A few quick things: I went to the BBC yesterday to do some radio interviews. Actually I did more than I realised I was lined up for; luckily I was early, because I was shoved on air with literally a minute to spare – frankly it was a relief I even remembered my name during the 1st interview, for Radio Jersey. Afterwards I popped out and as the nice receptionist offered me a drink, a rather imposing man rocked up and then stood looking down at her as if she should know who he was. She obviously didn’t, though I recognised him as the reporter John Simpson (isn’t he the guy that ‘took Baghdad’ before even the US army did?!) Anyway, the poor man seemed quite put out that she had no clue who he was. I skipped back into my tiny cubby-hole of a studio before war broke out and he could declare ‘he’d taken Western House’.

I did a funny interview about NEVER TELL for the celebrity gossip website Female First; I say funny, but it wasn’t really meant to be! You can read here – though it seems to have been transcribed absolutely verbatim with alll my dithering and pausing and lots of laughing apparently…if you do read it, please excuse my dizziness!

Never Tell is apparently doing OK in the British bookshops, so if you’re one of the lovely people who’ve bought it, thank you. It’s climbed up the Heatseeker chart a bit, so fingers crossed!!

Finally for now, I’m going to be at Crime Fest in Bristol from May 20-22 so it’d be great to see you if you fancy it…details here. There’ll be lots of exciting writers milling around discussing important crime stuff (OK, they’ll probably be mainly propping up the bar). Come and say hello!