NaNoWriMo 2010

Some of you may remember that last year I took part in NaNoWriMo, which is a one-month whirlwind of fiction writing. People across the world take part, writing a 50,000 word first draft of their novel during the month of November.

I finished my novel last year (well, I finished editing it last weekend, and am still not 100% happy with it) and decided to go for it again this time around.


I am still working on the plot, but here's the back-cover blurb. It could well change a little, a lot, or completely between now and November 30th, but it's a start.

Rose Cooper has almost everything a girl at the end of the nineteenth century could want: a loving family, a handsome suitor, a fulfilling social life, and a great future ahead of her. The only thing she doesn't have, the one thing which threatens to drive a wedge between her and the most important people in her life, is the vote.

The women in the fledgling colony of New Zealand are fighting to overthrow the Victorian oppression of the British Empire, and become the first in the world to have their say at the ballot box. Despite the misgivings of her family and the treachery of her opponents, Rose is determined to stand tall with her suffragette sisters as they fly in the face of everything society expects of them.  But is the price worth paying when every political move she makes threatens to tear her personal life apart?