A heartfelt goodbye

Along with a mention by Nicholas Clee over on Bookbrunch, this week has seen me trying to 'keep it together' with a guest post on the blog of popular crime writer Sam Hayes, as well as waxing predictive over on Beat, a cultural magazine for Windsor. (Thanks to editor Melanie Gow for inviting me to write for her.)

In rather sad news, the dedicatee of The New Goodbye, Never, the Samoyed I've shared my life with for the past eleven and a half years, was put to sleep peacefully in the garden last Friday. Hopefully the dedication of the novel stands as testament to the important part she played in my life. Life is proving strange without her.