I’ve gone and done it – I’ve hired a PR company, a firm called Acute PR that specialises in promoting books both in print and in ebook format. They’re also located in Luton – practically next door for me, which was another reason for choosing them. They’re liaising with my agent in terms of co-ordinating the promotion effort – dates, etc. So what happened to the cover designer? Still in abeyance, unfortunately… Some progress is being made, though.

We’ve decided to adopt an approach of launching one of the unpublished books, with the others following on the back of it – the idea is for all eight to appear within a very short time frame. The lead book will be Berlin Endgame, because it’s the third book in a series, following on from The Dutch Caper and Emerald, so there’s an immediate link for people who have read them in print. It’s all still at an embryonic stage – we still haven’t finally decided which conversion company we’re going to go with, nor do we have a cover design set up (although we’ve decided that the covers of all eight books need to have a common theme running through them), but there is a feeling that things are beginning to happen.