Every writer hits it – writer’s block. The session where the words just don’t come. For me, bad writing days have a few different flavours. The first is just tiredness. I write in the evenings and on Sunday afternoons. I don’t have the luxury of writing when I’m at peak energy. Sometimes I sit down […]

There’s a version of the writer’s life that gets a lot of airtime. A desk by a window. Morning light. A steaming mug. Words flowing. That’s not my life. Writing isn’t my full-time job. I have a career, a family, and roughly the same number of hours in a day as everyone else. So the

It started in a bookshop. Not just any bookshop — a tiny shop in Hay-on-Wye, the book town in Wales, that specialises in collectible crime and mystery. I was browsing the shelves when I noticed something about the old paperbacks. They were small. Pocket-sized. Designed to go with you — tucked into a jacket, slipped