Every day is kind of the same - sit at a Mac, flick between Entourage, Photoshop, InDesign and Firefox, drink coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon, eat custard creams throughout. And every day is different - the process of designing a cover takes ages and at any one time I'll be working on at least half a dozen titles. I might be working on, say, a vampire love story, a romance anthology, historic fiction, an urban thriller and a graphic novel - in fact that's pretty much exactly what I've got on right now.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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