writing

I have to head off for an editorial lunch in a while, but at the moment am taking a break from a short story - I realised last week, via a prompt from Marty, that the special edition of DEMON needs added value, and this is going to be in the form of a short story in the book. Unfortunately, I hadn't written one, but then a story came along, fully formed. It's a joy to write. I wish they were all like this, but they're not. Some of mine have taken years and they're still not cooked...

Princess P

About to head out, I applied some perfume. Normally, cats don't like that, but my hostess' puss woke up, got off the bed, headed for my wrist and sniffed and sniffed - 'why, is that Jo Malone you're wearing! Delightful!'

I have never met such a refined cat as this.

Oh dear

My editorial lunch has led to this:

Weekly Grocery Lists for Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, Summer, 1962:

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I still haven't seen BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. I just don't fancy it, somehow, but I'm not all that keen on love stories whatever the components might be.

We came, we saw, we went to Borders....

A highly entertaining editorial lunch was followed by the bookshop. Many thanks to fastfwd for interviewing me at tonight's Borders gig. A solo effort, due to my co-author being suddenly in Kenya, but a good audience - and Pat, bring your friend from Carnival Diablo on Thursday if possible! I can't promise we'll be as rock and roll as the Sex Garden but hey, you never know till you try.

We spent a limited and sober amount of time in the Ben Crouch afterwards, discussing SNAKE AGENT. Someone asked me if I feel a need to ground the magic in it: the answer is no. And the reason for that is that it's based so much on Hong Kong, where - for instance - you have a whopping big hotel with an enormous hole in it, so that the dragon in the hill behind the hotel can see the sea. Well d'uh! Naturally.

Then I came back to my hostess' place and the news over the phone that we might be getting another one of these.