Blogging is hard!

So i haven’t blogged in quite a while, sorry about that. Two reasons, firstly iv been swamped with work, everything from interviews and articles to chicken poxy children and summer hollidays! Yes. Its been hell in my home. And secondly, because blogging is hard!
I must have opened the application on my phone hundreds of times and my mind has gone completely blank. I could tell you what i did today? Ok here goes, i woke up, got out of bed, got washed and went to play with my kids. Whats that? You dont want to know what pictures my kids drew for me in what colour while telling me all about how they are going to be astronaut vets? Good, cos i have no idea what those scribbles are!
I could tell you about my new book? Ok then iv had a fantastic idea for a new book involving vampires and mermaids. I had the entire rough story within 24 hours and within one week i am ten thousand words into my first rough draft. But i dont want to tell you too much about that, except its a lot more adult which my first book Awake Again was before editing!
So… That pretty much leaves nothing else. And after pondering this issue for so long and eventualy thinking “i HAVE GOT TO post something NOW!” I decided to post about how hard it is to find something to post about! When i decided to go for it and get my book published i think somewhere deep inside i just assumed my life would magically change. But guess what, i still have mouldy toast inbetween my sofa cushions and my kids still throw up on me. Seriously??? Grass greener? This was NOT suposed to happen lol.

My point is i followed my dream and even though it might not have worked exactly as i wanted it to… Im no worse off 🙂 and thats always a bonus in my book! No pun intended

Confession time.

So in my last post I mentioned how much this promoting and marketing is taking it out of me and that I spent all day in my dressing gown and didn’t even brush my hair. The truth is, I spent all of today the same way and do you know what I did? Not a damn thing LOL. For day’s now I have been saying ‘Tomorrow I’m going to move the living room around and bleach the floor, hoover the sofa, antibacterialize the kids toys after throwing most of them because they don’t play with them!’ And still I have yet to see tomorrow.

It would seem it is not the book stuff that’s taking it out of me, I am just pure lazy. I need to start looking after my appearance now, nobody will want me to do a book signing if I turn up in stretchy pants and face paints! But let me tell you a secret. Come closer. Closer. 

I LIKE stretchy pants and face paints! SSSHHHHH Don’t tell anyone or it will ruin all of the credibility I don’t have! 

I have three children and the oldest isn’t even 6 yet, don’t get me wrong I would LOVE to turn up for school every morning to drop them off and look not only successful but awake! Instead of rice crispies in my hair and tea stains on my top, but it just isn’t happening. I am a mother therefore I dress like one. My shoe collection is fit to burst of lovely peep toe heels and boots, but I don’t even go out, so why do I obsess about buying them? ( actually I don’t have a pair of green shoes, hang on need to check eBay ^_^)

The point is that I may struggle with my kids and wake up thinking ‘is it nearly bedtime yet?’ and i may walk around looking like a zombie, and yes OK that jumper underneath my coat IS part of pajama set i have had far to long but can’t bare to part with, but i am also living my dream! A dream i have had for many years now, and it is only one of many. As well as writing i love crafts and singing and dancing, and i also love painting and decorating, trimming hedges, plastering walls, putting pictures up, wallpapering! you give me a task women aren’t supposed to do and i will tackle it with even more passion!

Don’t let anyone stand in your way, go forth and claim your place in this world with whatever it is you want to do. who says the stay at home wife and mother cant be successful? i sure as hell don’t! 

Book reviews, promoting and marketing strategies!

My head is in a fuddle right now, from writing a book and getting the publisher deal its been hectic with editing, learning to blog, remembering my twitter password!, organizing Facebook accounts, creating official pages etc. etc.

I was not cut out for this kind of thing and seriously it is taking it’s toll, my hair is un-brushed, I have been in my dressing gown all day, I was so tired when I woke up this morning I barely even had a chance to glance in the mirror before it was time to collect school uniforms and walk out of the door. And of course when my hand touched that handle ready to go my youngest peaked out from her buggie and said in the most beautiful voice ever ‘Mummy… baby pooey.’ and sure enough, she needed changing. Frustrated and tired doesn’t even describe how I feel all the time!

Want to know what else I feel? Absolute pride in myself for accomplishing my dream and fighting through the hard times. I used to say I had writer’s block when I picked up a pen and quickly put the entire project to one side, now I know I just wasn’t strong enough then to knock the wall down that hid the path in front of me. Now it’s down, and I smell roses! (When my daughter isn’t in the room anyway!)

My point here is guys that we all have dreams and although some people will try to put you down and say you are aiming to high you are the only person that can prove them wrong. I am standing tall, proving myself right and everyone that doubted me wrong and when I finally reach my finish line I will dive over it crying tears of joy and screaming ‘oh it was easy really!’.

How about you? how will you make it to you’r finish line? or will you just watch someone else take the self satisfaction from you as you whisper ‘it’s OK because their ankles look fat!’. 

GO GET YOUR HAPPY ENDING!!

I would love to write a book but…

The amount of friends that say to me “I would love to write a book but…” is unreal. The truth is it doesn’t take a genius to write a book. I left school with hardly any qualifications, and i have three children the youngest of whom is disabled. There have been hard times and it has been hard work but I have managed it. If I can do it anyone can do it! I can’t even explain how ready to burst I am with pride and excitement. If you really want to write a book then forget about whatever you’r but… is and get on with it! enjoy it, have fun with it, don’t worry and don’t stress about it just enjoy the feeling of you’r fingers gliding on the keyboard as you make you’r own story. I used to have a but… and now here i am doing my absolute best to help others accomplish what they think they can’t. 

Comfy bed

I don’t know about the rest of the world but it sure is getting harder and harder to leave my bed in a morning! Funny thing is i realised the other day that being an author now i really sould seem much more professional. No More lounging around in my PJs all day, time to start wearing nice clothes for the school run and trying to look decent lol, i need to actually leav the house to visit book shops and promote the book. I dont know if i have the energy for all of this and with three adorably annoying monsters its hard to look my best all the time! But i supose it will be worth it to have my dream become reality. Seems an awfull big sacrifice though LOL