Thursday, September 26th was an exciting day for me. Not only was I giving a library talk for the good folk of Abingdon about my latest book, A Novel Solution but, in a happy coincidence, it was the day my short story, We’ve Got Chemistry, was published in the latest Breakthrough Books anthology, Elemental.
There was a good turn-out for the library talk, perhaps due to a pause in the incessant rain, and the offer of a glass of wine to help things along. The audience was lively, listening and laughing in all the right places and, at the end, asking intriguing questions that got discussions going, and buying books. I really enjoyed myself, and hope they did too.
Big thanks to to Jessica and Sarah at Abingdon Library for inviting me and for making the evening run so smoothly.
I’ll post some pictures of the event at the end of this.
As I said, the anthology, Elemental, the third in the series by Breakthrough Books was published on Thursday this week. It features a collection of short stories by different authors, each giving their own take on the theme. Imaginative, ecclectic or amusing, there’s something for everyone here. My short story, We’ve Got Chemistry, imagines what it would be like to be a teenager going on a date with a young wizard. It conjures up a literary cauldron that mixes alchemy with particle physics in, I hope, an amusing fashion.
Elemental and A Novel Solution are both available from good bookshops and the usual places.
