I almost missed this, but… You might have noticed that the folk over at Conlan Press recently produced a limited edition of his new ‘Last Unicorn’ novella “Two Hearts”. Well, it seems that it is only the begining of their publishing work with Beagle. Over at their website, Conlan announce:

PETER S. BEAGLE: THE DEFINITIVE SET
When we first started talking to Peter about producing books and audiobooks of his work, he came clean and shared a long-held secret fantasy. “I’ve always wanted,” he said, “to be a boxed set. To have all my different titles available in one unified edition.” To that end Conlan Press is launching a program that will eventually release all of Peter’s books exactly as he has dreamed. Each Definitive Edition volume will be in a carefully-designed, set-matched archival binding, and will be fully illustrated by Peter’s choice of artist. The Definitive Edition series will begin with Peter’s new novel, Summerlong. Other books in the run will be released as they are completed.

Sounds cool to me. The books, mostly, are set to appear between now and mid next year. If you love Beagle’s work, as I do, it’s worth checking out.

i was cuddling sophie, who has an ear infection, when i turned to marianne and asked her if you could get peeps for the ipod. she wasn’t sure. peeps, she seemed to think, were fine, but perhaps a little inflexible. i’ve not seen any peeps myself, so i have to take her word for it. she’s a judge for the aurealis awards this year, so i’ll definitely trust her opinion peeps.

there are a lot of things i like about blogs, and some things i don’t. one thing i really like is that if you read a number of writers’ blogs you begin to get a feeling that there is this constant background hum of creativity happening. neil is writing a short story in brown ink, poppy is almost at the end of a novel, justine and scott are getting ready to head off to mexico to do some writing (how hemingway!), and jeff just posted a short story to his blog. and there’s more. books are being published, stories created. it’s swell.

oh, yeah. still completely in love with the ipod. managed to get 5320 songs onto it in just over a week. it’s half full, so i’m going to slow down a little. must say, though, this is my first apple product and, while i love ipod, the apple software is just appalling. how do those guys make money writing cr*p like that? sheesh.