Good afternoon from Caffe Nero in Station Square, Cambridge.

Book Two, ‘The Half-Life Girl’ is done and dusted. It locks neatly into Book Three ‘Now Is The Time Of Monsters’.

At the end of Book Two, the brothers take a demon passage back into Brigid’s workshop in London on the 4th January 1794. 

If you’ve ever been away from home for a long time, you’ll have experienced that sensation where half your mind is back where you were before, and half is in the place you’ve returned to. 

Right away, it’s clear things have changed. Brigid’s work table has been turned on its side, her tools scattered around the room and there is the smell of burning.

Disaster has struck London.  

I’ve made good progress with Book Three. I’m revising Chapter Seven. 

And bad as the situation is in London, it’s much much worse beyond the shining portals.

My task now is to bring it all together to create a momentous and satisfying end to the trilogy.

I think book two is always the most difficult to write in a trilogy. The reader is not entering the world you’ve created for them for the first time as in the first book. And, although I’ve created a false conclusion, the reader knows the end of book two isn’t the real end. 

In book three, I can let rip! All the characters are going to get their just desserts.

It’s going to be fun!