Re-read Book 1 this weekend. 📘
Still proud. Still obsessed.
A few lines might get a polish ✍️ because of course they will. 🔍
Question for published authors: does the urge to tinker ever truly fade? Or do you just learn to let go?
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The day job’s a bit less demanding these days, so in theory I can fire off a few books a year now. That’s the dream, anyway! 📚✨
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I started what has become High Five (Book 1) back in 2016 ✍️ It was meant to be one book.
Naturally it has turned into a trilogy.📚 📚 📚
Book 1 is finally done ✅.
Now to wrestle Book 2 into shape before it decides to become a five-book saga 🔍🕵️♂️.
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Tomorrow I’m working from home.
Spreadsheet open, manuscript open, mug of fake productivity nearby.
If my clingy mortgage-paying ex (aka the day job) wants me, it’ll have to find me hiding in cell S12.
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The waiting room is quiet. Too quiet. 🕰️
Redman’s tapping the table. 🕵️♂️
I’m going round in circles plotting Books 2 & 3 📚
Truth is, we’re both listening for news that may or may not come.
Pass the matches 🔥 And maybe a biscuit 🍪
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Redman can handle crime scenes, severed fingers, conspiracies 🕵️♂️🩸
Not sure he could cope waiting for a literary agent’s reply, that’s a real torture.
He’d pour another whisky 🥃, light a match, mutter: Cruel and unusual punishment.
Me? Same. Pass the whisky.
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Book 1: done ✅ Early chapters: out on submission 🤞🕵️♂️
Taking a breath, then it’s on to continuing the plotting for Book 2 📚
Redman’s not finished. Neither am I.
A few secrets left to dig up — and a few to bury deeper.
Onwards.
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Took a day’s holiday and…I think I’ve finished Book 1!
High Five finally has a beginning, middle and now an ending.
Early chapters are already out on submission 🤞🕵️♂️
Can’t wait for people to read the whole thing.
Hopefully that day isn’t too far off.
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Lunch break: 60 minutes
Plot wrangling: 42 minutes
Re-reading the same line: 15 minutes
Actual editing: 3 minutes (while brushing off crumbs)
Writing during lunch always sounds productive…until it isn’t
Might need longer lunches. Or fewer characters with secrets
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Rewrite of Act 3 of High Five is in full swing.
Secrets surfacing 🕵️♂️ Threads tightening 🧵 Redman’s running out of road 🛣️
The end’s in sight—but so is the edge.
Darkness 🌑 Deadlines ⏳ And one last severed truth 🩸
Time to finish what was buried.
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Wrote three words. Deleted four.
Blaming the heat, the humidity, and Redman’s refusal to cooperate.
High Five isn’t happening today - but stories wait. They simmer.
Once the air clears, the words will come.
They usually do.
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Weekend mode: activated.
Clocking off the day job, clocking onto the drama.
Redman’s brooding, Jenny’s missing, Mercer’s being cryptic and the glove’s back on the table.
Time to write like someone’s life depends on it.
(Spoiler: it probably does.)
📚🕵️♂️🔥
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My day job keeps interrupting my writing - like a clingy ex who pays the mortgage.
Truth is, I dream of writing full time and leaving the spreadsheets behind.
Until then, it’s stolen hours, late nights…and words hidden in Excel cell S12.
📚🕵️♂️🌈
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It’s true. I’m new here.
Just went on a polite little following spree…and somehow already racked up four blocks.
Unclear whether it was the severed fingers 🖐️ or the strawberry milk-producing cow 🌈 that did it.
Either way — strong start.
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15 years ago, Jenny Jones vanished.
His partner. His wife. Not that anyone knew.
No flight. No trace. No answers.
Redman was told to move on.
But now he’s in Kendal. Demoted. Watched.
And the past is stirring.
One murder at a time.
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🚨Big moment!
High Five—my debut crime thriller—is out to agents.
A glove of severed fingers. A dead programme. One operative unaccounted for.
Now DI Redman’s digging through lies, loss—and bodies.
Fingers crossed (unlike some in the book) 🤞
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🚨 First post.
Two names, one goal: unforgettable stories.
✍️ P. M. Saul — crime fiction: dark thriller, twisted, human.
🌈 Poppy M. Saul — picture books: joyful, rhyming, rainbow-fuelled, animals.
Just getting started — and all in.
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