Yesterday was my last day – I hope – as a full time employee. I realised a couple of months ago that it was no longer possible to combine my job with a writing career and do justice to both. Put like that, the choice was obvious. I have wanted to be a writer when I grew up ever since I was about seven and started writing my first book in a little Red-and-Black bound notebook. It has just taken me rather longer to grow up than I had expected.

So, today really is the first day of the rest of my life. I’m just hoping it isn’t all like this.

OK, so this is serious. I’ve been playing around with this site for a while, but haven’t really made it official. But Birkbeck have just asked me for details of my biography, publications and any website information so I decided to actually take the plunge and register a domain.

sallyhinchcliffe.net is now mine, all mine.  I didn’t fancy the naked commercialism of a .co.uk, or the rampant egotism of a .me.uk – .net seemed a suitable compromise.

I’m mainly using this blog as a personal website, somewhere where I can put up information about my books and short stories and other writing. This means persuading wordpress it wants to be a web site management tool instead of a blog – something I may struggle with.

Having got the blogging habit though, I will undoubtedly be putting up a few brief posts about the writing and publication process.