Ups and Downs and Silver Linings… Oh My.

Hello Readers,

A lot has been happening in my world lately. My partner and I have recently moved house. She hates that word by the way – ‘Partner’. She says it sounds like a business relationship – wants me to ‘make an honest woman’ of her. But I have digressed… we had our old place on the market; the sales market is slow, so we switched it to a rental and now have tenants in place. We are still trying to organize the new place. It’s much smaller, so we have had to refurnish and get rid of a lot of stuff.

I’ve also been out and about, exploring my new neighbourhood… and I’m loving it! I’m living in a Brisbane suburb called West End and it is really diverse. A crazy juxtaposition of new and old, rich and poor, shabby and chic. This makes it really interesting. There is so much to do here with all the transport options, cafes and bars, markets and communal gardens, the museums and theatres, thrift shops and second hand book stores, the list goes on…

In my day job I manage a team,  but we’ve all been told our jobs are being made redundant. I’ve been trying to support them through this and manage my own situation at the same time. Luckily I am a glass-half-full kind of guy, and as much as this is changing my life as I know it, I’m looking for the opportunities that come from these changes and encouraging them to do the same.

On the writing front I have been trying to maintain a presence at my Writers’ groups and critique the submissions that go hand-in-hand with them. All the change has taken a bit of a toll on my creativity though. With so much going on it’s been hard to knuckle down and write. So I took the opportunity to dig out an old book I was working on. One I finished a few years ago and never got around to publishing. It’s a non-fiction title that has been sitting on my hard drive collecting virtual dust. It’s a guide to self-publishing, but the longer it sat there the older the information was getting. Now I have pulled it off the drive, done an update to ensure the info is relevant and published it. Until things settle down a little I’m not sure when I will get back to the fiction titles I have been working on. I have started running a new ad for my ‘Blood Rage’ series and I’ll see how that goes as time ticks by. I’ve also pulled a couple of stories down from KDP select (which made them exclusive to amazon) and I have now published them across multiple channels.

For those that follow my blog, you may (or may not) have picked up that I’m a bit of an art lover. Well, West End is full of art, hopefully it will start to stimulate my creativity again. Anyway, while on my explorations I have been taking some photos and I thought I would share some with you. Here they are, enjoy!

Allan Walsh writes Fantasy and Horror. If you’re looking for something new to read in these genres, why not check out his books here. You can also find his titles available in some libraries. 

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