Chales Tan, at Bibliophile Stalker, has posted his Year’s Best. He lists Slights as one of his favourite novels! He also lists Angry Robot as the best new publisher, and I wouldn’t argue with that.
Angry Robot have just released this incredible cover for Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City:
John Picacio is the artist. A talented, charming man.
I finally sorted out the study. It was full of boxes labelled ‘odds and ends’ ‘files and folders’ and ‘papers’, but those boxes are all emptied and distributed. I now have a clear desk, where I can spread out my papers and not have to pack them up every night so we can eat dinner. Making a writer blissful is simple, really!
Hey, no surprise there. It was a great novel and I am glad that organizing everything is falling into place. I hate it when there is a disarray and I can’t find anything, but that is mainly because I have little space to work with. I want to have a desk for myself and a book case, but no such luck.
A desk and a bookcase in your near future, I’m sure. I don’t have a huge space, but it is a space at least.