Okay, on the 11th September, this was the state of play as regarding dating: Introductory messages received: 0 Introductory messages sent: 9 (well, I've actually sent 10, but 2 were to the same girl because I didn't realised I'd already sent one...

Okay, I had this damn fool notion that I could get the book done by early December if I devoted most of my evenings to working on it. That didn't seem realistic half an hour ago, when I was still feeling lethargic after a day of work and then an...

Would you believe it's almost two years since I started writing the first draft of 'An Alternative History of Balesley Green'? I don't know the exact date I opened a new Word document and started typing, but by the 8th December 2007, I'd got almost...

I was asked this morning 'How on earth do crime writers write crime? How do they enjoy it? How do they sleep?'. Note that this was with respect to portraying gruesome murder, as opposed to a cozy whodunnit (though I'm sure the same question could be...

Saturday was the tweet-up - an excellent meeting of the cream of this country's cognoscenti - while Sunday was marred by something happening to my face. I don't know what it was, but it felt like sunburn. But that's not what I'm here to write about,...