Tonight, I’m planning to attend the launch of a new book, Falling Into Place by Heather and Ivan Morison, the artists who organised the recent event “How To Prosper In The Coming Bad Years“, at which I was a speaker.

Co-published with Book Works, this publication brings together Heather and Ivan Morison’s recent body of work comprising shelters and escape vehicles through a narrative which is part-science fiction, part-history, part-auto-biography, part-fairytale.

The launch is scheduled to take place this evening from 7.30pm in The Star and Dove Inn, Totterdown. If you’re in the area, why not drop in?

I finished the first draft of another new short story today, the second I’ve produced in the space of a couple of weeks. The first was called “Fault” and it clocked in at 1300 words. This one’s just shy of 5000 words; it’s called “The New Ships”; and it’s a sequel to “Flotsam”, the story I sold to Ian Whates for his Conflicts anthology (due April 2010 from NewCon Press). The action takes place in a near-future England, where much of the South West has been rendered uninhabitable by a nuclear explosion over the Severn Estuary. I’ll polish it up over the next few days, and submit it to market before Christmas, in the hope that it’ll appear in print shortly after the anthology.

Day two of the TTA Press advent calendar features a link to my short story “Hot Rats”.

TTA Advent: Day Two