I am currently working on another edit of Split Decisions. As I have stated before, it's a very different book to The Owners and as such, I have kept it mostly under wraps. But the part I have just been working on is neither controversial nor contentious and I thought you just might like a little snippet, so here it is:-
I swallowed the lump which sat uncomfortably in my
throat. I was not a bitch, not the sort of girl who sniggered
behind another’s back at their stupidity and misfortune. I knew that about
myself but it was suddenly not enough – I needed Suzie to know it too.
“It’s not about you, Suzie,” I said quietly, searching
for the right words to say and unable to find them. Tongue-tied and embarrassed
I realised how the sniggering must have been perceived. I tried to explain. “I
was…I mean we were laughing at me, not…anything else.” I had been about to say
‘you’ rather than ‘anything else’ and managed to stop myself just in the nick
of time. But even though it was the truth it was a lame excuse. And we both knew it.
I have loved writing this book every bit as much as I loved writing The Owners but it has been nice to have a departure from sci-fi for a change.
By the middle of April I will be moving on to another book, one which is forming in the back of my mind at the moment, awaiting its chance to leap onto the pristine white screen as I type it out.
In the meantime - happy reading.
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