Huzzah for DC Thomson!

If you could see me now I'm wearing such a huge smile it's hurting!

Came home to a lovely offer letter from DC Thomson for JOURNEY.

I put a bottle of champagne in the fridge...

And...

After all the work I put in to rewriting the manuscript I'm so glad. This was the first completed manuscript I ever wrote, a Regency romance. It was 2001. I was working in West London for a fantastic media company. But I was three years out of college, and all those started novels were bugging. Couldn't I finish a novel? Get past chapter 5?

It was hard, hard work. I have no idea what I was doing but I tried to tell a story and just keep writing. I reached THE END and couldn't believe it. The fat pile of printed paper when it was printed it out made it real.

Reading it again last year and it was shockingly badly written and utterly unpublishable. But I remembered that story I'd wanted to tell then. Had I the tools, with everything I'd learned, to write it now? So I rewrote the opening chapters and queried it with DCT, then they came back in November wanting to see the complete manuscript. Still in an unpublishable state I've been struggling with it until I finally posted it to them two weeks ago.

JOURNEY TO LOVE (working title), a Regency romance, will be published, I would think, as a My Weekly Story Collection paperback in 2006.