Slow & Steady Wins The Race

These were the first words I heard out of my editors mouth last night regarding my novel, The Purple Delhi Sapphire, the first book in The Temple of Indra Series. The next was Congratulations! The overwhelming joy inside me could not be contained. Commence the wine drinking!
Hopefully my trainer isn't reading this but it couldn't be helped. This book has been a long time in the making and it often feels like the snails are lapping me. However, after working incessantly finalizing the finishing touches I’m so happy to share it’s been chosen for the Editor's Choice Award. Love it!

I cannot wait to hold the final product in my hands and sign copies for all of you. Now it's just the final copy edit done at the Publishers - need to make sure the p’s and q’s are in place and hopefully this book will be hitting the shelves by the end of the Summer 2013.

Now I just need to stumble my way through all of the marketing. ‘Out of the pan and into the fire’ or so they say! Burnt Turtle anyone? 

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