I need a sticky

The BSFA nominations are out.  Congratulations to all the nominees! 

I am fighting off a cold.  Within five minutes of getting off the bike yesterday I’d curled up in a ball and slept for an hour in the middle of the day, woke up with sore throat and headache.  So I banged some of that Vicks preventive squirty stuff up my nose and in my misery with the dregs of our Sky subscription watched three episodes of Stella in a row.  (Our TV gets cut off today for reasons of budget.) 

Today’s better.  Thanks to having Midnight Oil in my I-tunes, I am still writing and I don’t want to jinx anything so I won’t say anything.  Except.  What jinx-free thing can I say?  Writing this book makes me even more poignantly conscious how much it felt like dying to write Lightborn.  Writing this new book makes me aware that no matter how scary the process can be, if the excitement is even one fingernail ahead of the fear then I am doing all right. Right now excitement is high.

And that’s what it’s about.  How could I forget? I need a sticky for the inside of my eyeballs.  Gratitude is the attitude for me in 2012.  I’m so grateful for every damn writing session.

And here’s a tidbit: Ian Whates has taken my very tiny story ‘Electrify Me,’ for his Dark Currents anthology, to be released at Eastercon.  The list of contributors includes Nina Allan, Finn Clarke, Emma Coleman, Aliette de Bodard, Jan Edwards, Andrew Hook, V.C. Linde, Una McCormack, Sophia McDougall, Adam Nevill, Rebecca J Payne, Rod Rees, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lavie Tidhar and Neil Williamson. Good stuff, right?

And here’s the cover, by Ben Baldwin.