Day 9: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 9 of 28:How I Write!

Day 9: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 9 of 28:How I Write!

My new novel, Blood Brothers, is to be launched on 1st October. This is day 9 of the countdown to the launch.  

So today, I'm panicking!

There is a lot of work to do before the new novel is actually launched. I'm in the hands of other people and that feels very uncomfortable - will we actually make the deadline?

The sad thing about this part of creating books is that I can't actually do much creative writing.  

There are too many other things going on around me.  

Plus my latest creative project is writing the script for a television play and I'm finding that quite unlike writing a novel! Yes, you do need a story arc - a plot - with a beginning/introduction, some challenges and obstacles to make up the middle and then some kind of resolution. But after that, I'm finding the form quite different. And for me, much less satisfying.

I fell a little in love with Jet, the hero of my first novel, The Wolf Project. With Blood Brothers, I am still a little in love with Julian. I shall only fall out of love with him when I start on novel three and that will be after I complete the play.

I write novels in great big, explosive, bursts of activity - around a 1,000 words a day.  These words then need to be refined and refined until they make some kind of sense. But the general thrust and where I want to go is usually there at the beginning.  Sometimes, though, the story and the characters just take-off in a new direction and to a new place that you didn't expect. The third part of Blood Brother changed completely after my content editor, bless her, first read it! That was exciting and I hope you enjoy the results.

So, for now, I go back to worrying about the timetable and doing what I can to get us there.  I hope you will stay with me on this journey!

Come back tomorrow for day 10!

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Meet Robert and Mary - They Are In For A Shock!

Meet Robert and Mary - They Are In For A Shock!

I have a new book to be called "Blood Brothers" that will be published shortly and here is some information about two more characters

"What exactly did he say again?" Mary Blond  was wrapped up in a tired, and very old, brown, dressing gown and clutching a hot water bottle. It was May but it had been a cold, overcast, day before it turned to rain. Her husband, Robert, sported a red and black striped dressing gown of similar age. He was getting a bit fed up - this was the third time he'd told her the tale. "He said the girls were safe in his care. He would drive them home and that he was looking forward to meeting us." They were both perplexed. Their daughter might admire pop singers but this would be first she had brought home.

In fact, Jenny had never "brought" anyone home. They knew she had been out in crowds that included boys and girls and that she had had a study buddy who was a boy. But they knew she hadn't considered him in a romantic light. As far as they knew, she had never had a boyfriend.

"Well, what did he sound like?"  Robert was getting the tiniest bit annoyed now - he had never had the kind of daughter who presented this kind of problem and his wife being obtuse was making things worse. "He had an educated voice, actually; I was surprised it was a very pleasant voice. He was very polite and well-spoken. Not what I would have expected at all." As he moved to pour his wife another cup of tea, the doorbell sounded.

What greeted him at the door came as something of a surprise. There was a very tall, slim young man with long, blond hair who appeared to be dressed all in white down to the white leather boots on his feet. All was topped off with a white fedora and he was enveloped in a long white fur coat. Next to him was a tall, blond, young woman in a very short skirt and bright red shoes.

You can meet the Glamerines at this link and Jenny

here

Here is a link to my first book The Wolf Project 

If you have questions or would like to receive future information about the publication of Blood Brothers please email info@wisewolfproductions.com 

Meet Jenny Blond

Meet Jenny Blond

I have a new book to be called "Blood Brothers" that will be published shortly and here is some information about another key character!

Meet Jenny Blond

Jenny Blond never was blond. No, she never was! Jenny Blond looked like a brown mouse, but she wasn't that either. 

Jenny Blond was bright, very bright and very determined. 

Most of all, Jenny wanted to be a long way from Middleton, her home town, and all that she had known so far!

Jenny lived in a very ordinary house in that very ordinary Midland's town. And this not very ordinary girl was getting ready to go and see the Glamerines.

Jenny Blond was studying for her A Levels and she was living a "nice girl's" life. 

She and her hard working parents lived in a shabby-chic Victorian end-of-terrace. I don't think they would have used the words shabby-chic to describe it though - in 1982.

It looked out over a lovely park and they had good neighbours. There was a friendly Sikh on one side and a retired shop keeper and his wife on the other. 

Jenny's parents, Robert and Mary Blond, were staunch members of their local Methodist church. 

And Jenny, herself? 

Well, she looked the kind of girl who suited her brown school uniform - it went with her mousy brown hair. 

But that was a little deceptive.

Jenny had no intention of spending the rest of her life in Middleton. 

She was studious at school because that could provide a route out. Her parents had expected her to be academic and she was, because she chose to be. 

She had her own small circle of very carefully picked friends and her one particular friend, Peggy. 

Peggy shared her greatest love and that was for Julian Justin and the Glamerines. 

Jenny had told her parents she going to the Glamerines' concert at the Crescent Stadium - it was half-term after all. 

This was the one and only time that year when the Glamerines would play a gig within easy traveling distance of Middleton.

Now, Julian's fans used to show their love by wearing blond wigs that looked vaguely like his chosen hair style – think David Bowie in the film Labyrinth and you won't be far wrong!

 Jenny had saved her pocket money to buy both her ticket and the wig. So had Peggy! 

They had put together their own version of the glamorous rock chick look, complete with shoulder pads. 

And, yes, Jenny now looked very different to her usual brown mouse. 

The lanky school girl was now a slim, good looking, young woman with a lovely figure.”

You can meet the Glamerines at this link 

Here is a link to my first book The Wolf Project 

If you have questions or would like to receive future information about the publication of Blood Brothers please email info@wisewolfproductions.com

Meet The Glamerines

Meet The Glamerines

The New Book - Blood Brothers - Coming Shortly

I have a new book to be called "Blood Brothers" that will be published shortly and here is some information about some key characters. 

Come with me back to the great days of rock! Oh, those marvelous bands like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.  And those other bands that managed to ride the wave right through the years to turn themselves into New Romantics and other incarnations. 

If you liked them, you'll probably remember the Glamerines and the gloriously handsome Julian Justin, their frontman. 

Great survivors were the Glamerines. As styles changed, they just rocked on, with the base and the volume turned up or down as the time demanded. 

They had a special look, with make-up that would have made a Paris model jealous.

Smooth as a peach and beautiful they were at the start of their set. Of course, two hours later, the black stubble was back again. 

On stage, once they started to sweat, they looked as rough and tough as their music required. 

And the lovely Julian, with a voice like wild honey? Well, Julian continued to look as sweet as their sweetest song and as strong as the prince in a teenage fan's dreams. In the early 80s, how the little girls loved Julian!

In a dressing room with the Glamerines, you could almost smell the testosterone, despite the make-up. Strong, beautiful and very masculine were the Glamerines - and Julian? 

On-stage, he loved and was loved by every woman. Off-stage, the girls still loved him, but Julian didn't quite return the affection. 

As for the rest of the group, well, they made excuses for the off-stage Julian; fey, but not gay. Of course, not gay! 

There he was their wonderful, six foot two, slim but well muscled, streak of silver; so powerful on stage with his beautiful long, blond hair. 

So here they were on a Monday night, about to play a sold out gig at the Crescent Stadium; on the outskirts of Birmingham, on the road to Middleton.


And they have a problem!

You can find out about anothe character, Jenny Blond, at  this link 

Here is a link to my first book The Wolf Project 

If you have questions or would like to receive future information about the publication of Blood Brothers please email info@wisewolfproductions.com