sooo - here we are in the lazy, hazy days of summer
I finally retired - a huge adjustment, and a move I wasn't ready to make - but I didn't like my schedule for the fall and at 71, after 32 years of teaching, decided maybe I should quit rather than suffer
so I have been alternating between a sense of freedom and did I make a huge mistake? I will miss the structure and the sense of purpose every day and of course the social aspect, "my coffee and my ladies" as a friend of mine put it!!
however, now I am a full time writer, a somewhat solitary life, no ladies, but plenty of coffee
I need to push myself to get out there and sell, that is the part of writing I hate most
CAPA magazine 'The Authority' did a good write up on me - I am moving forward with Murder in the Gun Room , I posted a new novella on Kindle 'She Should Have Come For Me' which got some very good comments
I have been reading several mysteries recommended by the Daily Telegraph UK as examplars of the tradition, Endless Night by Agatha Christie, On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill, Frost at Christmas by RD Wingfield, Operation Mincemeat by BenMacIntyre
so aiming for a schedule, but being seduced by Midsomer Murders!
