Perhaps the only good thing about a wading through treacle day is that, by comparison, whatever follows has got to be better!  Yesterday I managed to make some small but significant changes to the site and send out the invitations to my book launch.  It won’t be a glittering affair – no celebrity authors and their A list friends – just a get-together for friends and people who have helped me with the book in various ways, but it’s still quite a milestone.

Writing a book and getting it published is such a longwinded process that it becomes an end in itself and the final product – the book – becomes less and less a reality.  But inviting people to a party to celebrate makes it more real, as does realising, as I did last night while chatting on the phone to a friend, that the book is published next week!  It’s been in the dim and distant future for so long it was a shock to realise it will soon actually exist.