The fitters come today to furnish the bedroom. By Thursday, we will have a proper bedroom again. A place to hang shirts and trousers and drawers for socks and undies, somewhere to put this PC, printer, scanner . . . instead of having to drape stuff all over the bungalow as we've been forced to do these past two months. There will be a few little odds and ends to take care of over the next week or two, like light fittings, wooden flooring, window blinds, coving . . . and of course, paying for it all.
Yesterday the anthology I'm co-editing with Chris Hall seemed to gel into something almost tangible. We now have a publisher, a line-up of eight great stories including a novella from Bram Stoker Award nominee and British Fantasy Award winner Paul Finch, and a rare story from World Fantasy Award winner Garry Kilworth. Chris is selecting an artist to do the cover, and our publisher - Dybbuk - are talking about a December release. We seem to have gone from an embryonic, inchoate project to something book-shaped in a matter of days.
I'd must thank Jonathan Eyers for letting me use that blinking eye you can see to the left of the screen. Neat, eh? Jon's expansive blog is linked a bit further down. Do visit. And I must thank Chris too for doing all sorts of niggling stuff to get the blinking eye to actually fit there. My first attempt at installing it saw that eye taking up most of this page!
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