It's always exciting when the proofs of a book arrive. It's also a strange experience: here is a cover, font, layout and content that you know inside out. You dug it out of your imagination, worried the sentences until the rhythm felt right, solved plot problems and imagined characters sufficiently to illustrate them, and enfold the whole thing inside sympathetic cover. But when you sign for it at the front door, open the package, and hold the object in your hand, you realise it has left you (in a good way) and is ready to live in the world on its own. It has an appealing unfamiliarity.
And I have to say it's a modest, little book, but perfectly formed. So - not long now.
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