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  "description": "Back to the woods and a solid day of editing.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T10:58:40.000Z",
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    "Chris Connor",
    "Crime Fiction Lover",
    "posted this excellent review of SOLITARY AGENTS",
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  "textContent": "Friday, huzzah.\n\nGot out for a walk this morning, which was very pleasant indeed. Breezy but not cold, the tide right in so I stood by the water and just listened for a solid ten minutes. One of the (many) nice things about Friday mornings is that I can take my time a bit more and do things like stand by the water and listen. Good for the soul.\n\nJust before I nodded off last night I saw that Chris Connor over at the indispensable Crime Fiction Lover had posted this excellent review of SOLITARY AGENTS. It's an absolute belter and I'm sorry it arrived too late to be included in yesterday's release week roundup, but I guess putting it in here is the next best thing. This particular bit made me very, very happy.\n\n> The universe Goodman has created feels wholly his own and original, in no way a facsimile of those any shaped by other masters of the genre. While he is taking a break to dip his toes into the waters of sci-fi, there are hints this might not be our last interaction with this world.\n\n> Solitary Agents expertly builds on the concepts and characters introduced in A Reluctant Spy, showing that Goodman truly is one of the most exciting new voices in espionage fiction.\n\nONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN ESPIONAGE FICTION! I'll take that, thank you very much. My relief that book 2 seems to be going down well with readers and reviewers remains immeasurable.\n\n**ON DECK:** It's a Writing Friday and my first clear day in a while, so the objective for today is to get just over 29,000 words of Project DRIFT edited and in shape before I (hopefully) make some new progress on the draft next week. I only have three days in the regular routine, Thursday I'm travelling and Friday through to Sunday I will be at Capital Crime, so it's particularly key that I get my ducks in a row beforehand.\n\n**TOOLS AND PROCESS:** I'm _hoping_ that if I can get some drafting momentum in the first half of the week, I might be able to drop into the 'train zone' of productivity on my train to London, where I sit and type and listen to absolutely banging dance music for 3-4 hours and write an absolute tonne. Aside from the office where I do most of my work, long-distance trains are my second favourite place to write. Which is good, because I take a fair few of them.\n\n**LISTENING:** Great episode of the Bloody Scotland podcast, this time with the writers on the festival's board (Abir Mukherjee, Lin Anderson, Craig Robertson and Gordon Brown) talking about their latest books and what they're most looking forward to at the festival. I am _so_ psyched for this year's event.\n\n**WATCHING:** I was in town for work yesterday and visiting family afterwards, so didn't watch any telly, but I did catch this trailer for THE DOG STARS:\n\nIt's based on Peter Heller's book of the same name, which is a beautiful and haunting post-apocalyptic novel that reminded me quite a lot of both STATION ELEVEN and Meg Elison's BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE series, or a slightly more hopeful THE ROAD. This trailer seems like it might be heavier on the action, but I hope they capture some of the bittersweet sadness and flickers of humanity that made the book so good.\n\n**READING:** A bit more of DECEPTION by Alan Parks (Bookshop, Waterstones, Amazon) but progress is slow because I'm tired. Looking forward to digging into it more this weekend.\n\n**LINK:** I burned an inordinate amount of time yesterday on this online game, Anthropeum. It's a very fun game where you're shown a human artefact from the past five thousand years and you have to guess where and when it's from. Both an addictive guessing game and an absolutely fascinating insight into both the uniqueness and the commonalities of human culture. So cool.\n\nI apologise in advance for the productivity hit.\n\n**UP NEXT:** Consolidation edits! Then the weekend (phew) with a quiet one at home planned (double phew). Then it's Capital Crime week and I have to get all my exercise for the week done in three days (because there's no way I'm packing running kit down to London with me), pack for the trip, write each morning and prepare myself to be on stage on Friday morning.\n\nIt's going to be a brilliant weekend though, I can't wait. I can't wait to catch up with everyone who's going along, including a bunch of the friends I've made over the past couple of years.\n\nBut for now, time to get editing.\n\nOnward!\n\n🔗\n\nSome purchase links on this page are affiliate links, which help support this website and my work.",
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