This will be just a very quick update to let you know the first draft of ‘A Depraved Indifference’ is now complete. Phew! That was a fun one to work through. You will be in for an adventure in mystery. There’s no angst or love story, and not much personal difficulty in this story, not with my main characters. However, the villain is the one who carries the emotional through line, and that’s about the first time I’ve written that way, so that was interesting.

I am now about to start on my reading back. I should point out that when I say the first draft is finished, I mean I have reached the end of telling myself the story. As I have been doing that, I have also been going back and rereading, making changes, improving, and second-drafting chapters, so really, I am about to embark on my third draft, which is mainly a case of fiddling with, improving, checking, and saying, ‘What on earth did I mean by that?’

Meanwhile, I will send Andjela some ideas for a cover and think about an illustration. Does it need one? I can’t put in an image of the villain because I don’t know what he looks like, and anyone else would seem out of place. We’ll see.

The monthly newsletter should be out this morning with a freebie kind of attached (you find the freebie via a link), and I’ll tell you more about the promos I am in later in the month.