A friend from college suggested I submit a paper on Tubewhore to the Literary London conference in July.  It's been ten years since I presented to an academic audience, and felt the creaking weight of those years as I tried to remember how to write an abstract in 300 words without sounding like a total prig...But I can't have done too badly, thanks to some hand-holding from roseyphoenixand midnightxpress telling me I can actually be smart and funny and I've got peering witheringly over my glasses like all good academics absolutely down, as in mid-April I had a very excitable unofficial response from the organiser. 


Anyway, the good news is that I had an official email this morning to say the paper has been accepted.  The bad news is that it's going to cost about £200 (conference fees, accomodation, fancy dinner, train fare).  I still feel it's worth doing, although honestly, as much for my ego as any other reason...so I have booked holiday time and now have the perfect reason to knock out the top end of the Metropolitan line.  Anyone got any fabulous ideas for things to do in London in July?