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Last week, I spent two days at the SPS indie author conference in London. This is the fifth year I've been to this event. This year, the organisers had revamped it and moved venues, and they promised it would be better than ever. I knew it would be great when I came out of the station and was greeted by this inspiring sight. Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament The conference was held in County Hall, former home of the Greater London Council. These days, it's used far more pr

We're halfway through the month and I've read three books so far. All three turned out to be really good. The Puppet Show is book 1 in MW Craven's Washington Poe series. I've already read most of the other books in this series (I don't know how I managed to miss the first book). The other books are fantastic so I had high expectations of this one and I wasn't disappointed. Poe and Tilly are two of the best characters anywhere in crime fiction, and I hope this series goes on f

Yesterday, I went to the Hertfordshire County show. Of course, as soon as I saw that Hertfordshire police had a stand there, I had to introduce myself and get a few photos. They let me sit on the police quad I think this makes me look like a real Action Girl. Maybe it's the sunglasses that do it. I sat in a police car This was my first time in a police car (honest!). And then they handcuffed me First time in handcuffs, too, I swear! Luckily, I escaped. Then we watched some st

Over a year ago, I was invited to a party as part of my day job. I work on the finance side of homelessness, helping to procure temporary accommodation for homeless people. One of the companies that was supplying us with properties decided to hold a small party for us in one of the houses, to celebrate the first house they provided for us. When the supplier company gave us a guided tour of the house, they made us wear blue plastic shoes covers to go upstairs. I was immediatel