The SFWA doohickey arrived yesterday. Trumpets and shouting. This is the actual award itself, this massive great Perspex, or similar, thing with embedded planets and galaxies and my name on a plaque at the bottom. It freaking WEIGHS. I peeled it out of the box and, you know, it’s kind of a wow. Modesty forbids…
Month: June 2023
Excuses, excuses
The big problem about living with ME—all right, one of the big problems, but for me they’re all kind of organised around this one—is that you have no slack. None. Zero. Or sub zero. −459.67 °F , say, it’s cold down here. & that short chain you’re on burns in the cold. Another definition for ‘slack’…
Yes. It’s a flying piano.
& you thought it was just a ridiculous, off the wall name, didn’t you? The kind that a slightly off-the-wall herself fantasy writer who has maybe had an unwise second glass of champagne & is sitting in a pleasant haze of bubbles might come up with? As suitable for her new blog? No. My piano…