After writing the first draft of Reasonable Lies, I listed all the characters as part of the planning process. On writing their names down, I realised that eight out of ten names began with the letter J. At the time, I was with my husband and we both found it hilarious. We then had to have a brainstorm session to come up with new names for eight of my characters. The finished manuscript was around 30,000 words longer than my first draft, and I did edit out the chapter planned describing the funeral as I felt it wasn’t needed in the end.