I’ve finished Implied Spaces and delivered it to the publisher. Hurrah for me! Though it scarcely makes any difference to my daily routine, as I promptly jumped into the next project.Which brings me to a sort of useful idea.It occurs to me that, since at least some folks out there will be offering congratulations (or […]

“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other peoples’ lives, never your own.” Gustave […]

The refrigerator is now so full of sauces and condiments that there is no longer any room for actual food.

I’ve been doing two simultaneous rewrites, the final draft of the new novel Implied Spaces, and the proofs of the reissue of my 1987 novel, Voice of the Whirlwind. This was the first time I’d read VotW since correcting the original proofs more than twenty years ago. I’ve been very proud of the book, and […]