Believe in your Dreams

For the past eight years I've had a ritual, every new bookshop I go in, I find the place on the shelves for the W authors. I take a picture of where my book would go. 

I've done this while I was writing my first draft, while I was learning how to edit, while I was pitching to agents, while I was getting rejections, or worse, no response at all. I kept doing it while I entered competitions, after I found out I'd won the Good Housekeeping novel competition, after I signed my contract with Orion and while I was going through the pressure cooker of the editing process.

Today I did it for the last time before The Choice is released next Thursday. It was an epic moment.

​Dreams can come true. They might not be fast. They might not be easy. They might not be at all what you were expecting. But they can happen.

Believe in yourself.

Believe in your dream.

Keep going as and when you can. Take breaks, get help, abandon and come back to them. It's all part of the process.

I look forward to celebrating with you when your dream comes true.