Firebird & Nightingale

Well on the way to cometing my second draft. Write up of a whole host of scribbled notes is now done, fucker is currently standind at about 93,000 words. Have now got a number of changes to go through, all involving very dull things like capitalisation, fonts, use of italics and multiple names.

Then one that’s complete, I get the joy of working on an agent pack.

Woo.

And, indeed, whoo.

Let’s celebrate with a Lego model of Geordi la Forge.

SFX’s Top 25 Scribbles

SFX have just published their top 25 Science Fiction and Fantasy books. You definitely won’t be surprised by the winner, but there are a few eyebrow raisers. Narnia didn’t do too well, and the absence of Gormenghast, The Dark Is Rising and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is oddness indeed. But it’s a solid list, the right Harry Potter book made it up there (Prisoner of Azkaban) and there’s grim satisfaction to be had noting that His Dark Materials trounced The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Take a look...