ERin's Up Close & Personal Selfie

Hello, and welcome to our latest Sunday selfie! 

This week we have been contemplating the new book covers for books 1 to 3 of our series. Yes, we are redoing the cover for book 1 which is already published. Whilst we all loved it, some criticism levied at it was that its relevance to the actual plot was not clear, I was not as prominent as I could be, and that it did not appeal to the younger target audience through action, colour and adventure.

As authors, these criticisms can be hard to take, and take on board, especially when so much artistic time and money has gone into creating the covers. 

But as time passes, and attitudes mellow, you can see through pride and discover that a book's cover can not just live in the mind and aspirations of the authors who live most of the time in their own world. As we buddhists know and understand, there is nothing that exists independent of anything else, be it a person, piece of furniture . . . or a book cover. 

So with that in mind, and the 1920s rose coloured glasses removed, we, Mrs H, our amazing artist, Craig Howarth, and I, have been working on a new action filled and topical cover theme for the first three books at least.

More will be revealed in due course, lets just say that the new covers allow us to map out the shape of adventures to come. 

This week's selfie is a head to foot shot, sans the middle bit. It was an inspired image captured last week with the aid of Mrs H. Here's looking at you, kid (fellow felines and humans, too!)

We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site. Or copy and paste this link: https://thecatonmyhead.com/

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

The Upside and Downside of Life

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday selfie! 

This week's selfie is brought to you courtesy of Ol' Ned, who awoke from one of his impromptu naps to see me checking him from above for signs of life.

His short naps are famous in these parts, mainly due to their length which often exceeds his working hours. Mrs H thinks that he mistook our advert for a sleep-in handy-person to mean quite literally he had to sleep whenever and in whatever was to hand. 

Thankfully all was well, and Ol' Ned was just dozing on his sofa under the window. Having got up to make Mrs H a cup of tea he set off on foot to fetch the morning papers from Mrs Singh's World Food Emporium, aka Upper Much-Mousing's corner shop.

After that we are hoping to make the best of the last of this week's sunshine, before more gloom and cloud and rain head in this afternoon. 

Spring is most definitely with us, and the early blooms are doing their best to fight off all the bad news in the world.

May your week bring you health and happiness, and may peace reign supreme in your world as well as ours.


We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

A Sunday Selfie, Lint Roller Not Included

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday! 

In a week full of bad news, anything positive, seems a real rarity.

And when Mrs H accidentally dropped a spanner across the battery terminals of our Vauxhall 30/98 E type tourer, things were far too positive. There was a shower of sparks and the spanner jumped a few feet into the air. Fortunately, no body, be it spanner, feline or human were any the worse. The battery is likely toast now, so Mrs H has bought a new one to be on the safe side. 

As the weather and Mrs H's tooth hole have shown some improvement, Mrs H, feeling a lot jollier, has tried to start on book 4 of our adventure series. But as I dictate the post for today, the dark clouds once more march across the sky, and it looks like more rain will spoil what is left of the weekend. I suspect it will be (another) Sunday spent laying on the bed grooming, napping and thinking of warmer, happier, peaceful days.

On the subject of work, here is my selfie. It was taken on Friday, and shows me at MY desk. I told Mrs H that great things happen at this desk and on this chair, and my naps are power thinking naps, rather than an opportunity to shed some hair on the chair's stiff fabric. To which Mrs H rolled her eyes and went to get the vacuum and lint roller . . . .

Whatever fluff your day finds you in, be it good, bad, or self inflicted, we hope you find some joy and warmth in knowing there is a lot of good out there. And if all that joy gets united, it can change the badness into goodness. And not just in stories. 


We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.