Our break started with fellow Gollancz author Alex Bell’s small but perfectly formed launch party for her first novel, The Ninth Circle. As well as fine food, fine wine and fine company, this featured the largest chocolate fountain I’ve ever seen. Then off, happy but slightly hung-over, to Wales. Portmeirion was as marvellous as ever. […]
I’ve escaped, which may have been a mistake
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 7 May 2008 0
Don’t worry ma, it’s only science fiction
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 24 April 2008 0
I’ve now reached the ‘Aha, so it is SF after all’ stage of Consorts of Heaven. Actually I’m hoping the reader will have spotted it’s SF long before this, even if the truth still isn’t yet obvious to most of the characters. Although I am an SF writer (despite being dubbed one of the ‘Three […]
Chasing goalposts
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 17 April 2008 0
I’ve been about three quarters of the way through the ‘Consorts’ rewrites all this week. That’s not to say I haven’t been working hard – I’ve (re)written the best part of four chapters over the last five days. However, I’m now reaching some of the more hastily written sections, which I’ve had to re-think drastically. […]
Fiction – 1: Reality – 0
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 11 April 2008 0
I’ve got to a (relatively) easy bit in ‘Consorts’. Stuff is happening and the characters are reacting – there’s not many ways things can go. As a result, I’ve not done much actual re-writing, more just tightening things up. By next week they’ll be making rods for their own backs again, which is more work […]
Progress
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 5 April 2008 0
I got the page proofs for ‘Principles of Angels’ back to Gollancz in time, despite the best efforts of the Royal Mail. (Note to lazy eejit in central London sorting office: your cunning plan to claim that the recipient of the Special Delivery ‘before 1pm’ was out in order to save actually delivering the parcel […]
Not dead, just dead busy
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 27 March 2008 0
Well, I survived Eastercon, even if my voice didn’t. Amongst many other firsts at the con (being interviewed, being hypnotised, being sober quite a lot of the time), I did my first non-verbal program item, due to a bout of laryngitis. Green Room came up trumps and made me cue cards for the ‘Sex and […]
Eastercon
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 20 March 2008 0
This time tomorrow I should be at Eastercon, on one of my first panels as a ‘pro’. I’m a bit ambivalent about this, for a number of reasons. Firstly, though I (or rather my hard-drinking, role-playing, costume-wearing alter ego JW) went to a lot of cons back in the mists of the last century, I’ve […]
Across the trackless wastes
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 13 March 2008 0
Though the recent weather here has turned the local countryside into something of a trackless waste, or perhaps a scene reminiscent of the Somme, the wastes that are occupying my mind at the moment are the fictional, slightly Welsh, and possibly rather wordy ones in ‘Consorts of Heaven’. I am, technically, a third of the […]
Falcata Times Interview
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 6 March 2008 0
M the Uber-geek has done his magic and put a PDF of the interview I did recently up on the site. You can find it under ‘Links’. where he’ s created a new section called ‘Interviews’, as there may be more to come. If you do check it out, I must apologise for the pun. […]
Up for air
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 4 March 2008 0
I’m about a quarter of the way into the rewrites for Consorts, and it’s rather taken over my life. Because I am that rare beast, a writer who prefers rewriting to first draft, I don’t mind too much (though I’m aware that I’m shamefully neglecting Beloved, who is currently laid up after a knee op). […]