Mild Manic - depression / bi-polar

Ever since I was in secondary school, aged about 13, I noticed that, when essays and projects were concerned, I was able to do large creative bodies of work only once every 3 weeks.
The fourth week was tremendous. I would be keen and have no bother coming up with ideas for paintings, stories and getting really high scores. The peak would then tail off to a slump of lethagy and despondency 2 weeks later and then build up again.
This wasn't such a problem with a project that could be delayed to a time when I could deal with it on a high point, but it meant that if exams coincided with a low point, I was in trouble.
Now, if I'm to do planning for teaching, I leave it until I'm on an uptick of the wave.  Same for coming up with ideas for novels.   Once they have been started I can keep going. If I have a break from them it's really hard to get back on board in a trough of the wave. The words per day follows the wave too.  I can get 10k done on a non-working day at the crest of the creativity wave, tailing off to 250-400 on a trough day.
At the moment I'm in a trough, but coming out of it.

New Novel MS completed - Beaver Creek Christmas

I have completed the new novel.  Dispatched it to Hallmark Publishing for their unagented submission month of February.  I followed the guidelines and, in spite of sickness in January, got it submitted three days before the end of Feb. deadline.

Now all I'm doing is doing another edit while I wait.  Apparently I'll find out by the start of May whether they will pursue it as a book.

C

I had been watching a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies with my wife and it was her challenge to me in October, when she saw about the February submissions, to write a Christmas romantic novel.
I actually think it turned out rather well.

Other cover ideas include:

B

A

Any preferences?

Fed up with Brexit

I'll begin with the fact that I did not get a vote and had no say either  way on Brexit.

Mark Twain said something about " if voting ever made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it." 

Brexit is that case in point. UK establishment didn't want it to go that way, neither did EU. What's the point of a parliament now? Scrap it, cut the pretence of democracy and appoint the major generals (or more likely EU commissioners) to run the country.  They might actually divert some money away from London to where it's needed.