Having a novel in the hangar, ready for launch, is not as simple as everyone thinks.

 "Oh you must be so excited," they say.

We often do this. We polarise our idea of what something will be like, and then plonk it on the person it's happening to. And I do that too, to my own idea of the future. I make it all one colour – good or bad.

Things are never all good or all bad though, are they. Or are they? Maybe it's just me that complicates things. Mr Ambivalent.

My debut novel, Rocks in the Belly...