Updates

Many thanks to all those who contributed to my November online book tour for #themfeltwellboys. Some of their reviews are posted on that book’s page here. And while you’re visiting my site, if you haven’t already done so I’d love you to join people from around the world contacting me directly by signing up for my free quarterly newsletter at the foot of the home page.

This year has been one of major personal losses, making it harder sometimes to see the truth in my mantra ‘Every day is a good day’. But an adage isn’t just for Christmas, so I hold onto it and here focus on what I can to some degree control. Approaching halfway in my first five-year publishing plan as an independent writer, so far I am at least meeting its production goals (never mind the quality, feel the width). My young adult football fantasy adventure novel ‘Seventeen’ in 2021 was followed by adult contemporary ones ‘Them Roper Girls’ (2022), hotly pursued in 2023 by ‘Them Feltwell Boys’. The plan is for a change of genre next year, with ‘Memories of a Fenland Boy: The Sunny Side of the House’ (the first in a series of memoirs of which I already have three more largely completed in first draft), before a return to fiction set either in our world (‘The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine’ perhaps) or my own of Cibola (‘Joe Kingmaker’?) in 2025. We shall see.

My glass is heavy with blessings, may yours be too over the coming festive season and into the new year.

All the best, David.