We're off!

We're going away tomorrow for 10 days!
I won't have access to the internet, so no blogging! But plenty of writing hopefully ...

What's in a Name?

I can't quite decide on the title for my coming book.
I thought I had settled on Depth Charge, but now I'm not so sure ...
The plot revolves around local government corruption - specifically round closure of a swimming pool.
But the main theme of this one is families. The real flesh and blood kind as opposed to the alternative 'family' of the Nirvana community ...
I'd like somehow to combine the two in the title. The obvious choice would be Thicker than Water.
Unfortunately this has already been used.
Several times ...
Hmmm. Any suggestions?

new(ish) news

I've been invited to visit the Dulwich Library Readers' Group on 29th June. It's my birthday on that day so I'm cravenly using that in the hope they'll go easy on me! I've never done a session to a reading group before - previous readings have been at my launch party and at Vox 'n' Roll sessions. I'm assuming a reading group will be much harder to please ...
Meanwhile it feels very strange going into the library doing the usual book borrowing/returning thing and see my name on a big poster - while simultaneously being aware that the person stamping my book has no idea that I am she! I could of course sieze the opportunity to say, 'Do you know who I am?' but that's hardly my style ...
Fortuitously, I'm going to a Society of Authors seminar on giving readings on 15th May.
Between all this, setting up complex spreadsheets to check G's wages for last year (they're wrong!), organising dad's return home from hospital, (thinking about) doing last year's accounts, preparing for Joe's SATS (bah humbug!), blogging etc, there's notalotta time left over for writing. Nevertheless, Depth Charge is crawling along ...