The portfolio section is finally updated, and two pieces have gone up to make up for nothing being updated in October. The pieces are an extract from Bringing home the stars and The long summer of war. Both full-length versions will be appearing in the forthcoming anthology Bringing home the stars and other stories.

The economic downturn is really starting to pinch. I have found that this quarter’s book figures are disappointing to say the least. Still, can I really expect people to be spending as much money as they did on books when the economy has been trashed so thoroughly by greed, mismanagement and incompitance?