Spring is here in Australia and so I’ve embarked on my annual ‘clean up my desk’ adventure. Don’t try this at home kids! These are highly trained professionals at work. They may make it look easy – but it ain’t.
My crime-novel-in-progress Burned continues to ‘progress’ well. I’ve been in a writers group with respected and award winning author Bill Condon for many years. But with the advent of COVID 19 our meetings have been curtailed. Bummer. But, Bill and I meet up online weekly and critique and discuss the manuscripts we’re currently working on. It’s been very productive and a lot of fun. And I still feel very connected with Bill. It’s funny. I’m not seeing him in person but we’re both still a part of each other’s lives.
The Highlands continues to be out there in the publishing world. Two considered no’s so far. The last publisher said my main character was ‘refreshingly and complex’ in an ‘incredibly readable’ novel where I brought characters and setting to ‘life brilliantly’. And still a no. Aah, crime writing’s a tough gig.
Stay safe and well.
Chris McTrustry 
Love reading your blog, Chris. And of course I am hopeful that your crime novel will get accepted and published to much acclaim. It’s a tough world in publishing, as you well know. x x
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Thanks Di. Yep. It’s a tough job but someone’s gotta do it.
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I’ve heard that you have your writer’s group accomplice chained up under your desk – no wonder you feel connected – and you use him for research when you’re writing torture scenes. Whatever works.
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He seems to enjoy it. Perhaps too much.
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