A real blog

Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog. Well it really is a shameless effort to pre-promote my part written novel 'Mangrove Dreaming'. Just as a bit of a background, when I decided I wanted to try and write a novel, I felt that Broome was a natural choice for a location for my novel. I love Broome, I met my husband there, we fell in love and we married there. So it definitely holds memories for us.

The story of Mangrove Dreaming is one of love, friendship, growth and healing. It concerns Sam, who has moved to Broome to save her failing marriage, Tara, her older neighbour, with whom she forms an endearing friendship, and Caitlyn, Tara's niece, who has come to Broome to start her teaching career and finds the last thing she ever expected to... true love. Through the unlikely female hobby of fishing, these three women give each other the strength and support to face whatever life may throw at them.

I started writing 'Mangrove Dreaming' just under a year ago, and had grand plans of writing it in three months. Now it's a year later and I'm half way through chapter 8. Sometimes, I've written three chapters in nine days, other times, it's taken me three months to write one chapter, with life (moving house, back problems, two active kids under four) getting in the way of my original plan. Apart from that I have no real excuse, not even writers block as I have a full chapter outline of what happens in every chapter (there are 22 Chapters in total). Part of my motivation of putting my chapters on a blog, is if I know there is an audience out there waiting to see the next (hopefully) exciting chapter, then I will be more inclined to sit down and write more.

So please feel free to comment on what I've done so far and if you like what you've read so far, you have my permission to give me a cyber kick in the butt if I fail to deliver more chapters at an acceptable rate :-).

Hope you enjoy my story.

Love Kerrie xoxo