DAISY CHAIN was one of five novels shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Award for a first novel written by someone over 60. I was thrilled to be in the company of many authors signed by big Publishing Houses.

have just read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. In 2018, Gollancz released a republished version of this novel to coincide with the author's death. It was originally written in 1969.  As expected from the talented pen of Le Guin, this Sci-Fi novel lacks guns, wars, and high tech, but is as fresh today as it was fifty years ago.

So you have a story in your head and you think you'll write it down. Exciting! About 78% of people have a story they want to write, but they never finish. So you've finished your manuscript! It's about eighty thousand words or more. That's good. That's very good. It's a book and ready to be published. But no book can be published without being edited. So here's the chain of command. First you edit, edit, edit. It's all in the edit. Next, you need a beta reader. That's someo