Welcome to my blog!

Hello! Welcome to my blog. Please enjoy this picture of my dog Mabel having a small snooze.  

This feels a little strange; I haven’t written a blog-blog for, I don’t know, maybe twelve years? I’ve written a zillion liveblogs in that time, but not an actual personal blog about Stuff I’m Doing.  

So what shall we talk about? Mostly I want this to be about Writing Books, because that’s a really new thing in my world. And like most debut novelists I’m massively winging it, and reading how other people tackled it was actually hugely useful when I was starting out. In the early months I read a lot of blogs, and always vowed that if I ever got a book deal I’d add my own experience to this invaluable pool of resources.  

I might also talk about other things I love – dogs, living in the countryside, maybe share the odd recipe. There will definitely be no politics, celebrity gossip or me using this forum to yell into the abyss because I’m having a bad day. That’s what Twitter is for.

If there’s anything you want to know or would like me to write about, ask away.