I’m absolutely delighted to invite you to the official launch party for The Agency: A Spy in the House!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
7.30 pm
61 Yonge St
Portsmouth Village
Kingston, Ontario
.
hosted by
Novel Idea Bookstore
and me!
Please RSVP if you can. For a map to the venue, click here.
Well, hello! I’m planning a fun new giveaway for next week that will involve Questions and Prizes. I’m also writing like fury (The Agency 3: The Traitor and the Tunnel), which means that this week instead of a thoughtful, long-cogitated, carefully written short essay in response to an FAQ, I’m bringing you a list of some of my favourite sites. Yes, this is a cheat – and a frivolous one, at that.
This is how I fritter away time on the internet at the moment:
India Knight’s Posterous: lovely, lovely things, curated for you by the Sunday Times journalist.
Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century: um, self-explanatory. But curiously addictive.
The Catastrophizer: my friend Sarah Sweet, on a soapbox.
Making it Lovely: again, self-explanatory. It helps if you like pink, brown, and hand-crafted things.
The Beat that My Heart Skipped: terrific name, and new to me. We shall see how we get on.
You’ll notice a preponderance of design stuff, and nothing at all book-related. I’ll compile a list of great writing and publishing blogs another day. In the meantime, I hope I’ve persuaded you to part happily with another precious quarter-hour you’ll never get back. Hah!
I used to be one of those coffee shop people, hunched over a black coffee and rattling away at the keyboard. But no longer! For I now have a study, and it’s a delicious shade of blue (Benjamin Moore’s Yarmouth Blue, if you care), and all I have to do now is try to keep it as zen as it appears here.
Hah.
In other news, I have BOOKPLATES! These are basically large & fancy stickers with a blank space for personalization. If you’d like me to sign or inscribe your copy of The Agency but don’t think you’ll see me in person for a while, feel free to request one. You need to tell me exactly what you want the bookplate to say: just my signature? “For Pinkie, a goddess amongst mortals”? “To the winning eBay bidder”? As you can see from the foregoing examples, I’m rubbish at clever dedications, so it’s up to you. The design looks like this:
I’m a sucker for old botanical drawings. And weeds. So this was pretty much a foregone conclusion. I hope you like it, too!
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