All the eights
8/8/08 today, so of course I had to release 8 books at 8 am (well, around 8 am – actually I released them between about 7.45 and 8.30 on my way to work, but releasing all 8 on the dot of 8 would have been a bit impractical):
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- Father Brown by GK Chesterton
- On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya
- The World at Night by Alan Furst
- The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore
- The Left Hand of the Electron by Isaac Asimov
- More from Martha by Jill Tweedie
Yes, I know it’s been a long time since I posted anything, and I really should do a big “what I’ve been doing in the last month or so” update, but I can’t be bothered (after all, most of the reason I haven’t posted for so long has been lack of inspiration, so if I wasn’t inspired to write then, I’m even less inspired to try and remember what it was I didn’t feel inspired to write about), so the short version is: work, study, releasing lots of books, and somewhere in there I managed to hit a couple of milestones: 3000 books registered, and 2500 released! If you really want a more detailed version, you could always go and inspect my bookshelf – looking through my recent releases is usually a good way of tracking everywhere I’ve been 🙂
What I will update you on though, are my recent catches, because there’s been an excitingly large number of them, most producing new members:
- Firebird by Mercedes Lackey
- Never Too Rich by Judith Gould
- The Complete Plays by George Bernard Shaw
- Confessor by John Gardner
- The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age edited by Douglas Angus
- The Sunday Woman by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini
- Hancock by Freddie Hancock and David Nathan
- The Doll and the Kitten by Dare Wright
- Contact Two: Short Stories of the 1960s edited by FES Finn
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Invisible Country by Paul J McAuley
- Disney adaptation of Robin Hood (a second-generation catch!)
- Of Time and Stars by Arthur C Clarke
- Duende by Jason Webster (from my world tour!)
- V by AC Crispin
- Worlds Apart by Nicola Thorne
- Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon
- The Dragon at Noonday by Edith Pargeter
- Lily Makes a Living by Lolo Houbein
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Keeping Baby Safe by Debra Webb
- The Urmal in Space by Max Kruse (sorry, every time I see that title I read it as “The Urinal in Space”!)
- The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
- The Rose Stone by Teresa Crane
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Quiet Professor by Betty Neels
- The Lost City of Zork by Robin Bailey
- Vet in Harness by James Herriot
- Letters from a Solo Survivor by Kathy Keay
All that releasing is definitely paying off!