Waverton Good Read Award Update and more

The short-list has been announced and Asboville is not on it. Oh well. It feels a bit like the end of an FA Cup run, sort of like getting to the quarter finals or something...which isn't at all bad really but not as good as getting to the final or even winning it. Good luck to the remaining six writers and their novels. It must be said that the Waverton Good Read was a nice award to be in the running for, not least because the books are selected and voted upon by ordinary members of the public. You can't really say fairer than that and you can't argue with it either!

Fidra Books (who are publishing my children's novel Storm Clouds next year) are in the process of producing a mass market edition of The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker. The new cover can be seen here and it looks great! The cover was designed by Snowbooks.

What else? Well apart from re-working Storm Clouds and helping it 'grow up' a bit I'm beginning the process of gathering ideas for the book that will come after the book that will come after Asboville! That's the curious thing about this game. You have to be way ahead of yourself, otherwise they'll be huge gaps between projects and I don't want there to be huge gaps. So things begin with trying to find a subject or situation that inspires. It might be a song lyric or something somebody says. It might be a story I read on the web or in a newspaper. It might be a line out of a novel...