It's not lying if you write it down, by Catriona

When you look back over your childhood and early life, can you see where being a writer, or indeed a crime writer, began for you? Were there definitive moments that sealed your fate?

I *am* going to look back today - briefly over the fate-sealing days of childhood - and then at the origins of the first book in the failed trilogy that is the Last Ditch Motel series. Failed because Book 7 is slipping off its chocks and into the open sea this week and that's not how trilogies are meant to go. 

Yes...