During the writing of the novel, I kept a hand-written notebook which records the day-by-day development of the novel as it found its shape and style. The notebook – now in print form – reveals how a vast cluster of thoughts was sifted, selected, structured and polished into novel-form.

Planning I Gave You Life 

is available as a free download.

Copies of the notebooks may be downloaded and printed for personal use. The notebooks are copyrighted and are not to be copied for distribution or circulation by any means. Short quotations may be cited for review purposes or as attributed references in other works.