It’s hard to focus on anything fully when you’re caught up in the maelstrom of moving house, one of my least favourite activities in the world, ever. It looks like we’re into the endgame now though, so my dreams of spending the second half of this year researching, planning and beginning actual written work on my new book may yet come to pass.
In the meantime, I’m pleased to report that I’ve completed the final draft of the new Martin story and the revisions of the earlier pieces in the set, and so my mini-collection The Silver Wind is now complete.
I’m happy with the way it turned out. Watch this space for publication details.
No sooner had I sent the ms off to David Rix at Eibonvale than I had an article on Robert Aickman to finish – that’ll be in next month’s issue of Starburst Magazine. It was a real rush to meet that deadline, but I can’t really complain, because reading and thinking about Aickman is a singular pleasure. His story ‘The Swords’ is just so damn brilliantly weird, and ‘Ringing the Changes’ holds – bizarrely perhaps – such happy memories for me because hearing the Jeremy Dyson radio adaptation in 2000 was my first ever encounter with Aickman’s work.
Currently indulging myself with Stephen King’s most recent clutch of novellas, Full Dark No Stars. That’s rare steak on the skillet perhaps after the refinements of Aickman, but by God that man can tell a story.
With so much dashing, rushing and packing it’s hard to believe that less than a fortnight ago Chris and I were in Paris……
