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  Emma Batten Author

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3/8/2018

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I've been thinking for a while that I should start an author blog and now seems like the ideal time. I'm on the cusp of completing my fourth novel and starting my fifth. But First Maintain the Wall was finished in February and, by the time it reached that stage, it had already been read and checked by two good friends. Big thanks to author C.S Clifford for suggesting a point where two more chapters could be added and I am so grateful to my editor. Maud, for all her help with grammar, pointing out the phrases which are too modern and for her enthusiastic help with the scenes set in Wissant, France.
The novel is now with a professional proof reader and I am agonising on what to do about a front cover. Previously, I have taken my own photos. But this novel is based around the maintenance of the Dymchurch Seawall, which is now a slab of concrete and not at all what it would have looked like in 1758. I'm just going to have to get out there with the camera and have a go, or find another seawall which is more in keeping with the era. There's another issue: I can make my other novels sound interesting, but anyone asks about his one, and I say it's about looking after the seawall. I need to work on that; it sounds very dull! It's not! 
In the last few months I have joined Facebook, put the books on Kindle Unlimited (they were already on Kindle), done a book signing and an author talk, as well as a few craft fairs locally. The plan now is to do more promoting of myself and less writing, just for a couple of months, but I have started the next novel...
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