Here's a surprise

And so it's 2009. On January 1st, I started writing a new novel. Why? I'm not sure, but it felt like it was struggling to get out, and fast. The plan is to write it very quickly. I want it finished and with my agent by the end of March. Then I'll finish jG Saves The World. It's not that JG is stuck, or that I don't like it anymore, it's just that this other novel is demanding to be written, and I have to obey. It's been cranking out at around 1500 words a day. Working title? The Money Spinner. It suddenly struck me that we are living through something fairly major in the near-collapse of the banking system, and that I needed to respond to it in the heat of the panic. Reference material: Radio 4's news and comment shows Today and PM, Voltaire's Candide, the people around me.