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14 February 2010
The long and winding road!
At least that's how it feels to complete a new novel.
I'm busy at present working on the fifth novel in the Teacher series and it's a bit like a three-dimensional jigsaw with characters drifting into the action in Ragley village and then moving on with their lives. Being master of my own universe is a daunting task!
The current working title is 'Return to Ragley School' and I submit the manuscript to my publishers, Transworld, in the summer. Then the copy editors and the artist for the front cover get to work and, eventually, the sales team promote the book and a launch date is set. However, by then, I'll have started number six . . . so there's more to come!
I'm looking forward to meeting some of my readers during a mini-tour in the north next month when we shall be promoting the new novel, Village Teacher.
This includes talk/signings at Woodlands Primary School, Formby, Liverpool (6.30 p.m. 16th March); Parr Library, St Helen's (2.00 p.m. 17th March); Blackburn Central Library (6.30 p.m. 17th March); the Yorkshire Literary Lunch, Harrogate (2.00 p.m. 18th March); Waterstone's, York (6.30 p.m. 18th March) and Brighouse Library, Halifax (2.00 p.m. 19th March).
Also, I should like to take this opportunity to thank the huge number of readers who have emailed me via the contact page on this website saying how much they have enjoyed Village Teacher. It really does make it all worth while and I shall reply to every email as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I'm back at my desk with snow pattering against the window and making good progress with a few more gentle and poignant tales of village life thirty years ago, even though, on occasions, it does feel like . . .
. . . the long and winding road!
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To see the Jack Sheffield BBC Look North interview 09/05/07, click here.
To hear the Jack Sheffield Yorkshire Post radio interview 16/05/07, click here.
To read the Jack Sheffield Yorkshire Post article 18/05/07, click here.
To read the Jack Sheffield Yorkshire Evening Post article 10/11/08, click here.
To read the Yorkshire Life article March 2009, click here.
To hear the Yorkshire Post interview October 2009 at the Ilkley Literature Festival, click here.
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