Yesterday's launch of Masques

Banner day, yesterday! I went to my very first launch of something that had a story of mine in it. And not only a launch! Not only! But a signing. People waited on line to get the signatures of the authors who could make it to the event, and that included me! (Sadly, it did not include my Clarion and TOC buddy Jason Fischer, for whom it would have been an onerous commute. It's okay, mate, I flew the Clarion South 2007 flag well! And the Wollongong flag on behalf of Cat Sparks and Richard Harland.)

I post for you some photos taken by my publicist, Margaret Dunleavy. (The second one in particular conveys the giddy whirl of the event: the eager throngs; the blur of pen on paper as signatures are scrawled, one after the other; the exhilaration of actually seeing one of my writing dreams come indisputably true. Those are my blurry hands on the right side of the photo, passing a signed copy to the author on my left — Nicole — and waiting for one from the author on my right — Phill.)




Many thanks to editors Gillian Polack (spelled it right this time, Gillian!) and Scott Hopkins, and to the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, for putting together the anthology, buying my story, putting on a great launch, and being generally terrific. Anytime y'all want another one of my stories, I'm good with that. An-y-time. And thanks to Margaret for being my publicist on the day!

And today there appeared in the Illawarra Mercury a very nicely written piece about Masques, a significant portion of which was taken up by an interview with me! Another writing dream come true! (I clicked on the "Weekender" link on the site, which should have given me access to the story online, but the page was empty. Sigh. Maybe they only post the content after the weekend is over. If it appears, I'll post the link here.)

You can buy Masques directly from the CSFG.