The Puzzle

In 2024, I published my latest novel. The one I had been destined to write. Again, it was an idea that first came to me years earlier. I had already created the crossword back in the 90’s and still had it. Unfortunately, I had lost all the clues so had to rewrite these and there were over 150, the crossword grid being twenty-seven by twenty-seven. This would be my fastest produced novel. Even though I had made attempts over the years to start it, I had never got further than one chapter. Now I ploughed ahead and wrote the bulk of it in a year. It was my best yet and reluctant to self-publish again, I spent three years sending it around the agents. Again, with no takers it ended up going the KDP route. Sales are not what I hoped but the feedback is good, and I even have a celebrity endorsement from John Burton who plays Sergeant Goodfellow in Father Brown.