Publication date for 'Diary of a Female GP': 15th August.

And we have Lift-Off!

Or very nearly!

Excitement and nervousness rule this afternoon. It is finally done!

Finally, is "Diary of a Female GP" ready for publication!

This afternoon I have added the manuscript to Amazon KDP for publication, both as Kindle book and as a paperback.

Have I done the right thing? Is it good enough? Will it be a success or a failure?

It was a long road from NaNoWrimo2018 project to the finished book, but now it is within sight.

Big thanks go to Karen J Mossman and Carole Parkes for beta-reading and critiquing the manuscript. Without your help, I couldn't have done it. 

A third beta reader also added some valuable remarks, however, I could not agree with some of her statements. She wanted the GP to kill her family. Sorry, this is not a work of fiction, this is real-life.

A diary of a Female GP is about a real-life GP, now retired, but a very real GP with her very real and much-loved family. Not going to happen, ever! 

The only things which are not real are the exact medical cases discussed. They are a piece of magic, a pinch from this case, a sniff of that case, mingled with that gender and such age. And voilà, a case that might have happened but carries the markings of a few cases together. 

I'm also grateful to Dr Ellen, the GP in this work, for sharing her life and work stories with me. I couldn't have done it without you either (there would have no book to write without you).

Pre-order it now and start reading the book next weekend!

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PUBLICATION DATE: 15th of August!

This book is not fiction!

So, don’t go looking for:

• A plot.
• A hook.
• A climax (and for those with dirty minds, it’s not that kind of book)
• A moral story.
• A GP taking revenge on patients or family.
• Someone killing their family.

Instead, you can find:

• A real-life woman with her own hang-ups and insecurities.
• A real-life woman struggling to balance work, home, childcare and family life.
• A real-life GP faced with difficult problems, dilemmas and more.
• A real-life GP faced with the stresses of coping under difficult circumstances.
• A real-life GP faced with grateful patients and those who are never happy.

If you are interested to have a peek behind the scenes of real-life General Practice in the UK, this is a #MustRead. If you are only interested in fiction, this is not the book for you.

Once more my thanks go to my good friend Ellen, my beta readers Carole, Karen and Angel and to you, my readers.

Now, go get the book and let me know what you think. I can't wait to find out.

Are GPs as lazy as they were made out to be in 2017? Or are they actually quite busy and is there a lot more going on behind the scenes than patients could ever have imagined?

What do you think? 

Just a quick reminder of my other books:

Joni.