Launched

So. The Broken World is launched. We had some very nice drinks to celebrate.
Mike Harrison (M. John) blogged about it – I only recently noticed that Mike started blogging again, at a new address. So Uncle Zip’s Window is gone, but Ambiente Hotel is just as good a place to be.

Reviews of The Broken World are slowly starting to appear – I will update as and when more come in. The best of the bunch so far is from Stuart Kelly writing in Scotland on Sunday:

“..an exhilarating and poignant tale of love, loss and computer games that ought to make the leap from “cult classic” to”popular success”… The Broken World is ultimately a humane and heartfelt book, with a proper emotional core wrapped up in a giddyingfantasia. It manages to be desperately sad and desperately funny at the same time. It is a book of big ideas, cunningly delivered through a slacker’s shrug.”

So-so from the TLS, but it’s not online. And an interesting, positive one from Matt Thorn writing in the July edition of the Literary Review, also not online.

Great blog responses so far from Big Dumb Object and Marcus Gipps.

I’ve also been doing some online interviews etc. Here you can see the one from Metro, and the one for Big Dumb Object. More of these to come… will post links.. and try not repeat myself too much