[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-tall-story-by-candy-gourlay":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last week I threw propriety to the wind and \u003Ci>begged\u003C/i> a Random House publicist named Corinne to get me a copy of \u003Cb>Candy Gourlay\u003C/b>'s as-yet unpublished novel, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Tall Story\u003C/b>\u003C/i>. Candy is such a funny, witty, up-for-anything friend that I suspected the book was going to be good, but I was thrilled to find out it was MORE than good, I was absolutely riveted from the second I sat down with it. And read it. And read it again. And then read it a third time. So here's my little bit of fan art.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tallstory_illo-38683aa675.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can read more about it over \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com/tall-story/\">on Candy's website\u003C/a>, and also find lots of great tips about writing and the world of publishing on her blog, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.notesfromtheslushpile.co.uk/\">Notes from the Slushpile\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tallstorycover-631dadceb6.jpg\" width=\"380\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tallstory_sarah-5df51281d7.jpg\" width=\"250\">\\r\n\u003Ci>The one I'm holding isn't the real cover, the painted one's how it's going to look, at least in Britain.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI love the dynamics of having someone very, very tall in the story. I once went to Hawaii with a group of 20 Taiwanese architects and their families, and being the only non-Taiwanese person and six feet tall, I can tell you, I \u003Ci>felt\u003C/i> like a giant. At a recent book launch I went to, there was this other woman there named Hayley Campbell, who also has a good view of the top of people's heads, and we totally eyed each other up from across the room, then had a chat and compared notes on being tall, as you do. We both feel a mixture of solidarity and a bit of competitiveness, when we suddenly find ourselves standing up \u003Ci>much\u003C/i> straighter next to each other. But our tallness is nothing compared to this Filipino kid in Candy's book. You totally have to read it when it comes out in here in \u003Cb>June\u003C/b>. It doesn't come out until next year in the States, but if you're clever, you'll order it from here online and get to make your way through all those funny British spellings. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0385618948?ie=UTF8&tag=mumatworkbyca-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0385618948\">(You can pre-order it here.)\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nOh, and one other thing, our \u003Ca href=\"http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1O4bc739d90a6f8012.cde/page/9\">DFC team photo\u003C/a> got into \u003Ci>The Bookseller\u003C/i>, whee! \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/286514.html\">(Original \u003Ci>Mezolith\u003C/i> party blog post here.)\u003C/a>","2010-04-16T18:21:00.000Z","tall-story-by-candy-gourlay",[],"tall story by candy gourlay",1776628717960]