Happy New Year to my wonderful readers. I wish you health, joy, love, abundance and safe travels. I can’t wait to get the last three books in the Madaleine series out to you and start on the Archard series this year. Thanks for supporting me over the last difficult few years. I can’t thank you enough x

Christmas is now over for most of us and I hope you all had the best day with whatever plans you had. I spent it with loved ones, we did a Secret Santa and I got some gardening things (which I suggested) to get me out of the cabin I had built in my garden where I do my writing in order to get more work/life balance. I used to love gardening, but after my hip replacement a couple of years ago getting up and down was too much trouble so that went out the door and with a second cortisone injection in my shoulder that hasn’t really worked its obvious I need to get away from the keyboard more often to avoid the aches and pains of sitting and typing for hours at a stretch. Looking forward to getting back into the garden and I might try pilates early next year. It’s been recommended by a family member, so I might just give it a go. Until then, I’ll plod away and try and get these Madeleine books done. Almost there, although I’ve completely broken all my deadlines. I wish I had an office full of people doing everything I don’t like, like marketing, editing, checking things over and over again, but of course there’s just me and my part time assistant who only takes care of my admin work but at this stage of a book, anything and everything helps. x

Just weeks away from Christmas now, yet it feels like yesterday I was putting our tree up with all the lights and decorating the fences and trees outside with solar lights so we don’t let the suburb down – there’s a competition every year where I live, to see who has the best decorated house and believe me, some people go all out. One of our neighbors even put on a light show, with their house pulsating with different lights from the top of the roof to the gardens with rock music. So many people came to watch it, the road was closed with people sitting and standing whereever they could. They’re busy putting lights up again, so I guess we going to have another light show. Anyway, things have been busy here and although I’ve done my best to get the 7th Madeleine book out, gremlins have once again been at work and allowed me to only put in a few hours a day. This is a big book, but its now down to 464 pages so I’ve managed to edit it quite a bit, but there’s more to go. These last four books in the series have a lot of endings and new beginnings, but you asked for it, so I’ve tried to do the best I can for Ryder, Madeleine and everyone in their lives. I can’t wait to finish this series so you can read it. x