Today was the one year anniversary of my wife Makiko’s death. Naturally a lot of emotions have been running through my mind, and daughter Seren’s. It doesn’t seem like a year, that day of her death will remained engraved on my memory for all time as if it were just a few days ago. I can’t believe I’ve been away from Japan so long, our present existence still feels so temporary, as we’re still in a little apartment in a provincial corner of the UK. The anniversary made us thi

2007 was a hell of a year. I can confidently say the most unforgetable year of my life. I wasn’t going to spell everything out in the blog, but hell with it, here we go. You’ll understand why there have not been any blog entries lately shortly. Read on. The first six months were full of hope and promise. Work was looking good, in February I was in New York for the SCBWI Conference and had a very promising reception from American publishers. This was followed by successful wor