New Year Resolutions

I will get back to blogging and pray someone reads me, responds and generally persuades me it is really worth doing

I will find/make/borrow enough money to update my website so that it doesn't look as if I've only ever written one novel

I will get into Twitter

I will SO follow other people's blogs, tweets and facebook posts - slavishly

I will get to grips with my new phone and use at least 10% of its mind-blowing potential

I will silence the voice inside me that says all this is a waste of time - procrastination, even - and that I should be getting on with WRITING

I will agressively market my new novel A Good Time for Miracles * - buy it and read it, you scmuck, GRRR! - something like that??

I will diligently pursue a publisher for my third novel, Eleanor's Journey

I will crack on with the research for my fourth novel (which will be set in the Inner Hebrides) and have a plot outline and some characters in the bag by March and the first few thousand words written by June so that my annual holiday on the isles of Iona and Mull will be very productive

I will do all this as well as: coordinating a weekly youth cafe; leading a weekly church house group; heading up the writer's corner on the website www.thedreamhouse.co; writing weekly gems for my writing group and monthly meanderings for the church mag; reading monthly novels for my book group; interpreting dreams with my monthly dream group; having a go at the odd short story competition; raising money for the Life of Christ promenade play in Princes St Gardens, Edinburgh on Easter Saturday; organising stalls and exhibitors for a big Christian women's conference in September; making soup for the village lunch club; keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends, old and young; being a wife, mother, sister, grandmother and dog-owner; doing the shopping, washing, cooking, entertaining, dog-walking and babysitting; having a monthly muscle massage, six weekly haircut and a shower/bath at least once a month whether I need it or not (that last bit's to see if anyone reads this . . .)

Yes, this will be the year I become a SUPERPERSON . . . or something.

*available only for e-readers at the moment (from the e-publishing website link and also in the Amazon Kindle store) but will be out as a paperback soon.