Journal

Sunday, September 24, 2006

coolnesses

My favourite moments of today were Clive Barker's impromptu Guest of Honour Speech at Fantasycon, in which he declared war on the idea that Fantasy was a genre, and the rather astonishing moment half an hour later when I finally realised that the reason that my name was being read out was because ANANSI BOYS had just won the August Derleth Award as Best Novel. I've never won a British Fantasy Award before, and was chuffed and astonished.

(Edited to add, here's the full list -- http://www.fantasycon.org.uk/blog/?p=21)

Right. Bed now. Reading and Q&A and signing tomorrow.