Waterstones windowshopping

Ventured forth from the office at lunchtime just to have a quick wander around the neighbourhood, and decided that I would go to Waterstones, which is all of three minutes' walk from the office. Wherein I was most amused to discover that

a) it has a romance section tucked away behind the stairs in the general fiction section, even though they don't admit to its existence on the directory board

b) said romance section contained desperance's "Bridge of Dreams" and "River of the World", one being face-out. I didn't have time to go upstairs and check whether there were copies in the sf&f section, which is where I would have *expected* to find them.

Adding to my unseemly joy, the other side of this nook was occupied by the erotica section, which happened to contain one of my rare dead tree credits, and thus I had the experience of seeing a book with my name in the ToC on the shelves in a high street bookstore. I think it's the first time for me in a high street bookstore, even though I've seen my anthology credits in specialist shops.

line edits

Line edits on L&M2 arrived this evening, and my comments went back out again shortly thereafter. There weren't terribly many of them. :-) Now the prufreeders have their crack at it, and after that it should be pretty much done. Which means that I should a) start preparing the book's page on my website for when the book is released, b) select some excerpts for same, and get editor to approve them for release, c) try to remember who I solicited reviews of the first book from so I can ask them if they'd like a copy of the second book when I get the finals.