Saturday 23 May 2015

Milestones and Special Events

Don't you just love when it's a time of special events in your life, whether that be milestone birthdays, anniversaries, or such like. Last year, I had a significant birthday and next month husband and I celebrate our Ruby Wedding Anniversary. Although we find it difficult to imagine forty years together, we're both still fit and healthy enough to enjoy life and are looking forward to a special holiday. But more of that in June!

Last weekend, we celebrated our beautiful wee granddaughter's third birthday and that was a very special day. Both sets of grandparents and Aunty Vikki joined in the fun and enjoyed the pink fairytale castle cake. The colour pink and fairy stories have suddenly ousted Thomas the Tank Engine from top place, so we're assuming girls will be girls all by themselves!


This week, my lovely daughter, Victoria (to use our name for her), has signed a contract with traditional publisher, Strident, who will publish her debut YA novel, Follow Me, in October. I'm so delighted for her as she's had some success with short fiction and deserves to be more widely read. I can't wait for this to be out at last and imagine it will be enjoyed by older teens and adults alike.

I should be emailing out the May newsletter over the weekend hopefully, so if you haven't already subscribed and would like to be added to the mailing list (which is only used for the newsletter), please drop your email address into the box on the right side of the blog.

Hope you all enjoy the bank holiday weekend. Some summer sun would be a lovely bonus!

Rosemary

16 comments:

Joanna said...

What a lovely pink cake and what fabulous, exciting news about Vikki's publishing success and so well-deserved. You must all be so happy and proud. My daughters will be very interested in her book as they all love YA novels and are always looking out for new titles, so I shall definitely be recommending Follow Me.

Have a lovely weekend, Rosemary. We haven't had much sun so far, but still hopeful. xx

Rosemary Gemmell said...

Thanks so much, Joanna! You'll understand the excitement and Vikki will be so pleased to hear your daughters might be interested in Follow Me (I love it too!). Very little sun here either but we had a good walk just the same. Enjoy your holiday Monday.

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Wendy's Writing said...

Happy anniversary, Rosemary! We celebrated our fifth last week (so a long way behind you) as well as my husband's 50th and we are enjoying stringing out the celebrations! Congratulations to Victoria - you must both be thrilled.

Jean Bull said...

Congratulations to Vikki!
I love the cake too. How clever to make the pink princessy towers!

Carolb said...

Fun cake design, and probably very tasty too. :-)

Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary, Rosemary- we celebrated our 31st a couple of weeks ago.

Rosemary Gemmell said...

Thank you, Wendy! It's another exciting year.

Thanks, Jean - unfortunately, I didn't make the cake but did eat some!

Thanks, Carol - congratulations on yours too!

Karen said...

Lots of things to celebrate there, congratulations :o) The cake looks yummy!

Rosemary Gemmell said...

Thanks, Karen - it was! And a little girl enjoyed it as she doesn't eat a lot of that kind of sweet thing!

Patsy said...

Writing talent obviously runs in your family!

Vikki said...

Thanks so much for your comment, Joanna and I hope your daughters will enjoy the book! It's all very exciting, as you'll understand with the approach of the publication of your own novel :)

Vikki said...

It was a lovely day. And you're right -this has been a year of milestones for the family! Thanks for sharing my news x

Vikki said...

Thank you -I am thrilled !

Vikki said...

Thanks Jean!

zerry ht said...

Well for me wedding anniversary, birthday of my Husband are two main events which are really special. You know on my anniversary we book a grand vow renewal location every year and we invite all close friends too.

Anita Chapman said...

What a pretty cake Rosemary! Best wishes for a very special Ruby Anniversary with your husband. And such wonderful news re Vikki's contract, I expect she's very happy!