Absolutely wheezing — 'Apologies, I was not aware that you were Pagliacci himself. Have you considered a giant interdimensional squid holocaust perhaps?'

By the way, do you happen to speak Irish? I've been using Norwegian as one of the languages in the book with help from my lady wife, and wanted to use Irish in a similar fashion for another but wanted to enlist the aid of a speaker so I treat it with the respect it deserves.

Such things as dreams are made of!

My writing taboo is 'vertiginous' and authors lose points whenever they use it - it's a long way down, we get it, but that's no excuse for using a word that sounds like it's a medical term.

This sounds so exciting! Best of luck!

You mentioned you did some RPG writing - have you ever worked with Chaosium?

The greatest anatomical reconstruction of all time, given marvellous flesh!

Blade Runner 2049 is the only movie where he's been an appropriate bit of casting - a self-important messianic lunatic.