

My girlfriend’s son was at home having online lessons and after school he would be on his Xbox – I just couldn’t concentrate with all the background noise. Then Christmas came and I didn’t have as much time and in January I didn’t write anything. I wrote the first four and a half chapters at home because my girlfriend was out at work and her son was at school. The ‘How we Succumb’ is in reference to the character succumbing to the darker side of life as she progresses through her transformation and how her victims eventually succumb to her. It’s called Death by Candlelight: How we Succumb. I had to tone the violence down otherwise I would cater only to the horror crowd where I wanted a broader readership. The sex is way, way, way more graphic than the violence. During the course of the book she accidently kills someone during sex play, which triggers a repressed memory and sends her on a revenge killing spree. It’s been there long enough for me to kind of work out the beginning and the end it’s the little bits in between that I had to find. I’ve had the idea for the book since around 2010. That inspired me to write my book because I’m dyslexic and have ADHD and I thought ‘if he could do it, so can I’.
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At the end of the first lockdown I came back to work, and on the TV there was a retired dyslexic gentleman who said he wrote a book using predictive text on his phone. I just sat around bored looking at Facebook videos in the early hours because I was suffering from insomnia.

Being a hair stylist, when lockdown happened I couldn’t work – it was illegal. I’ve worked in the same barber shop, Blades in the City of London, since 2008. I was born in Cape Town but have been living in London since 2007. Kevin Goodman, who wrote his novel Death By Candlelight: How We Succumb over lockdown Kevin Goodman, Death By Candlelight: How we succumb I spoke to three people who managed to polish off their debut book, one writing from a deserted paradise island, another from a freezing barber shop in the City of London.
