The Prologue

A new blog and this is likely to be the longest post.  This blog is dedicated to my writing and publishing adventures hence the nod to my literary namesake in the title.

So what have I got to say in this first post.  I guess it should be the story so far and I apologise if you've been following the personal blog and heard it all before many times.

In April, I decided to publish some Kindle books to raise some money for my chosen charity.  Taking some of my cross stitch designs, I went ahead with three titles:

  

Following those, I put together an actual book through CreateSpace which is now available through all Amazon channels as well.  Anywhere you can buy the Kindle books, you can buy the book.

I couldn't be more pleased with the results of either - they look great and I'm promoting them as much as I can without driving everyone mad. The promo copies of the book arrived and I'm over the moon with them.

Next came the Union Jack Beanie on Kindle, a specially formatted pattern for Kindle use which also gives instructions on how to use the intarsia colour blocking technique:

The next thing was to build a website, julietfoster.co.uk, which I did using free resources, especially OpenCart which I can't praise highly enough.  For an open source application, it's unbelievable and saved me having to remember the coding skills I've all but forgotten!

Everything I sell on there is completely for charity.  Anyone who follows my personal blog will be aware that I'm wondering whether I should make that less apparent.

Next onto the website was the writing.  Two short stories are up there right now on the Free Stuff page.  Meter Man and Journal of a Cat of Leisure by Foobyevsky.  

Writing is my lifelong passion although by now you may have already deduced that being creative in any way I can is what drives me.  I'm working on a novel and a collection of short stories at the moment.  Which is published first will be determined simply by which is finished first but something will be out very soon.  My writing goes under my chosen name of Juliet McHugh for myriad reasons that are really irrelevant unless you're me!

What I write is mostly fiction, some poetry and occasionally limericks for a bit of light relief.  The fiction will be out long before I'm ready to share any verse.

I'll post updates about what I'm working on and how it's going on this blog and via Twitter (@fdbyjf) and on the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FDbyJF and sometimes on the website although this blog feeds into that and I must stop duplicating information on there!

I hope you find something you like among my creations!