As another year comes to a close, I am looking forward to 2015, not least for the release of the second volume in the Mac & June trilogy, now titled “Never A Dull Moment”. (I previously wrote that it would be called Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls. Luckily, my illustrious and talented cover designer, Stuart McKay, informed me the title was already taken. Since he did such an admirable job with the first book, and has his finger on the pulse of all things media, I felt obliged to heed his advice. I really need to do my research before shooting off my mouth.)

In Never A Dull Moment, Mac and June will find themselves going on an unexpected trip to the USA. Mac meets a couple of new members of the Meldrum clan, gets to see the Queen, and continues to be led into mostly alcohol-related situations by Grandpa.

So I wish you all the happiest of Hogmanays, a safe and prosperous 2015, and remember, beer before wine, feelin’ fine – wine before beer, feelin’ queer. Slainte!