{"id":3123,"date":"2024-07-26T06:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2024-07-25T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:15:28","slug":"steady-as-she-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2024\/07\/26\/steady-as-she-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady As She Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been an odd week. The ebook edition of Girls’ Night Out<\/em> went on sale on Tuesday, and it felt like nothing happened.<\/p>\n

There were no interviews, no zoom calls, no signings, no hoopla, so it felt like a non-event. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard from some readers. One said that reading about Twinkle and her father reminded her of helping her own father work on his International Travelall.<\/p>\n

Another said that she thought Twink deserved, if not a book of her own, at least more stories about her.<\/p>\n

Someone else pointed out that there\u2019s a printing problem in the book. In passages where texts appear, it\u2019s not clear which person is which. I\u2019m told NY is working to resolve that issue.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019m hoping that more of you will give Twinkle Winkleman a try and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n

So what have I been doing in the meantime? Working on the next Joanna Brady book, By Reason of Insanity<\/em>, that\u2019s what!<\/p>\n

Over the years, I\u2019ve learned that the first twenty percent of any given book is the toughest part to write and the last forty percent is the easiest. So far in this instance, that has not proved to be true. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been marching steadily through the story at a rate of two to three percent a day. I\u2019m currently at 36.9%. (No, I don\u2019t get to count that as 37%. I\u2019m not someone who rounds up!)<\/p>\n

So if you feel as though today’s blog posting is giving you short shrift today, sorry. When a book is working like that, it\u2019s hard to pull myself away from it.<\/p>\n

After all, writing books really is my day job. Writing blogs is my hobby.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s just hope that writing the ending of this book is as fun as writing the beginning has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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