OUR Situation - Homeschooling Official Day 1

I realised this really is OUR pandemic. I wrote a tweet about how my newest book is inclusive of OUR current situation, and that's when it hit home with me. We really are in this together as an entire planet. And through my fiction I can use it as a sort of real-life diary. But I want to fictionalise the pandemic as a way of also escaping from the real-life panic, now and then.

At the moment I'm also keeping a private journal which basically turns into a memoir the very next day.

But at the start of this horrific pandemic I thought there'd be no way to keep writing fiction. I felt afraid and hopeless. As the days pass though, there are not only more deaths and infections, but there are actually positives. And I've had to allow myself to relax into those positives, in order to keep my sanity for my children and loved ones.

Life is carrying on, albeit at home.

I'm just glad I can escape into my fiction writing now. And the book I'm currently writing is the last in the Superduper Trilogy. It's going to be titled Supernatural. Book 1 is Superstellar. Book 2 is Superpower. Book 3 is Supernatural because originally it was going to be a fun one-off novel titled: Vampires From Mars. There will still be vampires from Mars in Supernatural, and I will be able to include our real life pandemic.

Unfortunately, the reason I'm so panicked most of the time is because I don't have the healthiest lungs. I smoked for ten years when I was younger, and I got infected with bronchitis in my 20s, and that stays in the lungs. Sadly. I pretty much always have a cough at night. And right now I've got a cold.

I'm also a key worker and I'm hoping my books will start to sell viably so I can give something to the cause towards stopping this virus. I do see rich and famous celebrities on social media boosting spirits with songs and stuff. It's a fun distraction sometimes. But I haven't yet seen any of them giving actual money. I'm sure there must be though.

Got to just take this day by day. Stay at home. I'm homeschooling my kids. It's Monday so we will be working all throughout the day on school work through till Friday. I have studying to do as well, qualifications for my key worker job, on top of working from home.

Better get to it! Blog you later. xx

Superpower is available in ebook and paperback now. It's also currently being produced in audiobook for download on audible.com and more.

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