Champagne and Socks

I’m very sleepy so I’m going to write this fast else I’ll probably not get to it for another couple of days.

Much has happened. Yesterday I had a fabulous day, all up. I gave notice for my day job and accepted a job offer for a new one – same organisation, completely different location. It’ll be different work too, which I’m looking forward to – change is as good as a holiday and all that. Course with the winding down of the year and the winding up of my role, it’s getting harder to be dedicated to silencing the squeaky wheels. Much to do, so little left of the year.

Also. Yesterday we had a massive thunderstorm. Not really a big deal unless you live in a city that is drying and rain is less and less common and more and more of an event when it does happen. We had a real and mighty thunderstorm. I absolutely loved it. I finished work, ran postal errands and then picked C up from the train and we headed off for coffee before meeting up with T and Kathryn for dinner. We hung out in the Imp having coffee when the storm and rain began and I told C this was my favourite thing to do – sit in a funky cafe, drinking coffee (I had hot chocolate) and listen to a storm outside. Then we headed off to browse Crow Books which was our meeting place and I declared book buying/browsing in a bookstore, listening to a thunderstorm outside my favourite thing to do. You see the pattern. Anyway, I picked up some books, we bumped into T there and then we headed to Cinnamon for dinner. We had a lovely catch up and then it was time to go home. I drove home in that lightning display, into it, actually. And it was spectacular. And then I fell asleep listening to the rain and the thunder. And it’s so rare in Perth now for that kind of weather to last that long that it was just so joyful to listen to it.

And I’ve been working on a bunch of things at Twelfth Planet Press. Some are obvious – the next couple of volumes of the Twelve Planets. I’m loving how Showtime and Through Splintered Walls are shaping up. Showtime has a draft cover but I’ll post that when it’s closer to done. I’m clearing the decks for the novels submission month which kicks off on January 1. And I’m working on a couple of other soon to be announced projects. Today though, I got to announce this upcoming project for 2012:

From Twelfth Planet Press in 2012, comes the next volume in our novella series:

Salvage

by Jason Nahrung

a 40 000 word novella