Ben Aaronovitch

You'd think since I'd invented the term for my books that I'd remember how to pluralise sodding vesitigia.

It’s meaningless marketing speak. In that period everything vaguely epic fantasy was compared to Tolkien. Like most marketing blurbs eg. A mix of Harry Potter and CSI it’s whatever sells in America slapped on anything of vaguely similar genre.

See I even did it in the post - it's Art Nouveau - idiot boy.

And now we can add art neuveu to that list as well. It's the bloody *e* at the start - my brain insists it should be *nu*.

Cover of THE POWER THAT PRESERVES by STEPHEN DONALDSON

Yesterday's Word Count = 935
I cab't believe I was 13 when I read this book back in REDACTED.

A REDACTED character has gone all modernist on me. If I wanted to stream of consiousness I'd wouldn't have to employ a copyeditor. Characters ha!

Cover of the ILLEARTH WAR by STEPHEN DONALDSON

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,202
Moving on to Donaldson book 2.

Weirdly I learnt to spell bureaucracy through playing the Infocom game

And don't get me started on effing manoeuvring...

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What is it about bloody "amateur" thaqt I can never spell it correctly first time. I once wrote it by hand twenty times in the hope that it would stik but no... ameter, ammauter...etc etc

Cover of Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson

Yesterday's Word Count = 537
This was the leading edge of the fantasy boom of the late seventies.

That’s so going in a book at the next opportunity

Research - does Navada count as the south west US?

Cover (Arrow Publishing) of THE RITUALS OF INFINITY for Michael Moorcock

Yesterday's Word Count = 684
Moorcock had such a way with titles...

Cover of TESTIMONY OF MUTE THINGS by LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Aha - another Penric and Desdemona novella by Bujold - just in time to save me from doing any further work today 😀

Cover of THE WINDS OF LIMBO by MICHAEL MOORCOCK

Yesterday's Word Count = 595
How about a little bit more psychodelia, oh yeah, grooovy 🙃

For the visually impaired (I forgot to alt text it) the image is of the cover of THE CENTAURI DEVICE by M JOHN HARRISON.

Yesterday's Word Count = 931

If you have a copy, or you know someone who has, please report it to:

Report@phishing.gov.uk

Thanks

I wrote it in a hurry and Bluesky doesn't let you edit after you've sent. Shrug.

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Also I'm at the London Museum of Water and Steam this weekend - hooray - details below...
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Hallo - somebody is sending out fake emails to fellow writers that purportedly from me but I never send unsolicited emaisl directly to people. Please ignore like that. Thank you for you attention on this matter. 😀

Cover of LOOK TO WINDWARD by IAIN M BANKS

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,101
I thinkI skipped his one by mistake...

RESEARCH: Nerd Culture: would it be fair to refer to AO3 as the premiere Fanfiction sharing site in 2020 or has the ever protean internet mutated while I wasn't looking.

Yes I know I'll post that cover tomorropw.

Cover of MATTER by IAIN M. BANKS

Yesterday's Word Count = 785
And now we're caught up with my re-read...

By my standards that was a good day - horrific isn't it?

Sometimes the story takes you somewhere so beautiful and terrifying that you ask yourself - do I want really want to go there and what will the readers think. So in about two years - don't say I didn't warn you 😝