Hello out there!

This feels a bit like shouting into the abyss: I finally have a blog, which must make me very 21st century – does it? If anyone is actually reading this, well, it’s jolly nice of you to drop by. Being a bit of a technophobe, it was the lovely ladies at my publishers, Harper Collins (or Avon to be exact) who gently coaxed me into the land of the blog. OK, perhaps it wasn’t so gentle – maybe they actively pushed me! I also tried Twittering but so far I’ve only been followed by some very pneumatic porn-stars – slightly scary – and I think I might leave it for a while…though if Ashton Kutcher is around and twittering, well, it might be a different matter.

I’m currently in the final edit stages of my 3rd novel – working title FALLING/ SOCIETY X – due for April 2010 publication, which is very exciting. It’s the story of investigative journalist and mother of 3, Rose Miller – whose apparently perfect life is disrupted when her past comes back to haunt her. Once a member of a rather decadent secret society at Oxford, Rose and record-producer-husband James have so many skeletons in the closet it’s positively rattling… Which reminds me that it’s Halloween tomorrow and I have a small vampire and an even smaller ’skelington’ downstairs waiting to light the pumpkin.

As I polish off the edits, it’ll soon be time to start thinking about my next book, in which DI Silver from my debut novel LULLABY will make a reappearance. He has quite a few female fans; some readers got in touch with suggestions of who might play him in the film of the book. Daniel Craig was one, and I certainly wouldn’t put up a fight. Mr Craig, if you’re out there and you’re taking a break from all that shaking not stirring , what do you reckon?

Anyway – having flown around subjects like skeletons and porn stars and 007, it’s time to return to the land of SOCIETY X and dotting the last i’s.

Happy Halloween