When I said I would finish the first draft of The Boat of Small Mysteries some time this week, it turns out what I meant was I would finish it this afternoon.
Not much else to say, but I feel like it’s necessary to mark these kinds of things, and celebrate. Go me, I guess!
One of the worst things about LJ being down so often this week is that I use LJ to read my RSS feeds. I not only keep up with my LJ friends, but use LJ’s feed aggregator to read author blogs. If LJ is going to be this flaky in future, that needs to change….
Guess whose author copies of the print second edition of Captain’s Surrender have arrived? Hee! And in a spectacular coincidence they arrived just three days after I’d ordered ten copies to take to the Ely meet-up. (Leading me to think that Samhain had been super efficient. Probably more efficient than is humanly possible.) However, silly…
Remember when I wrote a really long fantasy novel, set in 18th Century Wallachia and the Ottoman Empire, and then it was accepted for publication by Anglerfish Press, and they decided it was uneconomical to produce in one volume because it was over 400 pages long? So they produced it in two volumes – Sons…
Well, the gist of this post is in the title. My lovely editor at Samhain, Anne Scott, emailed me this morning to say “Did you know Bomber’s Moon has a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly?” To which I had to sit down abruptly with the smelling salts (porridge actually) and calm myself before replying. Publisher’s…
I’ve spent the last week making new covers for most of my Riptide books, and now I want to show them off 🙂 The Trowchester Series now looks like this: Blessed Isle now looks like this: Which I’m particularly excited about because Garnet regards the whole story as a message in a bottle cast out…
Now here’s a petition that really should help: Thank you for calling on the European Parliament to save the Internet. Now please help amplify the impact of this campaign. The more of us join, the more powerful it becomes! Send the email below to friends and family, and post this link on your Facebook wall….
