First Book Anniversary!
This week a year ago, my debut novel for Harlequin Mills & Boon was published! The year has flown by so quickly between writing and my various day jobs but on another level it's been such a rapid learning curve. While I'm still a newbie compared to some authors, I know a lot more now than I did a year ago. I'd been writing for fifteen years by the time I was published in May 2022, and while I submitted to M&B every year, my deadlines and my writing schedule were at my own pace. Since then, with two consecutive two-book contracts, I've had to adjust the way I write slightly. Gone are the luxurious days of writing as much - or as little - as I want; now I'm much more focused on a daily word count of 1000 plus, whereas before I rarely did that in a morning's writing session, although I used to hit 500-800 words on a good day. It's still important to not sacrifice quality for the sake of quantity, and this is especially true for an historical author,