A year later, we published a sequel - The Dark Eye, again featuring Saxon and her female lover, Detective Chief Inspector Grace Fitzgerald, this time teaming up to investigate an apparently politically motivated killer, known as The Marxman. After a change of agent and publisher, two more novels in the series followed - The Judas Heart (2007) and Circle Of The Dead (2008), both published by Penguin Books.
By this time, however, the editor at Penguin who had championed the books had left for Australia, and, sadly, our new agent died. Feeling like we were back at square one, and not knowing how to start over, Ingrid Black slipped off the radar. In time, the books fell out of print and copyright reverted to us as the original authors.
At various points over the next few years, we toyed with the idea of releasing the Saxon stories as e-books. It seemed silly not to. They represented many years of work. Why not give them a new lease of life?
We set up a Twitter account in the name of Ingrid Black to prepare for publication. Our first tweet: "Now all I have to do is figure out how you put a book on Kindle, and I'll be a millionaire by Christmas. That's how it works, right?" Though, of course, it wasn't done by that Christmas. Or the next one. Procrastination was our middle name.
