I’ve been getting a lot of people asking recently when the next Space Team book is coming out, and why I went from writing a new book every two months to not writing any in three years.

The honest answer is that I’ve turned to a life of crime. Not literally obviously – I wouldn’t be admitting that to you here in writing – but I’ve been moonlighting as Scottish crime fiction author, JD Kirk.

Obviously, comedy science-fiction and Scottish crime fiction are quite different genres, but there’s a lot of similarities between both series of books. They are, ultimately, about a dysfunctional group of people who find themselves thrown together, and gradually become a little sort of family. Only, instead of aliens and spaceships, it’s got serial killers and child abduction.

If you want to check out the books, find out more at jdkirk.com or follow JD Kirk on Twitter.