It must be quite a challenge to immerse yourself in the sensory pleasures (or perhaps, conversely, in the dangers and horrors) of winter if you’re obliged to write about these things while the balmy days of summer are filling your real-life world with sunshine, colour and scent.
But if you live in the northern hemisphere, and are a writer of seasonal fiction – which, these days, is an increasingly popular sub-genre of commercial publishing – the chances are you’ll be accustomed to doing just that, because your submission deadline for your
