I’ve got time for one more pass through my new book, Midwinterblood, to be published this autumn, and that means it’s time for the design team at Orion to kick into overdrive with the cover. I like this bit for lots of reasons, not least because my work is nearly done and I can ‘advise’…

Normally I hate it. Now it seems I love it. Rewriting, that is. The last two longer books I’ve written, White Crow and Midwinterblood (which won’t be published till October) have seen a change in my attitude to rewriting. With White Crow, I thought this was because I really didn’t like getting the first draft…