home at last

I'm back from the Writers of the Future bash in Seattle (a blast) plus a brief holiday in Thailand (a long-needed recharge). Back to numerous deadlines. Nothing new there. :-) The Hanging Mountains CEM needs to be edited and in the mail by next week; I have Masters course-work to catch up on; The Changeling God is about four weeks behind schedule and still needs a title. But it's brilliant to be cold again, and this is the best time of the year to be in Adelaide. Hurrah!

For photos of WOTF, Cat Sparks has a great gallery here.

Cheers,
Sean

PS. Good news to follow...

review of GEODESICA: ASCENT

Cath Ortlieb had this to say in the Journal of the Australian Science Fiction Foundation:

"I never thought I'd be grateful to be stuck for over two hours in a doctor's waiting room, but I was as it enabled me to read uninterrupted. The story has many elements: relationships, intrigue, space battles, what should be sacrificed for 'peace and order', nanotechnology and even the nature of privacy.
"The only frustrating thing about the book is that it is obviously the first part of a series and I can't wait for the next installment."

I'm expecting the ms of the second book for editing any day now. It's still scheduled for January next year. I hope people like it as much as the first one...

S

Germany crumbles

Thanks to the sterling efforts of Danny Baror and Richard Curtis (inspired in no small part, I'm sure, by Pyr and Lou Anders' fine resurrection work of their own) The Resurrected Man has sold in Germany to Heyne Verlag. Date and format presently unknown, but I'm celebrating anyway. Hurrah!

S