Missing Links and Secret Histories

Alas, roofing continues, keeping me in a state of permanent irritation. But I did want to note that my contributor's copies of Missing Links and Secret Histories, from Aquaduct Press, showed up a little over a week ago – wrapped in plastic, fortunately enough, given the tropical storm, so in between roofing irritations, I've been peeking at it. So far I highly recommend Jenni Moody's "Peter Rabbit," Jeremy Sim's "Sanya TM-300 Home-Use Time Machine," and Anne Toole's "Secrets of Flatland," although I should warn you that this last contains some Scandalous Stories about Isoceles Triangles.

I still have to peer at the stories in the beginning of the book, but that should be enough to tell you that this is a marvelously fun book telling various background stories of various fictional characters in Wikipedia style. I have three stories in it: "Godmother," "Marmalette" and "Palatina." The official release date is July, but it seems to be available now from Barnes and Noble and Amazon; keep an eye on Aquaduct's blog for more announcements.

In completely unrelated news, Twitter takes a moment to tell us about Dame Judi Dench's embroidery.