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12:34 GMT, Monday 7th April 2008. Lunch break. Sitting at my workstation with a mug of tea, following a delish spicy chicken pasty.
A stressful morning was interrupted by a beam of sunlight. A brown package from LULU…“Shadows of the Quantinex”.
This is my proof copy and the first time I’ve seen it in print. It looks great, although I’m so excited about having it in my hands I can’t focus long enough to give it a proper read-through. That’ll be an on-going task to slip into periods between writing EDGE over the next few weeks. I’ve already spotted a couple of typos – this is to be expected as it is a Beta-version - which I'll fix, along with any other issues I might find, hopefully including feedback from the people who have already found / bought copies.
Meanwhile, the weekend was very good and very long. I’m now ploughing through Chapter 25 and up to 38,500 words on Edge.
I woke up Sunday morning to see the city and rolling hills of the surrounding countryside covered in snow. Took a break in the afternoon, dug out my old mini-disc player, had to sellotape the battery compartment shut; drove to the edge of the river and did some of the walk that follows the river along to Bath, or back into the city.
Djr