Up in his office, Mark Gibson shuffled through his creative concepts like a deck of cards, placing his bets. He'd spent the familiar long hours hunched over his laptop, and longer ones scribbling in his bedside notebook. He had portfolios of options, drawers full of thoughts, and absolutely nothing fit to air. He tried to deny it, talked himself up, but the realisation grew stronger. That magic spark had gone. He wondered if it would ever return. If not, he would take matters into his own hands...

Lucas Jones is a professional creative, content and copywriter with 20 years' experience in marketing. Outside his day job, he writes short stories, poetry and is currently drafting his first novel. Lucas lives in South Oxfordshire. England and regularly travels to his other home in Sonoma County, California.