Daynote - Tue 10 Feb

Whoops, an accidental lie-in this morning. The stealth alarm silencer strikes again. But I guess I needed the sleep. Since January (yes, I know, cliche) I've been doing Couch to 5k. This is the third or fourth time I've done it and it's going pretty well, but wow I am very tired and sleep like a dead thing as a result. And sometimes, apparently, I unconsciously silence my alarm.

ON DECK: A slow-moving 1,058 words this morning. When I wake late I tend to move very slowly through the morning. No real reason why except I feel a wee bit groggy, I suppose. But I got there in the end.

LISTENING: I really enjoyed this preview episode of In My Good Books talking about the Helensburgh Book Festival. It sounds like an amazing event! And a podcast episode with some well-selected clips of the speakers is a really good way to introduce a festival programme; other events take note.

WATCHING: A bit more of KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS and WONDLA last night, both of which had excellent twists. I haven't read the story that the former is based on, so the reveal in this episode got me cold. Good stuff.

Also, I'm getting pretty psyched for a genuine Steven Spielberg summer blockbuster:

READING: More of RAT RACE by Callum McSorley (Bookshop, Amazon) - it's just terrific stuff.

LINK: A good thread from author Kate Heartfield on how to weed out LLM-generated book club scams, which are getting steadily more sophisticated.

UP NEXT: Packing tonight, then off to London tomorrow for a day of exciting stuff on Thursday. Then back to Scotland to teach on Friday. And I'm also hoping to swing by Waterstones in Edinburgh on Friday afternoon to get my copy of PAGANS signed by James Alistair Henry, who is doing a lightning tour after being selected as their Book of the Month.

Busy! Onward!