I write both fiction and non-fiction, and whilst I'm happy with where I'm at with my non-fiction work, I feel it's time for an overhaul of my novelettes. For this reason I have unpublished Snapshots (my collection of novelettes) as well as an individual novelette, Love You and Leave You. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with Love You and Leave You - it's the only one of my stories written in a diary format, and I'm not happy with it. I'll let it lie for now and see how I feel next year.
I'm currently re-reading all of my stories. So far I think each one of them could do with a tweak (some more than others). It's funny how your opinion changes, isn't it? At the time of release I believed each story to be the finished article, but is a story ever really finished? You do have to stop somewhere of course, but even so, I think a revamp is in order. I'm going to look at the covers again too.
I've also been wondering whether to keep the pseudonym, Helen Libby. I haven't got the answer to that yet. I did want to keep my fiction and non-fiction separate, hence the fact I currently publish non-fiction under my real name, Helen Edwards, keeping Helen Libby for the novelettes.
I'm going to be a busy bee over the coming months. As well as looking at my older works, I've got a new novelette which is due to be edited soon. I hope to get that one out before Christmas, along with an updated version of my first novelette, Out of My Debt. But back to the newbie. For a long time I have been calling it This is Me, but now I'm thinking of calling it Remember Me. It's about a woman who loses ten years' worth of her memory, and who can't remember her husband. That said, there are some other books (films even) out there with the same title, so maybe I will change the title again.
I'll update the other novelettes in the New Year, and then I'll re-release Snapshots.
As for my non-fiction, I'm still promoting All About Archie: Bringing Up A Puppy, and I have written a sequel to it, which I hope to release in the New Year.😊
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with everything I want to do - all my ideas - but for the most part it's exciting. I've got this opportunity to make some changes. Maybe some people will think it's radical, but it just feels right.
Until the next time.
Helen x
