Christmas is over, the New Year already begun and here we are on the
8th January, my umpteenth birthday, shared with Elvis Presley and, I dare say,
lots of other Capricorns. Everybody assumes that, because of my name, I was
born in June. When I was a child our milkman used to serenade me with the song “It’s
June in January, because I’m in love...”
I certainly wish I had been born somewhat apart from Christmas as I was
invariably given one present with the understanding that it was for Christmas and
my Birthday. Talk about losing out. Having said that, I’m a true Capricorn and
happy to be one. I also married a Capricorn and tend to get on best of
all with people of the same birth sign.
So, what will 2017 bring? Last year was pretty disastrous in so many
ways right up to the end and I’m still receiving treatment for two fractured
vertebrae in my lumbar spine. But, thanks to Books We Love, I’ve started
writing seriously again after a long break – I won’t bore you with the details
- swapping the artist’s hat for the writer’s hat.
I have a long saga in the
final stages of editing and then I can concentrate on my historic novel for the
Canada Brides series - “Veils of Angels” - set in Manitoba in the 1800’s and written with the assistance of a Canadian researcher. I've never worked with a researcher before so even this is a new experience.
The storyline is slowly evolving in my head and once I have the historic research
sorted I can get on with the writing of it. That’s such a challenge, but
how exciting. I love writing about mountains and snow.
My previous historic
novels have mostly been set in places I have visited, such as Patagonia where I
walked by glacial lakes and watched icebergs and glaciers, which inspired my
novel “To The End of the Earth”.
So, because I’ve never been to Canada,
I need to immerse myself in the research from my assistant so that I will feel I know it like my
own backyard – which is in France, by the way, down by the Pyrenees.
We’ve lived here for nearly 26 years and this is the first time our mountains
haven’t been blanketed in snow. The seasons, like my life, are changing. C’est
la vie!
JUNE [Gadsby]
Artist/Writer
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