Yesterday I submitted the first completed draft of my latest novel, Ghost of a Chance, to my publishers (OUP). It comes in at just over 100,000 words but this will be reduced in the edit. I am (tentatively) pleased with it.
I have been looking back through my notes and see that I was at the same stage with Bad Blood on September 19th 2006. That seems like a long time ago, although interestingly my feelings on completion were very similar. It is a relief and a loss at once. It’s over… now on to the next book.