Panel and ciabattary

Okay. I have made the ciabatta dough, and risen it, and divided it, and set it to rise again. (Come to think, counting the sponge last night, this is the third time. I can bake God?)

I do have to say that without exception, this is the nastiest, wettest, stickiest dough I have ever had to work with (and the recipe says, quite loudly, Do Not Add More Flour! So I didn't. Eww). It better make good bread, or I am looking elsewhere next time.

Meantime, while it rises again, I have to do a panel over at Flycon. You will find me pontificating under "Hard-boiled Fantasy". If you're quick.

Hanns Heinz Ewers - a notorious plug (for someone else's book)

Hanns Heinz Ewers produced some of the strangest writing of the early 20th century. His life was not quite so exotic, but it didn't fall short by far.

He is still little known and less published in English, but m'friend John of Sidereal Press is doing his best to attend to that. In collaboration with the Ewers estate, he's published a new collection of the classic short stories, together with some that have not been translated before. The book is a stunning collector's item in a limited edition. You need this book, and the literary world needs you to buy it, as proceeds from this will fund the next volume, and so on until Ewers' entire oeuvre has been translated and published. Yay.