Making Book review

I may be misremembering this (which is sort of appropriate since I've just got home from a lecture on false memories!), but I thought Neil Gaiman recommended Making Book by Teresa Neilsen Hayden as an essential guide to the publishing industry, which all budding writers should read for both education and entertainment.

So, I was somewhat surprised to discover that it's actually an eclectic collection of essays on subjects as varied as Mormonism and fruitbats. My favourite was the one about Disneyland Syndrome, but the most interesting was the one detailing her extreme case of narcolepsy.

By turns weird, fascinating, funny and completely incomprehensible, it's a strange book, but I like the strong authorial voice that connects all the essays together, and some of it is very clever.

However, I still want to read the guide to publishing, whatever it actually is!