It’s not all swashbuckling and travel, you know.

So, in 2004 I started writing a book. I wrote 80,000 words, but got stopped, and tried to fix it by adding a subplot. The subplot made things messy, and wrong, and I stayed stopped. In 2004 I’d not written a lot of the things I have written now, such as The Chocolatier’s Wife. I’m [...]