I hope you all had a great festive period, filled up on turkey sandwiches, ate a few too many chocolates, etc, etc… and now that we (most of us) are back to the grindstone, it’s time to remind ourselves of the minutiae of Real Life©.

In the first three days of the year I’ve read the first 50 pages of The City by Dean Koontz and the first 130 pages of Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. Now, once you stop laughing and have put aside the idea that you think it’s a book for girls (I’m trying to convince myself it really isn’t), I can tell you that total page count is about three times the amount of reading I did in the entirety of 2015! Crazy. I’m enjoying both and will hopefully be onto new stuff soon.

Now, the writing…