November 2019 Update

I'm not even going to make excuses for not updating in so long ... life happens. And if you want to know what's been happening in my life since August, click the 'Read more' link.

Work
Work was a bit up and down for a few months. I completed another ghostwrite for Eventide Press, and then they had nothing else for me, so I was focusing on social media and proofreading work. 

At the same time I was having regular meetings at the job centre about the prospect of me setting up my own business offering various services such as ghostwriting, proofreading, cover design and book PR. Honestly, it was giving me anxiety, and I ended up being signed off from work again. It's not that I can't work, it's that while I have on-going health issues, the prospect of setting up my own business (combined with other life responsibilities), was overwhelming.

Luckily, a few weeks ago I was offered a freelance position with HotGhostWriters. The way it works is that while I'm not contracted and don't earn a set amount a month, I am now on their freelance team and will be assigned projects as they come on, based on my preferences, with the eventual hope clients will start to request my services specifically. 

I have my first project and client, but it's all in the early stages yet. We're still braining storming etc. but I'm very excited to be in a position where I am getting paid to write novels (without all the headache inducing marketing that comes with it.), and can't wait to get started on my first assignment.

Writing
My own writing has also been up-and-down, for a variety of reasons. A mixture of time constraints (due to having jobs on), illness, and lack of motivations, means I haven't completed anything original/mine in some time. It's weird, I've technically written two novels this year, but they haven't got my name on them. And anything I can claim as my own is sitting in a half-written state on my hard-drive. 

I'm hoping this will improve, and that given time I can balance ghost-writing with original writing ... maybe I will focus on short-stories for the time being, so that I can get them done more quickly. 

And That's About All Really
There is other stuff going on (health and personal) but I don't want to blog about that publicly, so I will leave this update as a more 'professional' update.