Festivals, libraries and fitting in words

April was a hugely busy month. The Missing came out, I wrote a ton of short stories to promote it (okay, four) and I spent a lot of time preparing a workshop called The Art of the Thriller for Chipping Norton Literary Festival. I went to ChipLitFest for the first time last year and had such a great time I was really excited to go back.

Despite a few technical difficulties at the beginning (thank you Windows 10 updates!) the workshop went brilliantly well. I had a full class and they were hug...