Contracted to a new life!

Phew! What a week! It’s taken me until today to get my feet back on the ground and life sort of back in control.

Champagne all round πŸ™‚ Penguin Australia will be publishing my fourth book – title something like Β ‘Dangerous Truth’- Β in July next year. I’m looking forward to seeing where Ali Watts will nudge me this time as she works with me to polish the manuscript to a high gloss.

But why settle for one contract if you can have two! Β GW and I also have an unconditional contract on the sale of our rental property. So what? Well, that’s the first step in making our dream to live aboard a yacht a reality. It’s been fifteen years in the planning and execution, but by December GW, Zeus and I should be bobbing around in an inlet somewhere in North Queensland.

Some one still has to pay the bills so I’m looking forward to coming home from a hard day in the air to be greeted by home cooking, fresh laundry and a happy staffie πŸ™‚

Oh wait! My mistake, I have that already? Apparently???

No seriously, it will be a life change for all of us, but an adventure at least the humans are looking forward to.

Zeus? Well, time will tell whether he’s a salty old sea dog!

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31 thoughts on “Contracted to a new life!

  1. Congrats Helene, your dream is starting to come together! Wonderful! Zeus will be fine, though I also had a chuckle imagining him on your shoulder…then the ‘Dash-8’ parrot!! Funny lady, Cathy πŸ˜‰

    Can’t wait for ‘Dangerous Truth’….another definite winner!!

  2. Thanks, Sandy, still smiling:-D

    I’ve passed KC’s message on to Zeus and he’s looking a little happier – I think it was the lure of meeting her in person that’s done it!!

  3. WOOHOO!!!! Congratulations on the sale, Helene. Go you good thing!

    From KC: Zeus I’m not that keen on the boat either, but the thing is it means going to the BEACH!!!!!! And as you already know, the beach is the best place EVER. Especially if there are fish to try and catch in the shallows. So you lucky dog, maybe you’ll get to go to the beach EVERY DAY! As you’ll be the unofficial captain, get your Mum and Dad to come down this way and I’ll show you where I get my Mum and Dad to take me. It’ll be fun!! Whisker kiss. Whisker kiss.

  4. Living on a yacht. It sounds awesome. Will you have visitors as one cannot knock upon your door? πŸ™‚
    Another sale, Dangerous Truth. I think I like it already. lol. Congratulations. πŸ™‚

    All the best,
    Suzanne

  5. Jess, thank you for dropping by my blog and for spreading the word about my books!! Hopefully those empty shelves have refilled with more wonderful stories for you to read!

    And I hope your writing is going well??

  6. Thanks, Greg. I’m sure Ali would know you had a book out by now – I’ve seen Rotten Gods everywhere I fly!

    Glad you’re enjoying Burning Lies and totally understand research comes first!

    However clearly I need to write the next one with an even more compelling tempo so you have no choice but to finish it, to the exclusion of all else πŸ™‚

  7. Congrats Helene! That’s wonderful news about your fourth book. I can’t wait to read it! Since meeting you last month and finishing all your other books, I may have hooked another four or so people on to them πŸ™‚

    Good luck with the big changes coming ahead, they sound like a lot of fun. I’m sure Zeus will come around.

  8. That’s great news, Helene. I didn’t know Ali Watts was your publisher. She went very close to publishing one of my books 3 or 4 years ago and I thought she was really nice. I wonder if she knows I’ve got a book out.
    I am a mad boatie too, so totally understand your dream of life afloat. I hope it works out for you.
    Lastly, I am loving Burning Lies! Unfortunately essential non-fiction reading for research makes fiction time hard to get at the moment but I’m over half way and on fire to finish it, pun intended!!
    cheers
    Greg

  9. Hugest Congrats on your next book sale, Helene. That’s super wonderful!! I can’t wait for it πŸ™‚

    And even bigger congrats on the next step towards The Dream! I hope all goes well with those steps.

    Yeah! Celebrate well!

    Cath

  10. I can just see you aboard QUEEN ANNE’S REVENGE, slowmatch smoking in your hair, eyepatch, and Zeus on your shoulder………..

  11. Zeus? You’re on my blog complaining? You know you love nothing more than spending time in the water πŸ™‚

    But a boat, without grass, trees and fluffy white dogs to terrorise may be another matter…

  12. Yeah. Whoopie! I am so excited (in case you can’t tell by my face!!!!!!) Someone really needs to tell these humans that dogs don’t have webbed feet on purpose – which kinda means they don’t like boats or water. And THAT’s the dangerous truth!!!!!!

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