Well, it’s been a busy few days. First there was the launch party for A Virtual Love, which you can see pictures of here if you missed them before. Then the following things happened, in no particular order:

• Got a wonderful review over on Tales from the Reading Room – “As a portrait of modern love it is quite unsettling, pointing to ever-growing questions about what remains most real and significant in our transient, illusory world”
• Katy Guest, the literary editor of The Independent on Sunday, wrote a column about the ideas in my book
• I was a featured author on the LibraryThing home page
• Got a mention on Bloggers Recommend
• Great review at We Love This Book: “Andrew Blackman’s second novel is a fine study of identity and deception at the point where the online and offline worlds intersect”
• Brian at Babbling Books called the book “a thoughtful, artistic, entertaining and ultimately sad meditation upon the state of the world in the digital age”
• The novel was featured in the April edition of Booktime Magazine
• Well-known Caribbean writer Geoffrey Philp said “Andrew Blackman has written a remarkable novel, A Virtual Love, which explores the differences between actual and virtual personas (masks) in a digital age … A novel for anyone who loves to be seduced by characters whose desires are in conflict with a reality for which there is no Undo button.”
• I was a guest on The Next Best Book Club‘s Audio Series, reading an extract of the novel, which you can listen to here
• Manchester book blogger The Workshy Fop wrote an excellent review, bringing out the political dimensions of the book
• Did a reading at Hornsey Library in north London, and got a few more events arranged for the rest of the month

I know that writers promoting their books are not always the most interesting people in the world, so fear not – I have also been reading some good books, and will share some reviews with you soon, as well as thoughts on things not related to A Virtual Love. But I know some people who follow me from afar  want to hear how things have been going.