Lari’s Writing blog

I’ve just opened my new Floris Books catalogue, and the page promoting Storm Singing looks lovely, but it also has a little circle beside the details of my very first book saying “Now available as an eBook”.  I shouldn’t be surprised, because it’s the sort of thing my agent does tell me about, but it did make me step back a bit.  Because I suddenly realised that my books, my characters, are now more technologically advanced than I am.  I’ve never read an e-book.  When I leave the house I still stuff my rucksack full of secondhand collections of Scottish myths and dog-eared novels.  I’m sure the extra weight keeps me fit.  So now I’m trying to imagine Yann the centaur and Sapphire the dragon not on pages of paper but on gently glowing screens.  Are they happy there?  Do they feel a bit out of place?  Or are they, like me, mainly interested in what happens next, not in the details of how and where the story is read?  Anyway – if anyone does get First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts on eBook, and wants to let me know what it’s like reading about Greek mythological monsters and Neolithic stone circles on 21^st century technology, then do get in touch!