I talk about what I’ve been reading and what I’ve learned from it, craft-wise, and then I get my head down and do 15 minutes of work, while you do the same.

Sound for the 15 minutes: what I can hear out of my studio window, including tree sparrows, a whitethroat, plenty of rooks, an oystercatcher and the gamekeeper’s dogs barking (in the distance).

Books mentioned: Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch; This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, and Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk.

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