Yee-haa!

I'm thrilled to say that after many hours of being glued to my laptop, muttering to myself, I hit the "Publish" key today!

Yes, the first of the Best Friends Forever series should appear on Amazon (the Kindle shop, I mean) by the end of 2 September.

Isn't the cover great? It's by the wonderfully talented Nicole Hein. I feel lucky to have found her. The cover shows Louise (one of the 'best friends') who cuts off the pony tail of the mean girl sitting in front of her... and then feels very bad about it.

More later!

Cheers
Cathy

Unamericanising

Things are slowly coming together. I'm too excited to sleep! The cover of Louise and Melinda - the first in the Best Friends Forever series - is nearly done, and illustrator Nicole Hein has done a wonderful job with it.
But what I've realised today is that I have to go back and 'Unamericanise' the whole story. Yes, the American vocabulary and spelling must be whipped out again, and the original UK-based language must be put back. In other words, I have to take out all references to 'sidewalks', 'cookies' and 'fall' and replace them with 'pavements', 'biscuits', and 'autumn'.
There is a long, boring reason for this... And it's okay. I'm not entirely comfortable with 'gray colors' after many years of being used to 'grey colours'.
Onwards and upwards! Publishing day is creeping closer.
In the meantime, I'm posting a book review or two. I've had fun re-reading some old favourites. (That's 'favourites', not 'favorites', right??)