Following on from months of deliberation, I finally bite the bullet and requested that my publishing contract was not renewed. That's right, I'm going it alone!

I'm forever grateful for the chance to have my novel published and it's been a weird, wonderful, trying, amazing, dream-come-true time for me but now, I'm putting on my big girl pants and I'm taking control. I'm not going to mull over the whys and wherefores of my decision however, having self-published a series of shorts Tales for the Fireside - Five stories of love and friendship I'm pretty confident I can pull this off with flare.

I've now set myself the challenge of producing a second novel to capitalise on this new direction my life is going in and, I'm hatching a plot to publish a piece of non-fiction I worked on a few years back.

Life is changing. It's all good.