That's a sentence that in 1997 I never would have guessed I would write.
But the National Post Books Section and the Afterword blog make everything better. (What on earth did I use to read to get me through the day? There must have been something...? Bookninja, probably.)
Since the wonderful "Most Anticipated Books of (the first half of) 2013," there have been a few more articles and tidbits about Bone and Bread in the National Post:
There is this very nice article about me and Bone and Bread by Mark Medley. (I'm finding I get nervous or shy about these kinds of articles and tend to skim them very quickly, but looking over this now to share the link, I see that my editor said some extremely blush-inducing and hard-work-inspiring things about me in it.)
Photo from the National Post
Photographer Tyler Anderson took this photo in the building where House of Anansi has their offices, at the end of the hallway in the freight elevator. He makes the backdrop look unexpectedly gorgeous!
There is also a little piece I wrote for their feature called the "Story behind the Story," where I talk a little bit about the genesis of a particular excerpt from the novel.
And last, but certainly not least, a review of Bone and Bread by Emily M. Keeler.
On the flipside of all this happy internet stuff, I've been having some generalized internet woes lately. It was announced a few weeks ago that Google Reader is being discontinued, only a zillion years after I finally got it organized exactly the way I want it. It's fine, really, because Reader created its own problems for me....I'd read blog posts on my phone and star/flag them to go comment later, but never did. What I miss is the sidebar I used to have on my old Blogger design that showed when my favourite sites had a new update -- the most recently updated blog moving to the top of the list. I wish there was a way to replicate this functionality in the "Pages" function I'm using now. (I've tried pasting the code, but to no avail.)
What is your favourite way to stay up-to-date with your favourite sites? I'm thinking of going back to good old-fashioned bookmarking that I check up on every other day.
The Facebook app on my phone has also stopped working properly -- it loads everything except for pictures, which makes for some very odd, contextless status updates.
