Early last month, Brey and I went on a personal writing retreat to a lovely spot on the Norfolk Coast called Bacton. We rented a cute little wooden house with a spectacular view of the ocean, which was only a few steps away. I got to exercise outside every day, and I wrote nearly 20,000 words on my alter-ego's fake-romance book, The Sister Act. Now, I can forgive a lot for a view like this: the tiny bedrooms, the creaky bed, the windows that wouldn't open, the front door that sometimes didn't...

Nope, I'm not practicing my Cher tribute act. I'm thinking about what I could do if I had that power. The Extractor series is all about using time travel to fix things in the past to make a better future. Escape in Time's mission is about rescuing a doctor incarcerated in Nazi Germany because she masqueraded as a man so she could continue her work on curing cancer. Landry and the team are sent to retrieve her and get the hell out of dodge, but these things rarely go to plan, do they? But as I...

It's a little over a week until Christmas, and we're so not ready for the big holiday. We've just come back from three weeks in our favourite coastal spot (one week writing and two weeks working) of Westward Ho! or WeHo for short. Cue the next week or so looking at properties for sale in the area so I can kitesurf whenever the right wind blows in. Brey decorated the house before we left, but I've got the outside decorations still to put up... GLITTER!!! The bane of my life. We have a set of...