Goodreads asked Phil Cain:

What are you currently working on?

Phil Cain “Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public,” said Winston Churchill, as much a writer as he was a leader. His prodigious literary output fills 43 books and secured the Nobel Prize for literature. To borrow his dramatic metaphor, then, despite far more modest ambitions, I am still in the process of despatching my last book while only flirting clumsily with the next one. I imagine it might turn out to be something much lighter and straight-forward. My last one, Alcohol Companion, ultimately had an upbeat conclusion, but it was a long and winding road to get there. Whatever I currently have in mind for my next one, I know adventures have a habit of taking their own course. That is part of the reason to take them.

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