Happy New Year

[jl_merrow]

I’m finally back from the annual round of visiting relatives, just in time to wish you all a very happy 2013!  Hope everyone had a good time over the holiday period and is now suitably stuffed/hungover/wondering what on earth they’re going to do with all those well-meant but mind-boggling presents.

I would tell you all my New Year’s resolutions, except that I resolved many years ago never to make any, and have managed to keep to that faithfully. However, I can tell you I’m hoping over the course of the year to finish the novel set in Iceland (Paul and Viggo meet by chance in the party food aisle, and bond over their shared love of cheap canapes and Atomic Kitten) and to write a sequel to Pressure Head.

And just in case you’ve got Christmas money burning a hole in your pockets, I thought I’d just point out that Midnight in Berlin is now available in paperback.

The lovely and talented Lou Harper did this ad for the current issue of Icarus, where you’ll also find a haunting little story of mine, Et in Orcadia.