People Watching is legitimate research !

People watching is finally a legitimate excuse since I'm intending not to base many more characters on people I know. I may use a few from time to time but its time to watch and translate actions to the pages.

By sitting quietly sipping a mug of steaming coffee and just watching the world go by, plenty of interesting characters walk past. Watching their actions, the way they walk, act around others gives me food for thought and an abundance of ideas and characters to fill the pages. Ive even started to take description notes to remind me at a later date of that person and what made them stand out.

Now Im not taking about particular groups of people, just those everyday normal types that sometimes walk about with their heads down, trying to get through the day invisible from one minute to the next. Those are the kinds I like to spot, to watch how they get by, the kind of characters I need for the next few books. Their actions and manerisms will add depth and thats not a bad thing ...

It all helps !

New Book

Finally "All For Her" is out an on the imaginary shelves that is Amazon. Its been a long journey with this one, through many guises, three name changes, two format changes and at last count about 15 actual documents...

But its finally here - now its another kind of journey - waiting to hear what people think - daunting

Anyway its set 6 years after "Left Behind" and follows the continued lives of Steven & Sandy,

There maybe a third book further down the line from a completely different point of view, time will tell. For now enjoy ! 

What's in a Title

Well everything apparently!

It's easy I hear you cry but its not !

I always start by trying to come up with something that covers the story and the characters which is not as easy as it sounds and as I've learnt recently what fits it at one point might not fit once its rewritten. The cover above is for the book I hope to publish in the next few weeks and its had 4 different titles.

I've been writing it as a follow up to "Left Behind" for about 5 years. In its first years it was called "A Forbidden Dream" because the story focused on one particular aspect. Then after a major rewrite and re focus it changed to "The Hell Within."

Then the reviews werent favourable as a straight line story for "Left Behind" and it changed to a story centering around a conversation. Since this one follows, I had to change and update to the same format but still focus's on one aspect and I left the title as "The Hell Within". Again although most reviews were favourable the title wasnt, leaving me with an issue.

Its had the same title for around three years and I've been attached to it, but now it didn't work

Between Wendy and I, we went through many conertations, settling on two. Her Precious life and All For Her.

I couldn't decide so I took both to the next level and researched them. This included checks on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and finally Google, to check for other books of the same name, or any that are close and any organisations that are close to or use any of the titles.

Immediately Her Precious Life was ruled out since Precious Life is an anti abortion organisation in the USA and this stories not about anything to do with that

So, "All For Her" it is. Fingers crossed its the right choice