I’m in the fortunate position of having a day job that gives me a six week summer holiday – starting at the beginning of July. And I plan to spend a good proportion of the time off getting on with my writing.

I have various projects on the go that I want to give time to. The main one is, of course, the new novel – the first draft is now 40,000 words in. But I also have an outline for a children’s novel in place and would like to develop this. And then there are three writing competitions that I’m interested in entering.

So it will be a busy holiday – and I can’t wait. Two and a half weeks and counting…