Topic: what I'm up to
Hello to you all,
I have been absent for a little while...why? Well, it's been too cold to type and my fingers are frozen......why? No. It isn't summer here, it's winter....why? Because I'm in Holland, not Australia. Today it is well below zero outside, minus 10 overnight but I fib when I say my fingers are frozen because here the houses have central heating and we are toasty warm when inside. We do have to rug up very warm to go outside so as not to freeze.
I had planned to do some work on my novel while on holidays but there is a constant que for the laptop (my daughter is looking over my shoulder as I type even now!) and face book is foremost in my oldest son's mind. So I have been thinking it out instead. I think I have made quite a bit of progress in my head (that's saying something isn't it). I have a few new ideas for picture books that I will focus on when I get home.
A highlight of the trip (there have been a few) was reading my Potato Music story outloud to an audience for the first time, not that the audience was all that important but the main thing was that it was for my Opa's 90th birthday as his present. The story is about him and is based on a true account of something he did in the second world war. This story doesn't have a release date as yet but is being published by Omnibus Books, I'm not the illustrator for this one which is certainly an interesting journey for me. There were few dry eys amongst the aunties and I even struggled to read aloud, it was very emotional. My mother is the second oldest of twelve children so it was a big gathering.
I'll be home soon so it is a good thing I love my job and am quite keen to get stuck back into work.
Have a fantastic 2009!
