An Open Letter to People Who Have to Live With Writers

Dear [insert name here]

Sorry.

Sorry for not always being there physically.

And sorry for sometimes being there physically but not mentally.

Sorry for trying to grab every moment I can with my laptop.

Sorry for using the printer at half one in the morning. Hopefully, I'll soon be able to afford a quieter one.

Sorry for regularly disappearing upstairs for short periods, or dipping my head into my phone. I'm not up to anything dodgy, just checking my Kindle Reports and D2D dashboard, hoping to see a sale, even a freebie download, any evidence that somebody somewhere might like my stuff. Anything but a row of goose eggs.

Sorry for finishing writing one book and then immediately piling in to another. I don't think I can stop.

And sorry for not making this letter longer. It's just that I've got other things to write.

[Add name here] x