I’ve moved on to the next thing now – everything happens fast on SL. I’m editing a new magazine called SLiterary General for high quality fiction and poetry, plus listings of writing venues and a page on Books Out Now by SL Authors. I’ll expect a notecard from Paul and Graham about their book so I can include it.

At the magazine headquarters we’ll also be having author appearances on the rooftop stage and my colleage, the extremely talented Ina Centaur, will be able to make the avatars look just like the authors. One of Margaret Atwood in her bath perhaps….

We also have a little film studio and SL lets us show films in .mov format plus we can listen to podcasts to bring authors’ voices to an event. A pre recorded reading can be done in this way followed by live streaming for questions and answers and a discussion.

It’s all very exciting and also great fun. In SLiterary General I’ll be including poetry from French and Italian poets as I can provide a translation alongside and will try to include other languages in future as SL is a multilingual community. The amazing thing about SL is that a magazine like this reaches a circulation of thousands quite quickly and can attract sponsorship and advertising with a little time.

As for baths – I love them. I get all my best writing ideas in there. If any of you want to visit me in SL just look for Jilly Kidd and find SLiterary on my profile – it will drop you in my office for a chat. In RL I’m a published poet working on a novel and I edit fiction for Bluechrome Publishing in the UK – my name is Adele Ward.

And yes, I’m trying to encourage the introduction into the lexicon of the phrase “get out of the bath!” as a synonym for “don’t be such a luddite!” Don’t most people take showers these days anyway?