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Okay, I can now officially say what I've been keeping under my hat for a few weeks:

I'm going to be a Clarke Award judge next year (for the BSFA).

I am both delighted and terrified about this! It's, what, five or six years since I stopped being the BSFA awards administrator? I honestly thought that if I was going to be asked to be a judge it would have been around then, so had almost given up. So I dead chuffed to finally be asked.

On the other hand I know enough ex-judges to realise that it will be a lot of hard work, but I am sure it will be fun as well!

I will probably have to drop back on some of my other commitments, particularly reviewing - both because of time and potential conflicts of interest (I potentially have another, similar, committment - more details once again when all has been confirmed - but which will involve a smaller amount of reading and shouldn't overlap too much in either subject or time).

So in another month or so my reading decisions are not going to be my own so I've got a small pile of books by the side of my bed that I particularly want to read soon!