Two of my DI James Corstorphine series are being re-released by Storm Publishing, The Bone Clock (previously published as Whirligig) will be available from all the usual outlets from April 17th 2025; The Devil’s Cut from May 1st.

I have just about finished a 3rd in the series, title TBD. This time it’s personal for the detective.

Publication date for book 3 will hopefully be later this year.

What next? I have my climate change thriller, A Song of Winter which is now unpublished as the wonderful Fledgling Press are sadly no more. My plan is to have an edit and then republish myself. I also have a story written about an adopted Iraqi girl who is abducted – it needs a complete re-write and again I’ll probably self-publish.

After that it really depends upon the sales figures and my publisher’s number-crunching, but I also have other ideas that I want to bring to fruition – not least my genre-breaking fairy-tartan-noir trilogy with Thomas the Rhymer who has been left stranded in book one for seven years! Again, a massive edit and I’ll try a few publishers but this also will probably end up as self-published.

Writing is like climbing a munro. You start with enthusiasm, eyes set on the summit and that early sprint turns into a hard slog with so many false summits that it’s only determination that keeps you going – that and seeing what the world looks like from the top. Trouble is, I can see other mountains emerging from the mist and I want to climb them too. So, take a deep breath, watch where you’re placing your feet and off we go again.