Just happily waiting on contracts – they MAY take a while as Christmas mail-clog is likely to start any minute – but when they arrive I’ll be signing for the sale of my SF/Disaster book, COALS & ASH, set in Australia. It’s sold to Altair Books in Oz, too, and as I’ve worked with the editor – Robert Stephenson – a number of times with short stories sold to his anthologies I already know he’s an excellent editor. If all goes well, the book should be out around mid-1918 and I look forward to it, the sf/disaster books are some of my favourites after decades of reading Day of the Triffids, Alas Babylon, Cold Sea Rising, and a whole shelf of other ‘post-holocaust’ books I have and regularly re-read.