Another Allegiance is still away with Cuzzie. She is nothing, if not thorough. Her progress has been hampered, apparently, by next door installing a new kitchen so she found it impossible to concentrate while all the banging and crashing was going on.

Hopefully,

After more than a month of intensive editing, the book has now gone off to my proofreader for checking. That job belongs to ‘Cuzzie’ my wife’s cousin, who is the only person I know who I can rely on to be ruthless in her assessment. Editing is where so many independent writers fail.