Balance of Guilt

It's now been a couple of months since The Balance of Guilt came out.  A fair few people have read it, and the feedback has been positive.  Which equals - a large phew!

It's such a peculiar feeling.  All the work goes into planning and writing the book, then rewriting and editing it, and when finally it's published... it's like taking a very deep breath, handing this precious, very personal thing over to a group of strangers and saying - go on then, here it is, tell me what you think.  And because of all that work, you're always nervous about what people will say.

So, thanks to everyone who has read it and taken the time to get in touch, I do appreciate it.

One thing I've particularly enjoyed is what people said about the end of the book.  Without giving too much away, in the other tvdetective novels I think it's fairly obvious within the first few chapters what the title refers to.  But in The Balance of Guilt, you don't get to find out until the very last four words - and even then, I wonder whether you can really be sure!

On which teasing note I shall leave you for now.  It's the weekend, the weather has finally been kind enough to stop raining (at least for a while), so I'm off to walk along the river and then head to the gym for a session of stretching and exercising.  Maybe more of the former than the latter!

One final thing to mention in this post.  If you're in Cornwall next Saturday (Nov 27th), it's the Callington Book Fair, a fine opportunity to purchase some Xmas gifts.  I'll be along, signing copies of the tvdetective books, and hopefully doing some Xmas shopping of my own! There are more details of the fair on the News and Events page - www.thetvdetective.com/news.html