Jo Fletcher asked, and Lo, I did it …

… wrote a little piece about writing and winning a British Fantasy Award.

The writing game is a fickle beastie.

It’s not all splash and dash – any writer will tell you that very few aspects of the life move swiftly (well, except for money out of wallets and the brief lives of bottles of red wine).

There’s a lot of slow-motion stuff – rather like the Bionic Man or Woman running – a lot of thinking about the same stuff over and over, waiting for responses to submissions, making endless cups of coffee in the hope that caffeinated percolation will assist story percolation, and doing the research you know is designed to keep you away from the horrible moment when you sit down to actually write.

The rest, she is here.