He studied for an MA in Dramaturgy and Script Development at University of Exeter and is an alumni of Curtis Brown Creative. Jo is Vertebrate's finance director, she has had a very accomplished career in finance and senior management and joins us as a much needed grown up. It’s been one of the highlights of my journey so far to meet authors online and in person – because the authors I’ve met are genuinely lovely people.

I’m under no illusion, that the problems I encountered are indicative of wider problems in the publishing industry. But suddenly it becomes personal and David is afraid the next body that is brought up could be his daughter. I did speak to many commercial divers, and some of the old guard from the marine police consulted me informally. It’s one of the UK’s biggest crime scenes in that bodies surfacing is a daily occurrence, but it’s also used to traffic drugs and launder money, traffic people illegally and broker organs. I personally love being rewarded for my attention with those recurring details, but I also want to attract new readers.Because there’s a lot yet to say about my relationship with the publisher and where the wheels came off. We don’t talk about resilience loudly enough in the publishing industry, but to me, there’s no other way to get the words down on the page than practicing resilience when the writing starts to get tricky. He is convinced to listen to her when his own daughter goes missing… Dive is a murder mystery and detective novel set in London. It’s the publisher’s responsibility to disclose their honest misgivings about market position if it factors into their decision.

Frogman David Cade usually passes the bodies on but his new colleague Naomi Harding wants to pursue the deaths.To put that into perspective, that’s the same as 13 months, or 416 days, or a serious tele binge, if you watched the entirety of Game of Thrones 145 times - all 70 hours and 14 minutes of it.