The Countdown is On…

Passports… check

Tickets… check

Excitement… double and triple check (with so much brimming about.)

After months of planning, I’m all set to fly to Scotland to begin a research trip for my WIP – an historical novel. Without giving too much away, the story begins in a tiny mining village in Lanarkshire in the early nineteen hundreds before tracing the characters’ migration south to Australia.

I am out of my skin with excitement because not only will I walk in the footsteps of my characters, but in those of my grandmother and great-grandparents whose birthplace and history sparked a love of the story settings from which this novel-length work of fiction emerged.

I’m hoping my visit will give me a glimpse into the past, along with insights and a sense of place that book and internet research simply cannot provide. I cannot wait to see the simple things such as the difference in the light.

Stay tuned for updates. And, of course, photographs…