A new year...

...and some new challenges and adventures.  Read on...

I’m back at my desk with my laptop, my notebooks, dictionary and all the usual paraphernalia that accompanies a scribbler of stories.  Some things this year are going to be very different!  That will be so on more than one level.  There will be events and meet-ups where cherished people are now missing, and that’s always a hard course to tread.

There will be some of the same, of course.  The storytelling goes on in its many forms, and I can’t wait to get started with that.  And this blog will continue, too.  I’ve got some interviews with new-to-me authors, there will be more travel articles in France and elsewhere as I meander my way around the world.  All of which will be accompanied by my pics.  There will be book reviews, as always.

But the most important announcement today is that, after very patiently waiting since January 7th last year, my existing Jacques Forêt mysteries will be re-released over the next few weeks.  I can also tell you that book 7, Meyrueis, is now with a new editor who will begin work on the text next month.  I am really looking forward to seeing where we can take that book.  I’m also hopeful that sometime in March or April, I will have a cover to show you and possibly a release date to share with you as well.  Keep watching this space.

There are some big book events coming up in 2026.  As always, I will be announcing each one individually with full details here on the blog as the year progresses.  So, look out for the Book Fair at the Ridings Centre in Wakefield in May, Authors at the Abbey in Selby in August, Death in the Dales (Sedbergh) and Authors at the Armouries (Leeds) in October, along with Authors at the Coast in Whitley Bay in November.  I have no doubt that I will also be turning up at various other local events as they arise – again, details will be here on the blog in due course.

So, there will be a lot going on this year, and I really hope you can join me at some point along the way...