I came back from holidays on Wednesday and got straight into copy edits for THE GAME CHANGER. I completed them this evening. The journey of writing this novel has been an emotional one and there were moments when I despaired if it would ever get close to the aspirations I had for it at the start.
A friend of mine read it last week and loved it, and then the copy editor used words like magnificent, gripping, absorbing, compelling, terrifying, saying it was a tour de force, and that love, suspense, atmospheric backdrops, the effects of psychological trauma, and a mesmerising plot, added to it being brilliant. Don't worry, none of this has gone to my head, and like most writers, I will still worry about writing it better, but the end of the process is near and that is emotional.
And, here is the opening quote of the novel ......
"When we step into the family, by the act of
being born, we step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has
its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we
have not made. In other words, when we step into the family, we step into a
fairy-tale."
G. K. Chesterson
Louise
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