I would get the question “what is next?’ from the day I announced Not All There was to be published.
“Are you going to write a sequel?” “Are you going to write another book?”
Six weeks on from publication day I am still feeling the pressure from that question of what is next? I think this is a pressure a lot of indie authors deal with.
My solution to this was to disappear for six weeks to travel around Europe. Not a solution everyone can take. This had been a dream of mine since I was young and I had been planning for it for a long time. Coincidentally, Not All There happened to be published just before I was due to take my trip. However, it also meant that I had an answer to the question ‘what’s next?’, Europe!
Of course, a lot of people assumed I was going away to find inspiration or ideas or am planning to write 
during these weeks. So this was a perfectly acceptable answer, when it might not have been in another career.
Though here isn’t really any professional need for me to travel, I am not short of ideas, and although I have been hugely inspired by the things I have seen. This trip has been more of a breather from the hectic few months that have started the year.
I am incredibly lucky for things to have played out this way. Like I say I know this isn’t a solution, but fate has handed me the cards this time.