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eneit has an interesting post on where we find out about the books we want to read. She's asked for opinions. I'd love to see where other people find their reading, so please take a look and tell her what you think.

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Speaking about reviews, I was given a really interesting one by Alan Baxter. I now have a little trail of happy reviews. No doubt review websites will be tougher, if they review it all, but it doesn't matter: readers love my book and they're the bottom line, always. I care very deeply about fiction being accessible.

Why am I so pleased? Alan understood exactly what I was doing, and he said I did it well.

This is like the moment I read the conference paper Kershaw presented on Illuminations last year. It's not praise or attention that make me happy (though I admit I like them), it's the fact that people are reading and enjoying the precise things I want them to. My writing works.

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I've overused the word 'interesting' today, but I finished the editing I needed to finish and I'm powering my way through the books I need to complete (including the one with the too-creative cover) so I don't care. Well, not much, anyhow.

I do care a little. I care enough not to call dinner 'interesting.' I need to call it something. It's cooking away while I type, and it's very much creative leftovers. The rice is generously laced with fresh ginger and coconut milk and will be pandan-green and scented with lotus root. I'm going to stir-fry some chopped fresh vegies in a moment and sprinkle them with chilli and much lemon, or maybe lemon and much chilli. And that will be dinner. Green rice and vegetables!

One day my pantry will be dull, but today is not that day.