Hello and welcome to readers old and new

This is part two of the Macmillan New Writer blog. The first part was hosted on the Writingblock website, but due to necessity, I’ve had to move onto Blogger.

For those who are new to my blog, I reckon a short intro would be in order, so I’ve copied down the intro I gave way back in December last year...

“Dear (constant or unconstant) reader

I thought I would do a blog for my next book which I'm starting in 2006. I usually write a book every other year, but this year was spent on putting the "The Secret War" through Macmillan's tight drafting procedures. The next one with a working title of “The Burning Sands of Time", will be my first new book in over two years, but I'm sure I'll slip into it like a pair of old trainers - though this is not going to be a sprint, more like a jog to the finishing line.

2006 is going to be an odd year. I'll be writing the follow-up to a book that won't even be published until Jan 2007, and at the same time I'll no doubt be correcting proofs on "The Secret War" as well as being involved to some extent in the marketing etc of the book. In this respect I will be a first-timer, so it's going to be steep learning curve on writing, publishing, and being damned...”

For those of you who are interested, the link to the old blog is on the left there.

Anyway, hope you like the new blog!

Matt
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