Happy New Year!
January 5th, 2010 by adminFirst and foremost, let me wish a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010 to you all, and offer my thanks to everyone who’s bought and read my books during the last year - your support is always appreciated. Secondly, I offer a reprimand to myself, as a quick check before I wrote this revealed it was September when I last updated this blog. And it was only just becoming autumn - now we in the north of England are immersed in one of the coldest winters I can remember, with snow thick on the ground, night-time temperatures diving into negative numbers and the British transport system well and truly ground to a halt. (Yes, I appreciate those of you where real winters are common would find our conditions laughably mild….).
After a seasonally snowy start to the festive season and indulgence in the charming holiday traditions still upheld here, my son and I spent Christmas in Kent, fitting in visits to the O2 arena for the festive market there and to a pantomime at the theatre in London’s Greenwich (Mother Goose - probably one of the most entertaining pantomimes I’ve seen, and I have seen a good few pantomimes - love ‘em!). Since we got back to Derbyshire, the winter weather has really bitten hard, and I’ve barely left the village. This enforced ‘imprisonment’ has had two effects: one, a daily dose of cabin fever as I glare at the undriveable roads and resign myself to another day ’snowed in’; and two, a remarkable increase in word production on Book 5 in the series which is moving things along very nicely indeed (I can hear my agent cheering from here).
So it’s an ill wind, even if it’s an icy one. It’s likely to be a week or two yet before this little British winter lets up; who knows what mysteries for Hermes I might have conjured up by then? In the meantime, I have a couple of dates already in the 2010 diary for trips out and about. I’m very pleased to be travelling to Barcelona at the beginning of February as part of the city’s Black Novel week, and I’m also looking forward to Bristol Crimefest in May.
The snow will have melted by then, surely…?