The Invisible Library is now out as a physical paperback on amazon.co.uk, as well as a Kindle ebook! And it’s available in Waterstones, and WH Smith, and everywhere…

(Please excuse me while I sniffle into my glass of icewine. Everyone’s been so nice.)

If you’ve been reading it, and you enjoyed it, then I’m very glad. Thank you. Book two is in the pipeline!

The Invisible Library is currently available on Amazon as an e-book, at a reduced price as part of the Twelve Days of Christmas – get it while you can!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Invisible-Library-Genevieve-Cogman-ebook/dp/B00M44051E/ref=zg_bs_279254_3

In other news, I had a lovely Christmas, and am getting over a ferocious cold. These two facts are coterminous but not correlated. Excuse me while I cough.

Book 2 is in edit stages. Book 3 is being written. I will hope that they don’t disappoint.

Should I be waving flags to get attention?

On Monday 15th December, the e-book version of The Invisible Library will be available for purchase.

(The physical version release date is still the 15th January 2015.)

I still can’t quite believe that we’re almost there. I believe it mentally, if you know what I mean, but I have difficulty believing it emotionally. Of course, in three days time I will hopefully be believing it emotionally as well…

A really nice review of The Invisible Library from Megan Leigh!

http://pop-verse.com/2014/12/05/the-invisible-library-saving-books-in-a-place-out-of-time-and-space/

… Yes, The Invisible Library has its faults, but at its core it is a great romp of a story that races along at high velocity.

The front cover for The Invisible Library is now up! You can see it at:

http://torbooks.co.uk/2014/11/13/invisible-library-cover-reveal/

Tor have done a fantastic job. I’m several miles over the moon. Or even over a comet, to be up-to-date in my references.

Two months to go!

WorldCon (or LonCon) was totally awesome.

I’m still in the state of buzzed can’t-quite-believe-it-ness, and it’s (counts on fingers) two days later. Everyone was just so nice. And there were the Tor and Gollancz/Bragelonne parties, and the Seanan McGuire concert, and meeting so many cool people, and interesting panels, and…

(wanders off into distance waving hands around head and trying to explain how cool it was)

(realises that she has work tomorrow at 9am)

(sighs)

So, about to go down south to visit my parents, and while I’m there, I’ll be going to WorldCon. Awesome!

On a side note, I should be getting the proofs of Book One on Monday for final corrections. Must find a red pen and sweat blood, though preferably not at the same time. Everything’s happening at once! Like buses!

And since my trip down to see parents goes through Birmingham while the Quilts UK show just happens to be on at the Birmingham NEC, here’s to some happy fabric shopping tomorrow. Yay, retail therapy! Yay, future quilts! Yay, spending too much!

I’ve just sent back the notes on the copy-edit of book 1. I will now sit in the corner and twitch.

Or perhaps I’ll have a glass of something alcoholic. That sounds like a better idea.

Back to writing on book 3 tomorrow.

(And maybe I’ll reward myself with a little copy-edit complete present. There’s this haori I saw on ebay…)

All I can say is, if it’s true that we borrow from our own real life to write, then Irene is shortly going to be suffering a backed-up drain in her kitchen and rather dubious water backflowing from her washing machine into the sink (though fortunately not getting any further).

Just saying.

Plumber is due tomorrow. Feh.

I’ve had multiple friends recommend the Monument Valley game to me (for iPad, iPhone, etc) and I now have it. Well, technically I’ve now finished it. It isn’t long.

But it is absolutely gorgeous. Escher art, incredibly simple play, barely visible but implied story, told by gentle implication and a few fragments of dialogue, and an epilogue which had me in tears, even though it was happy.

A beautiful, beautiful piece of work.