After what feels like years and years of waiting and holding the biggest secret I have ever kept. I feel full of relief that I can finally write and explain what has been going on in my life recently. 

I am not going to go into the full details (and I still cannot release every detail about publishing) but here is the basic details. I don't know if you remember, but a few months back I wrote a blogpost about my Bucket List; the superficial and sentimental things that I wanted to complete in my life. Well, on that list was that I wanted to write a novel and I had mentioned that I was in the processing of drafting one. [At this point in time I had no idea just who was going to read that post and where it was going to take me - it was purely a project for myself and something that I wanted to be able to say I had done.] So, just a few days later I woke up and checked my emails as I normally do only to find that I had one regarding this 'novel' that I was writing. It was asking me to send the first two chapters, along with a detailed synopsis and my contact details, in reply. I didn't even really think anything of it. I just sent it. I completely forgot about it until I received a phone call about 2 days later asking if I had any interest in publishing my work. I got very frightened and told them I needed a few days to think it over. After 3 days I phoned back and we organised a meeting over the phone and, later, one in person. At this point, I didn't really know how to feel and I kind of bottled everything up inside me. No one else knew what was happening and it actually felt amazing, like my little secret, my own little world outside of school and friends. Once I had dozens more meetings I was given a deadline of November 21st 2014 to have the novel completed. It was around mid-October and I was only just half way through!! So I completely put all of my schoolwork aside and set myself 3 hours of writing every night and an extra 2 hours on weekends and days I had off from school (this was around exam time). To my complete shock, on November 14th 2014 I completed my novel. It was sent for editing, checking and now printing. 

The reason for the title is that in real life I haven't been too fused on this whole thing. Not many of my friends know about it, not much of my family knows about it. And although those 10 or 15 know about it, it still feels like my little secret, my little baby, my pride and joy. It's something that I don't want made a big deal of between my friends/family and I and I have tried my best to keep details to a minimum. 

Where to from here? Well, I have titled the book 'Ella Online' (I will attach a very brief synopsis below) and have decided the book will first be published as an eBook and in the future be printed in paperback form. The eBook version will be available as of mid-February and the paperback form will be available a little later in the year. 

Stay tuned. 

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