{"id":272,"date":"2020-06-26T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:25:12","slug":"things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last two years have not been fun! Being physically unable to stand or sit comfortably at an easel, painting became impossible, and various events conspired to put me off writing. Nothing has worked, thank goodness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To begin with, my publisher suggested that we give my Ghostly Echoes series a facelift, as they still sported the covers they inherited from when they were the Shades of Grey series that E. L. James drowned with hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was just after &#8220;Somebody Came&#8221; was published with its &#8220;Haunting&#8221; eye, that set its cover apart from all my other books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9781912777020-676x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" width=\"365\" height=\"552\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought the pocket-size was novel and liked the cover, so I was quite pleased when the new look incorporated the eye theme. All Five Ghostly Echoes books now feature grey, ghostly faces (in a subtle allusion to the old series title) but each has startlingly coloured and piercing eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1ghostly-echoes-3-square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"277\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1ghostly-echoes-3-square.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/?attachment_id=277\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1ghostly-echoes-3-square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1ghostly-echoes-3-square-300x300.jpg 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width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"279\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/?attachment_id=279\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3dangerous-echoes4-square-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, 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https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4haunting-echoes2-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4haunting-echoes2-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4haunting-echoes2-square-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4haunting-echoes2-square-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4haunting-echoes2-square-270x270.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"281\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/?attachment_id=281\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5restless-echoes-square-270x270.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">All my titles are on Amazon all major book store websites and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uppbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\"> www.uppbooks.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, with lockdown,  there has been time to sort out some short stories that I have written over the last thirty years, in between writing full-length books and painting. This has now been published as Short Blasts and I am pleased to say &#8211; the eyes are back \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Short-Blasts-Mai-Griffin\/dp\/191277741X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" width=\"377\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-178x270.jpg 178w, https:\/\/maiwriting.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.jpg 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Short-Blasts-Mai-Griffin\/dp\/191277741X for the paperback<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two years have not been fun! 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