

‘Just write – the title will come later.’
One of the things that I find most difficult when starting a new writing project is deciding on a title. When I was at school, teachers used to say 'Just write – the title will come later'. I’ve often offered the same advice to my own students but it’s a suggestion that I find hard to follow. I hate seeing 'Untitled' as a file name on my computer, or, worse 'Book 4’. I wouldn’t keep a pet without giving it a name and I’m fairly certain that, if I’d had children, they would


Digging
Tomorrow my latest novel, Closer to Home, will be published. It’s been available to order for just over a week and I’ve been watching its Amazon sales rank with a slight sense of disbelief as the number keeps going down (that’s a good thing). It looks like people are buying it based on the blurb and possibly on their enjoyment of my previous books. Last October, I was extremely nervous about the release of Fracture, my second novel, because I was worried that the positive