The last couple of weeks have been spent relatively snowed-under. There has been a lot of literal weather, a whiteness has blanketed landscapes and along with it, various parts of my mind. Really, I could just sum things up with this:
I can’t tell if it’s worse to walk through
a forest with a path or without (a path).
damage done and damage made.
can I be gentle?
I mean
can I be gentle
— Lily Wang
WORK-RELATED NEWS:
I've now seen in person the cover for Eating the Sun. I couldn't open the envelope until the following day for nerves, waiting-for-the-right-moment-or-the-right-weather, but I liked it tremendously, and there isn't really much else I can say about it, because it's bizarre and lovely and it isn't possible to project excitement in that context, so I looked upon it and mainly thought 'ah ha, yes, yes' while still not quite being able to imagine how it will look wrapped as a hardback around one hundred and sixty pages of my head.
The Kirkus review is now online in full, and is astonishing mostly because the word 'panache' is used.
RELATED-TO-SOMETHING NEWS:
Rather or relatively overdue, but I have finally set up a system whereby one can order prints of the illustrations in Lost in Translation. There is currently a small selection from the book in the 'store' link on my website, although I fully intend on adding more, and also adding some from The Illustrated Book of Sayings too. If you are one of the people who has been patiently waiting for me to sort this out, thank you—you are more than welcome to email me demanding that particular illustrations be added.
I've created a discount code of 'NEWSLETTER' that can be entered during the checkout part in proceedings, and this will allow you free shipping.
They are printed and shipped by a UK-based company, who I've chosen not only because they offer a sustainable, 90% bamboo fibre paper that lends itself wonderfully to this type of artwork (to giclée printing generally), but also because they ship worldwide, are a small team, and lack pretension entirely.
(Below is a good example, a good evidence, of the level of madness I reached while setting all of this up.)
THIS WEEK I FELL IN LOVE WITH:
These birds of varying beak length, by photographer Lukas Griffin.
There doesn't need to be much else said after that many wings, after that many varying-beak-size birds.
The end.
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