De-blog

Three blog posts in one day… There is a method to my seemingly sudden enthusiasm for posting, and it’s a one-off. Along with starting and never finishing stories, over the past few years I’ve been trying to come up with a streamlined, stripped-down layout for my website, the former incarnations of which had lots of pages and lots of content, but mostly it was duplicating what was available elsewhere. For instance, I had a page for the Hiding Behind The Couch series, but I also have hidingbehindthecouch.com , so that was pointless. All my books are listed – along with blurbs and purchase links – on Beaten Track, and then there are the pages and posts on this blog, and I thought… Work smarter, Deb. Which is why I’m posting about my forever-ongoing works in progress today. Twice. I mean, I have published other stuff in the time that Scene But Not Herd and Alumni – Reverberations  have been gathering virtual dust. See? Not as bad a writing drought as I thought! And I have a lot of ti...

Scene But Not Herd  is book 2 of  Front of House , a  Hiding Behind The Couch  The Next Generation  if you will. Scene But Not Herd  follows on from  Goth of Christmas Past  (Front of House #1). Draft blurb for  Scene But Not Herd : Amy is so done with people trying to organise her life. By people, she means her bossy older sister Fi, who insists she’s protecting Amy’s proprietary rights to her software, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. Meanwhile, Hadyn’s fallen into a black hole. Literally. Managing the studio is taking up all of his time, his hopes for pursuing a relationship with Amy are teetering on the event horizon, and his new songs suck. Krissi and Jay’s prodigies aren’t the only ones who are fed up. Krissi’s ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ is driving her nuts, Jay’s stagnating behind a desk, and virtual ice cream and swings just doesn’t cut it. Then there’s the not-small matter of what do about Stu…

Poor Josh has been stuck in the loft for five years. That's how long I’ve been working on Alumni – Reverberations . It’s part of the Hiding Behind The Couch series and started life as Alumni (Season 8). That was in 2017, after I published  Reunions (Season 7 – which ended with Josh bravely climbing that ladder), but for various reasons, I had to set Alumni aside. Even now, I can’t honestly say the end is in sight, but it’s a lot closer than it was, which is good news for Josh. OK, minor spoiler: he does eventually find a way down from the loft. I know because I wrote that part about three years ago. The trouble was, the further I progressed with this instalment, the harder it became…until I realised I wasn’t writing Season 8. I was writing a renaissance of Ruminations . At last, it all made sense. So here we are, five years later, and Alumni – Reverberations is still a work in progress. I haven’t decided on the final cover other than it being Ouija-board inspired. However, I...