Hello everyone,
I am writing this with a very small baby on my lap in a rare moment of calm. I am reaching over her sleeping head to the laptop so forgive a) brevity B) typos, as it’s blimming hard to type this way!

Our gorgeous daughter Cora Francesca Handley was born a month ago, 2nd October, and she is totally beautiful and wonderful even if she doesn’t understand the difference between day and night and thinks 12am - 5am is the ideal time for yelling, waving fists, wanting feeding, etc. Hey ho. We are all very happy. The photo is of her yesterday asleep…. so rare.

In other news, HAPPILY EVER AFTER is out on 19th January 2012 (here’s the amazon link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Happily-Ever-After-Harriet-Evans/dp/0007350260/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320350932&sr=1-1 )

HarperCollins have done a great job of kindly putting up extracts for y’all to read so hope you’ve enjoyed them. Please do let me know what you think of them on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/harrietevansbooks There’s also a competition to win proofs of the book (See the competition page), where you have to email your worst work moment to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) I had many many awful moments when I was starting out as a secretary in the world of work. I was terrible, very disorganised, and though I loved working in publishing, and loved talking to authors and discussing books, I also made many mistakes. One of which is in the book, the others are too embarrassing to include!

Finally, I’m really sorry if you’ve emailed and I haven’t replied to you. It’s just been a bit crazy. SO I hope to use my maternity leave to get round to replying to them all! Because it’s so incredibly lovely to hear from you, and I’ve enjoyed it so much, getting an email from someone is the best so I feel even more rubbish not to have replied.

Anyway the little boss is hungry again so I’d better go. Love and happy autumnal times to you all,
Harrie x x