Phew

In fact, make that a large phew!, a sigh of relief of some resonance.

The reason - the first reviews of The Balance of Guilt have come back.

In my experience, the time between the release of a new book and starting to get feedback on it is one of the most nerve wracking in a humble author's life.  All this effort has gone into plotting, planning, writing, re-writing, and re-writing the thing once more, not to mention the discussions about the cover, the blurb, the marketing, all that stuff, and at last the book is finally out.

Then... all you can do is wait.  You see it on shelves, you know it's online, you imagine it sitting on people's bedside tables as they work their way through it.  And you wonder what they're thinking.

At last, you get some emails, and you gather your courage and open them.  Then you gather even more courage and actually read them.

Well, a dozen or so people have now got in touch with me about The Balance of Guilt, and I'm delighted to say they've been positive.  Hence the phew.  The very loud and very long phew.

Thanks to all who have been in contact, I very much appreciate your feedback and am delighted you liked the book.  And for those who have said that two of the new characters should make an appearance in more books, I agree and I've already started thinking about how.  More of that another time.

It matters not that I write this on a grey and grim Wednesday morning, with the hint of winter in the air, this author is a relieved and smiling chap!

If you'd like to know more about The Balance of Guilt, and my other scribblings, there are more details on the books page - www.thetvdetective.com/books.html