Ownership. Not really in dispute, then.

So I was posting only yesterday about not being sure whose bed it was, when I woke in the night?

Heh. Not much doubt this morning. Must've grown colder; I woke up in the darktime and there were two cats - two! - claiming possession, one at my knees and one at my shoulder. Myself, I was scrunched up in the last six inches against the wall, where they had no doubt rolled me in an unusual communal effort.

Also, it was apparently bathtime for Barry, which might be why I'd woken up. He's a noisy washer, and right by my ear, and there isn't much else going on at 5am.

Baz has been a rare visitor these last few months; I'm not really sure where he's been sleeping, only not with me. It's nice to have him back. Even at the price of an early waking, and being too much of a wuss to make him move despite the growing discomfort and wanting to turn the radio on and and and.

(This post brought to you from the Lit & Phil, where I'm supposed to be working but not so much, really. I'm unaccountably tired, and mostly I just want to go home and read books. I have many books to read - new Iain Banks, new William Gibson, Hannu Rajaniemi, I'm halfway through GGK's latest... Students get a reading week sometimes. I want one.)

Desdaemona - the cover!

And at last it can be told. Shown. Whichever.

You will know, those of you who've been paying attention, that I have a new book coming out next year in a new genre with a new publisher, as from a new persona: Desdaemona, by Ben Macallan, from Solaris. It's an urban fantasy, which genre I haven't really splashed about in since Dead of Light/Light Errant, which of course starred one Benedict Macallan in the narrative role. Do you see what I did there? Young Ben has made the shift at last, from autobiography to fiction...

Anyway: the cover art for Desdaemona is by Vincent Chong. And here it is:

( behind a cut, for added teaser-value )

Timing

If I have this right, then while I eat my steamed dumplings, the cabbage and the noodles will be cooking in the soup above which the dumplings steamed: and will thus be exactly ready for me when I am ready for them.

*experiments*