The very day I pretty much decided to abandon my novel as a ‘useful first experiment’, I got an email telling me I’ve been long-listed in the UK Novel Writing Competition!

Out of 3,112, mine has been selected along with 249 others to go forwards to the next stage of the competition.

So, yay!  I’ll find out if it makes the short-list in March.  In the meantime, perhaps I should put the novel back on my list of projects for later in the year…