The last few months have been a whirlwind.

It was only in February that I was published for the first time, having a short story included in the latest Belfast Writers’ Group anthology, but that feels so long ago.

Since then proof copies of Perilla Magilla, my first children’s picture book, arrived. Then the first print run arrived, and we had Laura, the lovely illustrator over to help sign them all. And we started shipping them out.

There were some hiccups along the way. We weren’t ...