Phew! What a month!

Well, have I had a challenging month!

First, the signing. Thankyou to everyone who turned up. If I was a bit breathless, it was because the plane that was to take me to Sydney arrived two hours late, due to a wierdly persistent fog that enveloped Melbourne that day. Fortunately I'd allowed two hours to get my luggage to a friend's place once I arrived in Sydney, so by getting a taxi straight to Galaxy books I managed to be only ten minutes late.

Unfortunately this meant I had an enormous suitcase to lug around. Thankyou to Galaxy and Tim of Orbit for minding it for me.

The following Monday I headed up to the Blue Mountains to Varuna. The next day I had a bit of a sore throat. A day later... the flu. So I spent half my two weeks at the retreat so sick I wished I was home in bed with someone to get me pain killers and throat lozengers and the cat curled up beside me. The other half of my time I managed to get 20,000 words written, so I'm now a quarter of the way through writing The Magician's Apprentice.

Of course, a heap of tasks were waiting for me when I got home, including an interview on the new Orbit website. Go check it out.

And now? Well, I'm still recovering from the flu, house extension hitches have left me with a very unreliable internet connection to I can't update my site (and I may even lose this post), my anti-virus program has either gone nuts and is eating fanmail or else I'm suddenly being bombarded with viruses, but I've just received some good news to cheer me up that I'll share just as soon as it's confirmed.

Oh, and a reminder to people using the guestbook: Please. Don't. Post. Spoilers. It always makes me sad when I can't approve messages that say lovely things but include information that will spoil the plot of my stories for new readers. Please be considerate.