Georgian London is one year old today.  This year has seen me start a blog to share the masses of stuff in myriad folders and notebooks around our flat, stuffed with a decade's scrivening; it's seen me on Twitter talking nonsense with a whole bunch of amazing people, it's seen me get an agent and a publisher (wildest dreams territory) but most of all, I have revelled in how many of you have enjoyed my interpretation of Georgian London.  I cannot thank enough the people who've supported the blog, subscribed, emailed, tweeted, liked and generally been part of the team.  I hope you'll buy the book of course, but most of all I hope you'll stay on and keep me company.  After all, writing life is solitary.  And, my word, there's so much more I have to tell you!

It's true!  Yesterday Eleo Gordon of Penguin books said she was thrilled (Say I'm thrilled! she said) to have acquired Georgian London 'the book', which will be out in hardback in the Spring of 2012. 

This, as you can well imagine, is like a dream; a dream that wouldn't have happened without all of you and certainly wouldn't have happened if my agent, the lovely Kirsty Mclachlan of David Godwin Associates hadn't found me on the Twitter contraption.  I want to hug and thank you all so there's a fair chance Kirsty may just get hugged to death.

Anyway it's going to be a big book, telling the story of London and her people in the 18th century and showing, I hope, the diversity and sheer vibrancy of ordinary life in the capital and how the human experience of this amazing city remains, in many way unchanged from that of three centuries ago.  I'll be blogging the journey towards the publication of the book, as well as carrying on with the posts, and I hope you'll stay and enjoy it with me.  And buy the book, of course!

So, better go and get on then.....*sharpens quill*