16th January, 2021.
Did you ever meet a writer called Storm Constantine?
Or read anything by her?
I did the latter, many years ago: The Monstrous Regiment, and her Grigori trilogy.
And really should get to grips with her Wraeththu novels: which kickstarted her career.
I met her a couple of times, as well: back in the late Nineties.
You couldn’t wish to met a warmer woman: nor one with a more bewitching smile, or wickeder sense of humour.
I actually interviewed her, and kept meaning to post the results here.
I never did: for various reasons.
And possibly now never will: in a chat on Facebook, many years later, she told me she wanted to see and approve the finished results, before I published.
Understandably, I think: utter professional that she was, she didn’t want a complete amateur making a pigs ear of things!
Sadly? I’ll not get that approval.
As Storm died of cancer on Thursday, 14th January, 2021.
She’ll be much missed: by her friends, her family … and her husband, Jim.
All I can do? Is send him my condolences.
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