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/1111/2002 Archived Entry: "New journal to read"

Chaz Brenchley has a new journal up at his website. Anything of Chaz'z is worth reading, so I highly recommend it. Reading his 'non-fiction' (mainly the journal and the columns he writes for some magazine or other and which are re-produced on the website, somewhere) always brings a silly smile to my face, because Chaz writes this stuff in the exact same way he speaks and I can hear it in my head in his voice.
Speaking of which, I've just finished 'Time Again' by Chaz writing as Carol Trent. It's a truly bizarre novel. Crap plotline (it's a real Mills and Boon style romance) with vague shades of mystery that suddenly turns a hard left into real horror and bloodletting and has a serious downer of an ending! It's very, very early Chaz (and thank you Jean for letting me borrow it) but you can see a lot of the style that came through in the work he wrote subsequently. And he mentions the Chalet School novels.
Actually, Chaz is mentioned in Neil Gaiman's journal today. And it's in the context of an email from Jean which is even better. Seven degrees of Neil Gaiman gets even closer. I'll meet him one day. At which point, I'll melt into a puddle of goo and total fanboyishness. But, hey, who cares?