44 King Street 26/03/05
Let’s ramble. Cat Sparks has put up her latest batch of Swancon photos. I hope she’ll send one of the Daikaiju launch to Locus. Sadly, the photo of me (above) is pretty much what I look like right now (note the strategically placed double-chin hiding hand). I’ve been stacking on the weight, which I can desperately ill-afford to do, so I’ve got to do something before World Fantasy or I won’t fit on the plane. I’ve also got to get refocussed on what’s important. My big mea culpa for 2005 is that I’ve hardly read anything at all. Haven’t been reading the short fiction that much, and only really looked at the books listed on the sidebar of this page. That means, from January to April, I’ve basically read some great YA fiction, a few interesting novels, a handful of stories, and watched a lot of Buffy at home. I’m hoping to use the arrival of Marianne’s mum on Saturday (she’s flying in from the US to spend three weeks visiting) to snap me out of this. Get exercising, dieting etc, and get back onto working.
And with work in mind: a new project. It’s not official (or won’t be for about a week), but I’m taking a step in the wayback machine and doing a project with an old friend that I’m really excited about. It’s a purely for the love of it job, which seems right at the moment. This doesn’t mean that I don’t love The Starry Rift, The New Space Opera, or any of the other books. It’s just different. Actually, one of the great things about blogging is that it gives me a chance to run through the things that are happening, and that makes me appreciate them more. I’m loving doing this anthology stuff. It might not last, I don’t know if it will make money, but damn it’s fun.
