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This is the last week of season 1 of A London Love Story. For 16 weeks, TB and Miranda have been publishing 5 episodes each week, meaning there are 80 in total. Two of a Kind is heading to the ARC team this week. Toot toot! In bad news, TB just figured out the LWW Buy Us a Coffee account had mysteriously been unconnected from the Stripe account, so all payments submitted in 2022 were never processed. It’s been reconnected to Stripe, and payments can go through now.
Clare has had a lot of things going on in the background, so she hasn’t made as much progress as she wanted to on the vineyard book. In business news, she’s testing different prices on platforms. This Friday is Clare’s movie debut at the British Film Institute. To refresh your memory, she’s part of a butch gang in the film, but she’s not sure of how much airtime she’ll get or what scenes ended up on the editing floor. In award news, Clare finally received her 2021 Goldie, and it’s beautiful.
They move on to the topic: the power of finishing. Since TB is finishing two projects, she walks the listener through all the to-dos to get a book to the publication and launch stage. Then, TB shares how she manages everything and what helps her dig deep to find the energy to power through the tedious end stage of a project. Clare came at the question differently and focused on the mindset of the power of finishing.
How do you power through?
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Next week, they’ll be back to chat about when to start your holiday novel.
Happy listening!
Clare and TB
Links:
A London Love Story: www.amazon.com/A-London-Love-Story/dp/B09KP4SRJ5/
TB met the final editing deadline for 
Clare is almost finished with the first draft of her book, a good thing since the edit deadline is quickly approaching. The narrator working on 
TB is in full panic mode, trying to make a March 1 edit deadline, but authors would never finish a project without the fear of a deadline. She didn’t do a great job planning everything going on behind the scenes leading up to this one and has been managing a lot of stuff while also trying to meet the writing deadline. On March 1, TB may collapse out of exhaustion and not get up for a week.
It’s been very wet in London, but Clare learned her office space has a fantastic rain feature in the middle of the building. Clare’s spring release briefly stuttered because she couldn’t get ahold of a vineyard, making TB think she needs to come up with better excuses, but as it turns out, Clare’s book is set on a vineyard, something she’d been keeping a secret. She’s hoping to get back on track this week. Wine should help to get her in the mood, but not sure about helping her wordcount. In unexpected news, Clare’s going global. She’s signed two German contracts for audiobooks. Over the weekend, Clare went to watch the Spurs play, but sadly, she got drenched on the way there and back. Also, her team played horribly.
TB’s week got off to a rough start, when her laptop had a hissy fit, turning a ten-minute task into forty-five long minutes. 
While the duo recorded this episode, Clare was fun and frothy in Whitstable, sitting on a daybed, balancing her laptop between her thighs. During her writing retreat, she’s been getting up every morning, going for a walk along the seafront, 3 hours of writing, lunch, another walk, then another writing block. During her walks, she’s realized that Whitstable is forever tied to One Golden Summer, the duo’s cowrite based there. In new writing news, she wrote 4k on her first day of the retreat. Go Clare!
TB waged war with audiobook pirates on YouTube and won for a day, but she knows it’s going to be a long battle. The Proposal, the London novella, is with the ARC team, but TB is more nervous than normal about releasing it due to the whole Amazon deranking issue. In fun writing news, TB has started another cowrite with Miranda MacLeod, and the story takes place on a ranch. Despite TB’s ancestors being ranchers, her knowledge about it is minimal, unless you count ranch sauce on a salad.
Clare crunched her 2021 writing words and, as it turned out, she wrote more words than in 2020, which is surprising given she had to deal with lots of family upheaval. In 2022 news, she’s worked out her schedule and finalized her goals (a good thing because that’s the topic for today!). Clare completed her first HIIT session of the year and almost vomited. And, Clare’s liquid-silk voice is taking the world by storm.