Another of the ideas I wanted to see if I could pin down revolved around an idle thought I had one day walking back to my hotel room down identical corridors. What if someone lived in the shadows inside the hotel, feeding on leftover room service? The backstory of such a person would have to…
This was actually the first book I wrote. Well, at least the first half was. I hate crowds and was living in Central London (go figure!) as I hated the commute more than the density of humanity. So after I made it home one day, feeling very much like a salmon that had made it…
This was before Covid Lockdown. I was looking online for a flat we could buy in Edinburgh. I’d finished looking for the houses we could afford, which didn’t take long. And then just out of morbid curiosity, I looked at houses which were well and truly out of our price range. Like the top of…
So, you’ve finished writing your story. You found a bunch of people who would read it and give you feedback on which parts were confusing, which characters felt flat and which parts were exciting. Maybe you made some changes as a result of their feedback, maybe you didn’t. You tinkered, you rewrote, you nudged, you…
