What happens the morning after...

Have you ever wondered what happens the morning after a novel gets finished?

I finished my fourteenth novel yesterday, with the same sense of relief that I had when I finished my first one! Something between 'Oh my God, I'm so pleased that's over' and 'Yay! I've done it again!

I text a couple of my friends who had been cheering me on, once I'd hit the send button, and the comments that came back were quite funny. My text said: Just hit the send button! Reply from said friend one: Congrats, I've got a glass on the go for you! Reply from said friend two: Good job. SSB or Chardy?

Well, clearly, the first thing that happens in my house is a glass of wine!

Not a bad spot for it.

Of course, the next thing that happens is I go to bed, all very wound up, and I don't sleep... So I usually listen to the radio for most of the night and get up at 4 am. Which is exactly what happened this morning!

But, if I hadn't got up at 4 am, I wouldn't have seen this:

Or this:

Today, I'm going to tidy up my office, which is in desperate need of such an activity and start to file all my notes that I've taken while I've been writing WITH INTENT - the third in the Detective Dave Burrows series.

Tomorrow, the planning for Book 15 starts. I'm tossing around titles at the moment!