Merry Christmas!

I'd like to send season's greetings to all my friends and readers. I do hope you have a wonderful Christmas. I've been hugely grateful for the messages I've received, through the year and in recent days. The connections I've made through this blog and otherwise are precious to me.

Lately I've managed to fit in quite a lot of reading, but somehow the TBR pile never seems to diminish - on the contrary. In fact, an interesting-looking book (a proof of a newly discovered novel, never published, by a major thriller writer) arrived only this morning. Ah well, thank goodness there are many books to look forward to...

On the writing front, I've also been busy recently and I'm hoping to work pretty hard during January as I have three distinct projects currently on the go. Yesterday, I received a kind email from a fan in the US expressing dismay that I was giving up writing fiction. This stemmed from my reference in the acknowledgements to Gallows Court that the book was a "departure".

Well, it just goes to show that even a lawyer and author can write something that has a meaning quite unintended. I simply meant that it was a very different book from the others I've written. I hastened to assure her that, with any luck, I'll be writing at least as much as ever next year. And, I'd like to think, for the foreseeable future.

But for now, on with the festivities...