Since I've been back from holiday (in rainy Cornwall), I've been in rainy London, with a very rainy cold that hasn't left me feeling like updating much.  So, with no news, just a big hello to newest commenters:

Hello again to Jenny, who seems to have bought more than her fair share of copies, and to Ciara (cheers for liking that article, I believe it).

Hello to Natasha, who has an excellent question about the "I heard a maiden call" song.  The song is an old English folk tune called "Early One Morning", the version I used in my head is by Jim Moray.  Download it, it's pretty cool.

Hello to Georgia (Paddy is fine, Patty is not), Emma (no casting plans for Viola just yet, but I'll keep you all posted), Joe (Cheers, and I couldn't possibly give that info away), Lynne (very kind, thank you), Cassia (I always wrote, though my favourite subject was probably whatever was last in the day), and Conor (thinking up what animals would really say was probably the most fun I had in the book).

Cheers to you all, and just to remind you that you can download the free Viola story here and see the cover of Monsters of Men here.  More news to come, I assure you...