What does summer mean to you?
A welcome break from routine in the form of a much-anticipated holiday doing something you love? A chance to let your arms and legs catch a few rays? Or hay fever, insect bites, prickly heat rashes, and more freckles than ever before?
My own Celtic-Anglo-Saxon-and-a-bit-of-Eastern-European complexion doesn’t respond well to even the UK’s sporadic summer sunshine. I’m insanely jealous of friends whose summer skin takes on golden honey tones, while my own burns and blisters.
Love it or hate it, whatever you feel about summer, there’s plenty of seasonal fiction out there for you to enjoy, ranging from upbeat romance to spine-tingling mystery. What would encourage you to write a summery story? As you toughed out our last British winter, did you recall the caressing warmth
