desperance

Just realised, I neglected to post the actual week's totals. Not that it matters, demonstrably, but they are these:

12,072 words
37 pages

I'm content with that. Not happy, exactly (why yes, my eyes are also wider than my stomach; but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, etc), but content. In a discontented kind of way.

In other news: I'm British, I shall talk about the weather. Which has, finally, turned. It's the last day of October, and I have just put the middleweight duvet on the bed, after sleeping this last month under the summerweight one in an unheated bedroom and being entirely comfy. Half the leaves are still, absurdly, on the trees; the other half are dancing on the blustery wind, and Barry is trying to slay them through the windows. This is noisy. And frustrating for him, and winceworthy and gigglemaking both at once for me.

In other news: here (courtesy of

bugshaw) are all the details for Thursday night's event at Heffers in the Grafton Centre, Cambridge:

This Thursday, 2nd November, there will be a Science Fiction and Fantasy evening at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge's Grafton Centre. It starts at 6:30pm; tickets are required, £2 redeemable against a purchase on the night. Contact Sarah Whyley at 01223 568573 or herfirstname.herlastname @ heffers.co.uk

Authors attending are:
Neal Asher
James Barclay
Chaz Brenchley
Mike Carey
Mark Chadbourn
Steve Cockayne
Sam Enthoven
Jon George
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Peter F Hamilton
Amanda Hemingway
Simon Hendley
Erin Hunter
Paul Kearney
Juliet E McKenna
Eoin McNamee
Stan Nicholls
Justina Robson
Mark Robson
Jessica Rydill
Angie Sage
S F Said
Matthew Skelton
Ian Whates