... becoming the new Nebula Awards Commissioner!

So I've been a member of the SFWA since January last year, and in October, having offered to become more involved, received a communication from the (then) Executive Director, Kate Baker (who was really supportive and fantasic), asking if I wanted to assist with the Nebulas. 

Of course, I said yes!

 After quite a bit of reading and jumping through administrative hoops, I was unleashed on the Nebula Reading List; ensuring accuracy of information and eligibility of suggested titles and games. Busy work when you're not being paid for it... but thoroughly enjoyable!

Then, this January, I was offered the Commissioner role! AWESOME!! Just in time for the awards season - not swamped and distracted from my own writing career at all :) 

But having the opportunity to oversee the nominations and subsequent voting process from the 'inside' is insane. Thank you SFWA... I think :)

Anyway, 28th February is when the nomination window closes. So hurry up SFWA members, get your ballots in!

‘Ghost in the Machine’ is ready for publishing

It's finally done! Ghost in the Machine has been through its final read and edit, and I'm now in the process of publishing on Amazon and Ingram Sparks . It's definately fair to say that navigating the do's and dont's of self-publishing are utterly baffling (I'll go into the whys and wherefores of choosing those two organisations as my launch point in a later update) .... But, as someone that's not famous (yet 😏), being in charge of my own book and royalties (rather than trying to attract an agent with a tiny slither of my work and then being rewarded with a pittance after the publisher has claimed their thirty pieces of silver) seemed an attractive proposition - I'll let you all know if I was right in a few months!

For now … chuffed face!