Just too damn much happened today for me to avoid blogging about it, despite the all-time record post-convention crud/comedown combination.  (Ironically, I think I got the cold off Caroline.)  The SFX Weekender was an incredible blast, just one of the best events ever, and I'll be blogging it on Friday.  Right now, I miss it so much, and I wish I was still there, and life is bleak and pitiless.  (Until tomorrow night, when I'll be seeing some of the usual suspects again at a book launch.)

First and foremost, I've just been interviewed by USA Today!  And they were also kind enough to preview the first six pages of Saucer Country #1 by me and Ryan Kelly, out next month.  You can see that right here. Isn't that artwork amazing?

Or next time you're in your comic shop, you could pick up the free Vertigo Preview 2012...


Which includes, alongside Vertigo's other forthcoming delights, another Saucer Country preview.

While you're in that comic shop, out today is Demon Knights #6, of which you can see five lovely preview pages here.

And the latest issue of SFX Magazine...


Includes another interview with me, also about Saucer Country.  Which is getting some of the most favourable advance reactions I've ever experienced.  Thanks very much, everyone.

Meanwhile, also to my great delight, the latest edition (#224) of SF podcast Starship Sofa, which always features several short stories, includes an excellent reading of 'One of our Bastards is Missing', the story in my Jonathan Hamilton series immediately before 'The Copenhagen Interpretation'.

And speaking of that story, since it's on Locus magazine's Recommended Reading List, it also features in that magazine's poll and survey, where anyone can vote, but the votes of subscribers to the magazine count double. (Upon reflection, I actually rather like that system.)

And now I'm going to stagger back to my sickbed.  By which I of course mean Skyrim.  See you on Friday for that convention report (with complete Just A Minute videos).  Until then, Cheerio!