12 days to go

Woooo-hoooo 12 days to go till YLAF 06. So what distressing and irrelevant news about my personal life can I tell you before I shamelessly plug the fest? Well, about a week ago I got my hair cut. I meant to blog about it then but I got distracted. Here is a photo. See what happened?

My barber ran the cut-throat razor swiftly over my neck about 5 times. During those two seconds I was thinking, Wow that really hurts, gosh. Then I got home and there was the lovely VG Lee waiting on my doorstep in the rain uncomplaining as ever (just wait till her next novel when she will satirise my selfishness and how I would rather go to the barber than be home when my friends come round etc) and she saw the back of my neck and her eyes went wide in horror. So I thought I'd share it with the group. Cos people like horror, don't they?

On the bright side, the programme is out for YLAF. It's inside the latest issue of Dykelife and the best bits are posted on our website at www.ylaf.org.uk as PDFs about the book festival or just plain useful text about the cabaret.

I've just been chatting with Salena 'Saliva' Godden about her act at the cabaret. She's going to do her funny poems about wee-holes and the like. I've seen her doing that stuff at the SpitLit fest and it's fab. She's fab. As are all the acts on that night in fact.

So I hope you will be joining us!
H x