There’s a good reason why this blog has seen no action for over a month. Not a forgotten password nor end of internet access as we know it, nor even pressures of work and childcare – it’s quite simply because this is the publishing process. Nothing is happening – at my end. Somewhere, an anonymous…

No, not those games, of which I am already heartily sick, but the games entitled ‘Getting one’s First Book Published’. Having just celebrated sending the files off to the publisher with a bottle of Bollinger (feel free to sponsor me), I now have to sort out permissions, images, maps, my cover photo and finally at…