My most recent story, The Duskwood Ribticklers, has been the
most complex I’ve written so far. The first draft dates to January this year,
and the manuscript has endured many tweaks until its publication ten months
later. Even the cover took many major revisions before I was happy with it... the selected cover was version number 11.
The Duskwood Ribticklers’ complexity is due to threads linking out to other titles, including these currently available stories: Tingle Toes, The Bushgreave, The Oakmere Grynfang, Bristlewurm, and Meet Chompy.
Links to future stories include: Trembleknees, Don’t Feed the Ferrets, Rogue Kitty, and Night Strife.
Some links will be clear and obvious, others a little abstract; however, it was important for me to ensure consistency in timelines and locations before committing the final manuscript of the first edition.
The Duskwood Ribtickers centres around friendship and explores
the sensitive subject of abuse and how it can manifest different symptoms
within victims.
This tale is available in both e-reader and print format and
will be included in the upcoming paperback ‘Mayflower - Collection One’, which includes
the first three Elise Mayflower stories: Tingle Toes, The Bushgreave, and The
Duskwood Ribticklers.
Elise Mayflower now gets a well-deserved rest after her three
‘bean-grinding’ adventures… but my own rest doesn’t start until next spring because
I’ve two more stories to complete during the winter, and these are: Rogue Kitty and
Don’t Feed the Ferrets.
