Mememememe

[desperance]

Shameless self-promotion seems to be a legitimate meme around here, which I think entitles me to point out that Artie has posted a review of 'Bridge of Dreams' in his blog. Which cheers me enormously, as I sit here confronting rewrites on 'River of the World'. I do kind of like rewriting, this micro-level of engagement with a text suits me well (I have a copy-editor's soul, with all the pedantry, logophilia and eye-for-the-minutiose that that implies); but I have read the first fifty pages of the book and scribbled all over them, and it would take at least the rest of the day to work out those scribblings into actual rewritten text, and actually it doesn't work like that because I reread on screen as I go and spot other changes, other cuts, and the book needs them and my editor needs them done but most of all my editor needs the book, and aaargh! - where's a classic SF time-anomoly trope when you need one?