Over the years, it’s inevitable that if you do something on a regular basis, you develop a way of doing it that suits you best. You may have tried dozens of different ways but through a process of trial and error, success and failure, joy and frustration, you arrive at a solution that works for you. At least that’s the theory. That’s not to say your solution is perfect and it might need the odd tweak every now and then, as new ideas or new technology comes along to make you think again or consider options that weren’t available before.…

As days, weeks and months race by at alarming speed, the deadline for the publication of Silent Thunder looms ever closer. It’s not just the words, sentences, paragraphs and chapters that make up the book, to say nothing of the plot, the characters, the required tropes, the nuance, the ingenious twists etc etc. There’s a whole bunch of stuff that has to be done to get it on the bookshelf (or your favourite online portal). And top of that list is the cover. You can and do judge a book by its cover. And that makes it something of a…

A little bit of fun this time – to see which of the characters in the Susie Jones books you are most like. I’d love to tell you this is a highly researched psychometric analysis and the results are a definitive measure of your personality, but I won’t and it’s not. It doesn’t matter if you’ve read either of the first two books, but answer the six multiple choice questions and the depending on the result you’ll maybe gain a little more insight into five of the characters who features in the stories. I’ve also added a picture to each…