It’s Friday …
It’s Friday and I’ll confess to having taken things a little easy this week, giving myself a breather having finished the manuscript (ms) for WALL2—working title, The Gathering of the Lost—on 1 January. I’ll be starting serious revision next week, but the main task I’ve been doing this week is the glossary—or “grossary” as I started calling it with Heir, both because it was … um … quite large, and also because of the large number of monsters contained therein … But I love glossaries, especially with “big” stories, as I find they help keep track of the characters, and also artefacts and places within the ms—to me, glossaries are part of the essential “texture” of the epic Fantasy!
I’ve also gone back to the ‘to be read’ pile on the book table this week, which still includes Justin Cronin’s The Crossing and the 3-book set of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series. Since December 19, I’ve also added in Dark Moon, the second in Meredith Ann Pierce’s “Firebringer” trilogy and my friend Beth-Anne Miller’s debut romance novel, Into the Scottish Mist, which is being published on February 4 in the USA . I’ll be doing an interview with Beth-Anne on the Supernatural Underground on 1 February and she will also be doing a guest post here on “…Anything, Really” on February 4 itself.
Also coming up on the interview front is Mary Victoria with Samiha’s Song, the second in her “Chronicles of the Tree” series, which began with Tymon’s Flight. I’ll be interviewing Mary here on 15 February, and am really looking forward to reading the book.
Right now I’m in the middle of William Gibson’s Zero History and enjoying it, almost as much as Spook Country, which I thought was ‘absolutely fabulous.’
So how about you? What are you all reading right now?
I’m looking forward to it too, Helen! Big time. 🙂
Also to the guest blog posts earlier in Feb! That’s going to rock…
I just began reading ‘Baggage’ edited by Gillian Polack and featuring all sorts of fantastic authors. Loving it so far!
I was sorry to miss the launch for that in Melbourne—it’s definitely something I want to check out. As is Samiha’s Song …