Holiday over – back to the writing desk

Our family holiday abroad is over for another year, but that doesn’t mean I’m back to the day job yet. I still have another 6 weeks off while school is closed for summer. A week of sunshine in Spain was lovely, especially since Belfast has been mostly rainy and grey in July. Some much-needed vitamin D worked wonders on my body and gave me a chance to have a reset.

I tried to have a digital detox too, but wasn’t especially successful. The lure of checking into my KDP and Ingramspark dashboards for sales and KU page read updates proved too hard to resist, especially when I had a few sponsored ad sales for The Blue Man, The Buddha’s Bone and Pseudologia Fantastica while I was away. Still, I did manage to limit screen time and reflect on 2024 so far, both good and bad, which really gave me the perspective I needed. We also limited TV time too apart from the little dude insisting on watching the Euro final. I also didn’t bring my laptop so I didn’t write at all for a week, though I got caught up on some of my reading.

This week I have been getting back to my manuscript WIPs and also tackling my TBR pile. After I finished all the holiday laundry, of course.