Fri, 11 Jul 2003
In print
Got home half an hour ago to be welcomed by a fat envelope containing
three hardcover copies of
Singularity
Sky. This is the culmination of endless
hours (days, weeks, months ...) of work, a project I started
in 1996 and which at times looked as if it would never get
anywhere. My first novel, in hardcover, from a major
publisher. Never mind the serialisation of another novel
in a relatively obscure magazine, or the poorly produced short story
collection from a small publishing house: this is the real
thing. Wow.
I suppose at this point I ought to come out with some kind of
platitude about it making the effort seem worthwhile, but I
can't do that. The appearance of a book is
mundane in the extreme ... what makes it feel so odd is the
memories attached to the process of writing it and the work
that came after along the weary road to getting it into print.
(As an aside for those of you who've ordered copies:
they've been printed -- these aren't proofs, they're final
copies --
and they were posted to me about two weeks ago,
which means your own orders are almost certainly already in the
pipeline.)
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