Oh Anon, what a gorgeous comment! Thank you so very much! I was so pleased I had to restrain myself from just turning round and showing it proudly to the nearest person, who at that time happened to be my mother and the explanations involved would have been rather awkward.

It is actually fiction I write for a living, yes. Well, at the moment it's technically more like "pray SOMEONE will pay for this new thing I'm writing," but yep, that's how I've earned my keep thus far.