19. Sparrow and the wolf boy.

"She was pelting down the cove bootless, looking as she ran into the grey, rain-speckled water. Some unknown instinct was driving her onward and telling her that the answer was in the lake.

Dread made her breath catch and her palms sweat. Her heart was beating in her ears. Tella was moving so fast that she almost ran straight into Izac, he stood petrified at the lip of the lake. A black wolf lay next to him growling at the water. The boy was nonsensical with hysterics. He screamed and pointed to the shallows, mumbling between quiet, broken sobs, “I can't swim, I can't swim...”" 

From chapter nineteen of Tellan. 

xx 

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas, happy new year and all that. Although belated, I genuinely hope it was amazing!

I spent one very busy december in my home town with my parents and my sister eating far too much food, riding horses, writing and just generally faffing about in the sun.

I am now back in Dunedin, horseless and ready for the rest of summer (if it makes it this far south I am currently taking shelter indoors from a tempest, wrapped in a blanket with a book, and a coffee, and a cat.)

I've spent the last few months trying to get the second book finished. I know my beta readers really want to read it, so i'm trying my best to make that happen asap. It's a little longer than Tellan, and a little grittier I think... but that's a good thing.

It's nice to see the two books side-by-side on my desktop.





I cannot believe that it is 2014 already, five minutes ago it was 2011 and I was working for a circus in Canada... but cool, a new year and lots of things planned. I don't make new years resolutions because I tend to make them every other month, but I do have some new years projects that I am working towards. Obviously my second book will be done soon, so thats one. We also have been thinking of making a short sort of promo video for Tellan, Its aim will be to evoke a mood, no dialouge or shots longer than a few seconds, just a real quick flick for a bit of fun. This will be made possible by my mums drama students and the slew of people I know with good cameras. Obviously I will keep the world posted on the progress of that one.

xx