Greetings and felicitations, stalwart readers. (I’ve read that “gentle reader” is a cliché that will make prospective agents reading up on you and deciding if you’re going to be a Dream Client or one from a Clive Barker nightmare throw up a little in their mouths, so have decided to change it to “stalwart”. Actually, you need to be a bit stalwart to continue reading my blog, imo, so maybe that’s (finally) a change we can believe in! Happy sigh.)

Short one today because I posted at Novel Spaces on Vandana Singh, her wonderful story, “The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet” (I can’t quite get used to the American standard of capitalising the beginning of every word in a title), and speculative fiction. Comments are bare — alas and alack — so any nuggets of wisdom from you would be verily appreciated.

Can you tell I’m on a Blackadder binge at the moment?