Home, Home At Last

Posted by Colin Harvey Aug 18, 2009

It's a testament to the beneficial properties of Worldcon that even faced with a fourteen or fifteen-hour journey, I was as chilled as chilled could be in the taxi to Dorval Airport .

Even finding that the US had changed their documentary requirements didn't faze me, but two hours delay on the runway at JFK, two hyper-active Dutch Barbies blocking me from the aisle all night while they took endless flash-lit shots of themselves, and by the time I hit London to find the Heathrow Express one-way fare more expensive than my tickets to and from London and Bristol, and I was my usual cranky self.

I fell asleep on the settee at about 7.30 pm, then crawled off to bed, where I awoke at half past midnight and couldn't get back to sleep. Posted some stuff at 2am, then finally crawled back to bed. Still falling asleep in chairs.

Back to the positives. I had a blast. An absolute blast. To anyone asking "Should I go to Worldcon?" the answer is yes - even if you can't afford it, find the money somehow.

I have clarity on forward plans. I'm back on track with the novel, and the artwork is up here. North American publication of Winter Song has --together with the rest of the Angry Robot range-- been delayed until February 2010

But you can still get it from Book Depository UK, in US dollars, with FREE shipping for £6.84. It will come in a handy package from the Royal Mail in about five days. My agent orders all the UK editions of books that she wants that way, and you can get Winter Song in time for this holiday season. You'll notice the link points to Book Depository for you.

Actually writing this blog over the last week has been a weird experience, re-reading and editing scribbled and hastily typed notes a week after the event - it's allowed me to relive a fantastic few days after the events would have faded, but living in parallax has made it harder to adjust to the 'real' world -- whatever that is.