Whoo-hoo! Well done, Al!

[jacey]

Someone just drew my attention to this!
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/22/alastair-reynolds-million-pound-deal
Great news!

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Way to go Alastair! (He's one of our guests of honour for Odyssey 2010) http://www.odyssey2010.org/

Are you likely to be coming?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping to be there, yes. Should I volunteer to run something? Voice workshops for filkers??? er... maybe not... I can run a folk festival so helping out at a con should be 'more of the same but different'

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

'Well done Al' indeed. It's good to see SF writers getting the kind of advances previously only seen for US Fantasy writers.

(On a more selfish note, I'm trying to work out whether this is good or bad news for yours truly.)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I doubt it will affect the other Golly writers. They obviously know how much Al is worth to them, so I presume they're not shorting the rest of the budget to pay him big bucks, but rather that it will be self-financing.

BTW, PoA arrived this morning, ut I'm making myself finish the current book (Georgette Heyer) before I read it.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Sorry CoH not PoA! I had a timeslip there.
:-)