Displacement
Jan. 6th, 2008 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIf cat- or other hoovering is what occurs when one is displacing work, what does one call those distractions that tumble into play when one is displacing the hoovering?
'Specially when they're work-related?
I pause in my endeavours, simply to point out:
(a) that I have been interviewed for the little magazine "Visionary Tongue", which is now out, contact visionarytongue@hotmail.co.uk (there is a website - www.visionarytongue.co.uk - but for some reason I can't get past the first page); and that my interview therein sits back to back with a story by m'friend'n'publisher Ian Whates, which is convenient, because it acts as a prompt for
(b) which is the most oblique plug you may yet have seen for a book, because I don't want to pre-empt any public announcement, but I do feel entitled to murmur that two stories from Ian's "DisLOCATIONS" anthology have been selected for a major year's-best antho. Which for a slim volume from a tiny publisher in a very competitive global market is damned impressive. (In the interests of clarity and ego-unboo, I should point out that my own Terminal is not one of them; but it's still not too late to nominate it for a BSFA award! Act now!!)
Oh, and
(c) the third "Phantoms at the Phil" volume of ghost stories - two each by Sean O'Brien, Gail-Nina Andersen and me - is now available for sale, for a mere ten quid. Beautiful hardback volume, bargain of the century. Buy now. While I hoover. I need some reward, damn it...
'Specially when they're work-related?
I pause in my endeavours, simply to point out:
(a) that I have been interviewed for the little magazine "Visionary Tongue", which is now out, contact visionarytongue@hotmail.co.uk (there is a website - www.visionarytongue.co.uk - but for some reason I can't get past the first page); and that my interview therein sits back to back with a story by m'friend'n'publisher Ian Whates, which is convenient, because it acts as a prompt for
(b) which is the most oblique plug you may yet have seen for a book, because I don't want to pre-empt any public announcement, but I do feel entitled to murmur that two stories from Ian's "DisLOCATIONS" anthology have been selected for a major year's-best antho. Which for a slim volume from a tiny publisher in a very competitive global market is damned impressive. (In the interests of clarity and ego-unboo, I should point out that my own Terminal is not one of them; but it's still not too late to nominate it for a BSFA award! Act now!!)
Oh, and
(c) the third "Phantoms at the Phil" volume of ghost stories - two each by Sean O'Brien, Gail-Nina Andersen and me - is now available for sale, for a mere ten quid. Beautiful hardback volume, bargain of the century. Buy now. While I hoover. I need some reward, damn it...