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What a difference a year makes

Calendar pagesIt’s hard to believe a year (and a bit) has passed since I saw finished copies of Songs of the Earth – where has the time gone?

Well, if you really want to know, it’s gone here:

– over 300,000 words of fiction

– over 2500 tweets

– 1538 miles travelled

– over 400 bookmarks given away

– 387 books signed

– 28 fanmails received and responded to personally

– 23 blog posts (I know, I know, I need to blog more regularly)

– several many new friends made (you know who you are)

– 1 convention attended

– 0 nervous breakdowns, divorces or psychotic episodes (but it was a close run thing)

Whew.

 

Far-flung Songs

Gonzalo Morán with Bajo la Hiedra

I tweeted recently that I’d had a request for an interview from a fantasy fan in Cuba. Here he is – Gonzalo very kindly sent me a picture of himself and his much-prized copy of Bajo la Hiedra. Note the finger carefully marking his place . . .

Fantasy books are pretty difficult to obtain in Cuba; due to their currency not being internationally traded Cuban readers can’t just pop onto Amazon or The Book Depository whenever they fancy something new to read. After hearing about my book on the Internet, Gonzalo only managed to get hold of a copy by asking a friend to bring it with her when she came to visit.

If you speak Spanish, Gonzalo runs a fantasy blog and was impressed enough with my last rant to go to the trouble of translating it for his readers. I don’t know what on earth came over him.

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