BSFA Interview
Last Wednesday evening I travelled up to London for an interview with the BSFA.
Sloane Square looked stunning in the darkness with the Christmas lights on, and the Antelope is only a few minutes 
walk away. In fact, I had barely arrived and was about to buy a drink when Tony Keen joined me. Tony organized the event, and he and Dave Mansfield -who interviewed me- made me feel exceptionally welcome. I read a couple of chapters from Damage Time to a small but attentive audience who asked some intriguing questions, and finished up reading the first few pages from ‘Spindizzy,’ my contribution to Dark Spires. Actually, it was interesting to see how different the whole experience felt from ‘that’ side of the table. Afterwards we had a fine Thai meal at a restaurant a short(-ish) walk away.
The evening flew by, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone next year, when it’ll be someone else’s turn in the hot seat. And the BSFA are keen to roll the format out to other areas. If you’re an author looking to be interviewed, or a fan who wants to interview their favourite author, drop by the BSFA contact page and get in touch with them. Sadly, they didn’t have their recording equipment, so my secrets are (almost) safe for a while longer.
And on my return the next day, I found the curiously titled e-mail in my inbox – Is Scramble A Drug?
It was lucky that it didn’t end up in the crushing maw of the spam filter, but it got through, and it turns out it was someone with an ‘edu’ e-mail (edu addresses always impress me, they hint at academia) asking whether the reference to Scramble in Damage Time refers to a drug.
It does, and the name’s sort of self-explanatory in that it jumbles the memory, but I must admit that I thought someone else had used it before so if you’ve heard of it elsewhere, drop me a line.
Enough for now. More tomorrow.
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