Jo/Jenny/Jennifer has bounced back from the idleness of the festive season resolving to write (a very loose definition, which extends to thinking about writing) every day, and has so far been relatively successful.
This month her main project has been with her Jenny hat on, working away at major structural edits for the second in her historical mystery series while waiting for the final edits on the first. As Jo she has been thinking about the next in the Jude Satterthwaite series and also book three in her as-yet-unpublished Evie Petteril series.
Book 11 in the Jude Satterthwaite series:
Anne spent the early part of the month writing critiques for the entries in a competition. That’s quite a demanding task and takes up a lot of the functioning editorial brain. However, she has now begun work on a fresh serial and lives in hope that that editorial brain will shortly let her know who the heroine is going to be.
Having finished editing Erin Cara, Jane is once again deliberating over whether to submit it to publishers/agents or to self-publish. As always, there are swings and roundabouts. During the latter half of this month, most of her energy has been diverted to keeping warm during an enjoyable but bitterly cold holiday in the mid-west of the US. Jane is now working on Kimono.
Kate is picking up the tangled threads of an unfinished novel and hoping they will untangle and reveal what the best structure should be. She submitted a 10,000-word cosy crime short story to a magazine.
Cecilia / Sheila has been editing for most of January and hopes to publish The Watcher in the Shrubbery (Pamela Prendergast 2) very soon now. The final editing sweep resulted in the characters eating a few less sandwiches than they originally did, though they were tempted by afternoon tea on at least one occasion.
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