How did that happen?

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Wow, you look the other way and suddenly three and a half months flash by! I find, with some dismay, that I haven't updated this thing since before summer, largely because I've been busy as usual. Stress at work coupled with other things have limited my leisure time, and so stuff like this have been neglected. But now I'm back in the saddle to some degree. So here goes.

Well, I didn't finish the novel I mentioned last time. When it came to my fortnight off, I was so knackered that I just bummed out and watched the World Cup, or went down  the beach with a barbie and got all meated-up (local parlance). But I have been working on another of the novels I mentioned, which now has a title: Divided Spirits. All I can say at this stage is that it's a ghostly tale set in south London, in an old Edwardian house once occupied by a decidedly strange family. Creeps shall follow as certain as night follows day . . .

What else? Oh yeah, my first novel: it's coming out at FCon, 18th Sept 2010. I'm very proud of this book and reckon it's the best thing I've done so far, so am excited about that. So prepare yourselves for The House of Canted Steps, folks. It's one of the most devious and vindictive places in town!

I think that's all on the writing front, so till next time (which I hope will be rather sooner than this one was in relation to the last), best wishes . . . and watch out for that shadowy figure which follows you in the sunlight. I mean, you say it's just your shadow, but . . .

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