…Come see me and Anna Caltabiano talking about The House of Shattered Wings and The Time of the Clockmaker! Drinks and nibbles! Scintillating conversation! Books! Awesome covers! Blackwell’s, 50-51 High Holborn, WC1V 6EP London. The event is free: you can get your tickets here….

…s not require a lot of people, but does require time. Luckily, those rolls freeze well: fry them halfway, let them cool down, and you can resume frying when you’ve defrosted them. A handy trick the H and I found for making fried rolls faster is the half-baking half-frying method: you can cook the rolls in a 180°C-oven for 20 minutes, until they’re starting to turn a pale golden yellow; and then put them in your deep-frying bath for 3-6 minutes to…

…’s currently missing, but the basic plot is starting to be reasonably leak-free. At chapter 16 out of 25. Going to watch a few episodes of Chevalier D’Eon now, a decidedly odd anime set in France during the reign of Louis XV. Gorgeous backdrops, but obviously done by someone who had very little idea of the history of Paris–for instance, the obelisk of La Concorde was brought back by Napoleon, about 50 years after Louis XV; the big, large airy stre…

…individual posts like this one, which involved some hacking of the php, accompanied by some forays into the WordPress documentation (in case you’re wondering what I’m talking about, it’s the small “Next Post/Previous Post” thingies below the frame of individual posts, which weren’t included in the standard free WordPress theme I based the website on). Also updated the Servant of the Underworld page with information for preordering on Waterstone’s…

…f Penlai Station. In those moments, she could almost imagine herself to be free. Quite curious to see the reaction to this one, as it was a bit of a challenge: it’s got a completely different scientific history of the world, a weird melding of science and religion, and it’s entirely told from the point of view of insiders to the culture (unlike “The Lost Xuyan Bride”, where having a European as the viewpoint character made a number of things easie…

…tastic labour of love podcasting some awesome fiction, and some very smart commentary. (And, hum, yes, among the fiction they featured was my own “After the Fire”, which got one of the best narrations ever courtesy of Kate Baker). The point of this is mostly to spread the word about podcast eligibility to a maximum of places, not so much campaigning–at least not yet… Feel free to repost, link, retweet, etc. More details here about podcast eligibil…

…e, if I’d actually read them. In SF, I’m still catching up on years of not really reading…) ` Currently in the middle of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (right after the battle of Red Cliffs, which is interestingly not at all like the movie version…). You know that Chinese proverb that says the young shouldn’t read Water Margin because it teaches disobedience, and the old shouldn’t read Three Kingdoms because it teaches guile? Well, after almost 60…

…as two paragraphs of doctor biography), and the inside has the menu (which comes in three flavours: French, English and French children’s menu). Me: “So we’re agreed on this, I’m sending the layout to the parents so they can comment on it.” H: “Yup, looks good to me with this colour choice.” Me: “And then I’m stopping until we have the green light from them. I still have to write 23 bits of text for every table, and if we change the layout I’d hav…

…I will be mostly off the grid. I might be checking emails sporadically; but this isn’t guaranteed. I might be posting if I get a free minute; but again, not guaranteed. (exceptionally, there won’t an SFnovelists post forthcoming on August 28th, due to major time crunches. Next post due in September). Also, any good wishes for stellar weather on the 28th in the region of Brittany are much appreciated. There will be pics when I come back….

…just seen there’s a newish album, Promised Land. Shiny. -Tracy Spuelher. I downloaded a couple free songs from amazon, “Hummingbird” and “Where do we go now”, which I found pretty good–catchy, with good lyrics and a nice mood. I listened to her newer albums, which are even better–and I gave in and bought an entire album off itunes (which I never do, because I hate not being able to transfer music where I want). So, any other cool singers in the sa…