Update

I was going to delete this blog, but then decided it might be alright to keep. In order to finish the last chapter of my novel, my husband daughter and I went back to Lake Tekapo at Easter this year to fill out the geography of the story. Just as well. I had the river running the wrong way! But it was as fantastic a place as I remembered and I returned to the land of the long red dust cloud to finish the novel.

However, I'm teaching full time and we are moving house and i can't devote all my energies to it until the next Summer rolls along.

Nevertheless, I have made some changes to the novel on the blog, interpolations and a prologue and stuff. It reads much better I think and may even end up published. Who knows.