August 2018 - still work to do!

Going abroad is a privilege that is all too easy to take for granted. During the summer holidays we are lucky enough to be able to go to new places as well as 'old' ones we have visited before.

This year it's Cyprus and as is often the case we are away for Lisa's birthday. It is so hot in Cyprus that even though I'd love to go to the (Cypriot) 'Valley of the Kings'; its just too darn hot!

The six week summer holidays is not a creatively successful time for me due to basically a lack of time; but whilst on holiday I often find a couple of poems threading through my head. 

The work on 'Voices in the Wild' is ongoing but at the moment I'm aware that there is not a surfeit of poems (at only around 50 currently) and it does start making me concerned that I'm running out of ideas!

September is not too far away and there are enough months still left in the year for this collection to have poems for every person to enjoy at least one or two! Please don't think that I'm a 'stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap' kind of creative; I'm not.

I'd always try to produce works that are of a reasonable quality, or at least the best I am able too at any one time, I strive to connect with and record a 'decisive moment' every time I put finger to screen; it is just that at almost three quarters of the way through the year an artist (if I might be so bold) would like to feel that anyone purchasing a collection of his would feel that it was money well spent and contained works that had some value.

Connecting with an audience would be great and I am acutely aware that I need to do something with my growing library of books that I have published. I have a full selection of my books in print and I need to find a few places where I can start selling them.

So if you know of a place or two that might be willing to take my work, please let me know.

Until the next time, keep safe and keep reading...

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