Finishings

Messy week finished - I'm looking forward to a nice homey weekend and getting back into a writing routine again.
Three MSs for the Year of SF and Fantasy workshop are also finished - all highlighted and circled and underlined and footnoted. Only nine to go.

Book finished - Skinned by Robin Wasserman, a great YA novel about a rich, beautiful, shallow, popular girl who dies and is downloaded into an artificial body. And none of this indistinguishable-from-the-real-thing nonsense - she looks like a counterfeit girl. Lia Kahn, when she was human, was the ultimate, teen queen bitch - a real Heather. As a skinner, she is reviled and rejected. Death, one suspects (though this book is a stand alone, it is the first in a trilogy) will be the making of her. And what better way to explore teenage matters like the importance of being an insider or an outsider, peer pressure, appearances, alienation, sex, life, death etc than by making our antiheroine a big, plastic doll?

This book was a let's-take-a-chance impulse buy - I was attracted by the subject and (oh, the shallowness of it) the cover - but now I'd like to find more by this author.