Cyber Monday (Part Two)

It’s Cyber Monday and what am I doing? Spending Easter weekend in Blackpool.

Does that make sense? Course it doesn’t. Easter is almost five months away, so how can I be spending it in Blackpool right now?

Well, as readers of the STAC Mysteries, it’s all your fault. You’ve taken Christmas Crackers to #1 in the Amazon UK cosy crime top 100, and for that I’m truly grateful. But it’s never enough. People are already asking, “When is the next one due out?” and the nearest answer I can give is: “sometime in the spring”.

I can tell you that it starts with a road traffic accident on the motorway outside Blackpool where the STAC mob are heading for the Easter weekend. What do you do with seventy bus passengers when their vehicle has been involved in a fender bender with a lorry? What do you do with a large mail order company which considers itself above the law?

You sick Joe Murray, Sheila Riley and Brenda Jump onto them. That’s what you do. Especially when there are couple of murders in the mix.

It’s working title is Death in Distribution, and it should have been released about now, but I ran into some problems with it, so it’s been held over. By redrafting the outline, altering the setting and Joe’s entry into the scheme of things, I overcame the problems, and now it has the green light. The only drawback is that it still has to be written.

And that’s why, while you’re all clicking away on your mice/mouses/meeces, ordering your Christmas goodies at knockdown prices, I’m spending Easter weekend in Blackpool.

There are pluses. Easter, as I’m writing it, is a glorious, sunny April weekend, so I’ll be a lot warmer than you. And, of course, my credit card is snuggled in my wallet where it’s safe from cyberspending.

Have a good Cyber Monday, and look forward to Easter.