I finished my novel!

[phdlife]

I'm now doing a third draft, going back to patch all those bits where I wrote, "and then she jumped into her car and sped down the A-WHATSIT to Winchester" or, "she knew Jack would be drinking in the WHAT WAS THAT PUB ON THE CORNER OF GEORGE/ADELAIDE", and plugging a bit into all those chapters where the job interview, that's so crucial in chapter 15, was forgotten while I was taking care of babies, and then I'm going to be looking for readers, but all I can say right now is WOO-HOOOOOOOO!

[hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin]

ahem!

well done

Congratulations! Is it good?

Congratulations! I am in awe. Mine is still mostly in my head, and on various scraps of paper - where it has been for the last 6 years!

Really huge achievement, well done!

Is this your first novel? Good luck with the third draft and keeping my fingers crossed you find a publisher.

Congrats! Finishing your first novel is a huge deal!

thank you, thank you, I am really proud of myself - since starting it in 2007 I've had two babies and moved country and dh works two jobs so it has really taken some bloody-mindedness to find the writing time.

don't know if it's any good; it amuses me but so far haven't tested it on any innocent bystanders.

Oooh congratulations! It's a fantastic moment.

Can you complete this sentence: "Customers who bought phdlife's novel, also bought...."

"...gin"

I guess it'd be equally too flip to say, "my other (as yet unwritten) novels and that one non-fiction one I've got up my sleeve"?

okay, seriously, in my dream fantasy life?

they'd also have bought anything by Anita Heiss, Abigail Bosanko's A Nice Girl Like Me or Lazy Ways to Make a Living, or possibly Leslie Schnur's The Dog Walker though it's been so long since I've read the latter two authors I might not think that any more. Or possibly some of the Austen rip-offs, like Alexandra Potter's Me and Mr Darcy.

It's would say it was chicklit for mid-30s nerds - name-dropping books instead of shoes; running away to the country instead of the Big City. English as a Second Language for grown-ups.

An excellent question, btw. Thank you very much.

What an achievement. Congratulations.

From your comments on this forum, you've got a sharp sense of humour - your readers will be in for a treat! Well done and best of luck with the next stages...

Congratulations!