Daynote - Tue 14 Oct

Last morning of dogminding this morning and a brief gallop around Leith Links, the large and beautiful stretch of park just to the east of Leith's core. I had to get back fairly quick this morning though, in order to post about SOLITARY AGENTS being in the Waterstones 25% off October sale! Grab a bargain!

ON DECK: Some edits came back from my publisher last night, so I'm working on those. We're down to the last few tweaks and changes and consistency type stuff, so it's careful, slow work. But I've got to get it done and dusted in the next couple of days. I'll see this book at least twice more (proofreader version and then the final version before it goes to print), but it's definitely taking on the form of a finished book. Which is always very pleasing.

TOOLS AND PROCESS: Still fiddling about with Griply, still avoiding committing to it because of the sheer boring grind of having to rebuild all my lists and projects in a new tool. Inertia is a hell of a thing.

LISTENING: I greatly enjoyed this episode of Always Take Notes with the novelist Sarah Perry (THE ESSEX SERPENT, ENLIGHTENMENT). Absolutely fascinating and quite the journey to publication.

WATCHING: Didn't watch anything last night, too busy reading.

READING: Still reading THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWN OBJECTS and greatly enjoying it. Not long now until I chat to Gareth about it.

LINK: Relevant to my current faffing with my (endless) todo list is this excellent post by Curtis McHale on productivity as a fetish. There's a lot I recognise in this post.

UP NEXT: Off home shortly once River's humans return, then a couple of days in the usual routine (phew), then my event with Gareth on Thursday. Oh and a podcast recording tonight. October has been a pretty busy month, so far, for being a month I hadn't planned to do much in.

Onwards!