With Careless Talk now sitting waiting for editing, it's time to turn my beady eyes towards something new. I've spent so much time, in the last year or two, in the company of my 'Angels', James and Emily, that it's proving to be a shock to the system to have finally finished the book.

Careless Talk lends itself to a series. The 'world' they inhabit is (I believe) very well formed and has plenty of scope for other stories. It's almost certain that I'll be revisiting that reality at some point in the near future (well – I still have to edit the book!) but for now it's on to pastures new.

One of the huge advantages of electronic publication is that I can write what I want to write and what readers want to read, and am not shoe-horned into one specific genre by a publisher. From Within was a straight up action horror, Careless Talk is much more of a love story. My next novel – The Sounding – won't have much in the way of love in it. It will certainly have horror – by the bucketload. It's also going to have rather a nasty streak of humour running through it. What's not to like?