The words “THE END” at the end of the first draft of my fifth Dr Cora Lael crime-thriller.

A screenshot of the bottom of my first draft document for Cora Lael Book 5, which shows 385 pages and 95,388 words.

It’s DONE!

The first draft of #CoraLael5 is written - 95,388 words and 385 pages.

Can I sleep now, please?! 😴

#BookSky #CrimeThriller

My hand-drawn Post-It note to celebrate passing the sixty thousand word mark on the first draft of my fifth Dr Cora Lael crime-thriller, which publishes this November. The drawing on the tiny square sticky note shows a happy snail with a multicoloured shell, upon which the figure “60k” is formed. The snail is saying: “Yeah, baby!”

It’s a biggie!

My #HandDrawnPostIt to celebrate passing a significant milestone in this first draft:

60k words written on #CoraLael5!

🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

#FirstDraft
#AmWriting

A screenshot from the cover reveal special of my weekly Facebook Live show, Fab Night In Chatty Thing, showing me in my Tiny Office, holding a printout of the cover for my fourth Dr Cora Lael crime-thriller, The Deadly Echoes.

Hi lovelies, I’m afraid there’s NO #FabNightInChattyThing tonight - I’m on a scary deadline writing the first draft of #CoraLael5 so I need to write!

But catch up on the cover reveal special for #TheDeadlyEchoes (with exclusive first chapter) here: www.facebook.com/MirandaDicki...

My notebook lying open on a coffee shop table beside a large cup of coffee. Planning notes for my fifth Dr Cora Lael thriller fill the pages, with green post-it notes stuck on the pages and a Bic biro resting across them.

And so it begins… 🤫

#CoraLael5