It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay… so I don’t know who needs to hear this, but give yourself a break, you’re doing brilliantly.

I was beating myself up earlier because I’m reading quite slowly at the moment… I’m only managing to read about a book a month (if that). As an author, you’re constantly told you’re failing if you aren’t inhaling 752 novels a second, hoovering up every zeitgeist, everyone in your genre and every other genre to boot. If you’re not reading everyone, all the time, how can you ...