In any list of achievements for 2020, reading a book hardly seems worth mentioning. Especially if you’re a voracious reader. As I was…right up until the day I started writing novels myself. Then, despairingly, I stopped reading (almost) completely.

Why?

Let me answer the question with a series of comments made by the illiterate devil sitting on my shoulder:

“You should be doing the washing, shopping, etc.”“You should be working. Your business won’t run itself”“You should be writing”“What if...