Beast in the Basement

In a big house in the countryside, a recently bereaved and increasingly unstable author toils over a novel which will close the best-selling trilogy of Jade Nexus fantasy books. Speculation and rumour are rife among hardcore Jade Nexus fans that their heroine will die at the novel's conclusion - a possibility against which they loudly protest via social media as the release date nears. How do you deal with grief, under such intense pressure? How do you cope with distractions from your work such as a violent intruder, panicked messages from your agent and a potential love interest moving into the cottage across the field? And far worse than any of those problems... what do you do about the Beast in your basement?