It seems that every time I write this newsletter, another tragedy has occurred somewhere in the world. I don’t know if I have any readers in Kashmir, but I do know that many, many people in Britain have family and friends in Pakistan and India, and if anyone reading this has been affected by the earthquake, my thoughts are with you. War certainly seems pointless when nature can inflict such terrible damage.

If I may turn to entirely unserious matters now, I really must apologise to all of last month’s prize-winners – you had to wait forever for your prizes, and I really don’t have an excuse at all. The time just seemed to evaporate – and even this newsletter is a fortnight late. I do hope that all the UK winners have now received their prizes, and the US winners shouldn’t have too long to wait. Once again, I apologise.

But – on the plus side – I have updated the George page at last, so you can see him enjoying what good weather we had. By good weather, I mean sunny and pleasant – not just hot. We can do hot – but it tends to be hot and a bit overcast. And I swear it gets hotter at night – that doesn’t seem to make sense, but it does. We are currently enjoying a bit of an Indian summer, though, so that’s good.

Well – we were, when I wrote that last paragraph, but that was a couple of days ago, and now it’s pouring everywhere. Never mind.

My US readers might be pleased to hear that I’ve received the proofs of the paperback edition of Unlucky For Some, so it’s one step nearer to being published. I think it’s due out in December.

I’m really sorry that the newsletter is coming in so late, but once again I will let this one run through next month, and I will try very hard to update the site during the first week of December.

Thank you so much for bearing with me – I hope you think it’s worth it when number 14 finally makes its appearance!

Love,
Jill

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