Jacquelynn Luben's disorganised days, writing fiction and non-fiction, learning the publishing trade, cooking, gazing out at the garden - and doing a bit of office work too.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Turning over a new leaf?
1st July
I’ve turned to a new page on the calendar, and already it looks much busier.During the month ahead, there are two trips to London, a meeting of the reading and writing circles, a visit here from a friend, and lunch out at another friend.In addition, I will be seeing the physio and the consultant, on two different weeks.
Today, I ironed some shirts for the first time, and I’m washing up odd things, too, as well as making the evening meal.Tomorrow, I hope to take the OM to the station in the car, and go on to get one or two vegetables, etc, to supplement the on-line order.I sat out in the garden for a little while, and managed to add a little bit to the current novel, which I’ll type in later.The half hour walk is quite tiring, though.Goodness knows how I will cope when I have to move on to ‘power walking.’
Like all women, apparently, I'm multi-skilled and have a dual identity. As the little woman at home, I run my husband's business in an extraordinarily efficient way, typing, bookkeeping, dealing with telephone calls and chasing non-paying customers. But my other identity is far more interesting, as I've been writing for the past twenty five years at least, and have published four books - all very different. My fourth book, Tainted Tree, was published in May 2008, having won second prize at the 2007 Winchester Writers' Conference. My other books comprise a self help book dealing with cot death (no longer in print); an autobiographical slice of life, (The Fruit of the Tree) which also describes this event and other more lighthearted happenings in my life; a novella, A Bottle of Plonk, which bears no relationship to my life. This was also published in America by Virtual Tales, with the name, Have Wine Will Travel and is available from some sellers. I also have some short stories available on-line, some published by Untreed Reads (www.untreedreads.com).
My writing work is set out more formally on my web pages, which you can access at: http://freespace.virgin.net/jackie.luben
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