That’s all it will take. Honest. That is assuming you can type and click with a reasonable speed.
Over at WeBook - where I have the first page of Turn The Lamp Down Low up for grabs (around 280 words) - I’m four ratings away from getting the damn thing in front of an agent. I’ve worked out the ratings algorithm (twice) and have figured out that I’ll go through to the next round easily, but I need just four more people to rate the damn thing, preferably favourably!
If you have these ten minutes to spare, whip on across to www.webook.com and join up. After you’ve done your thing, you don’t need to do anything else and you can opt out of receiving anything else from them. Shoot, you can even opt in to receive an email from them telling you when I get through to the next round if you so wish.
The only fly in the ointment is that they will show you lots of book intros - some good, some bloody awful. You can’t choose what you look at apart from the genre. If you choose Action/Crime - Turn The Lamp Down Low will turn up sooner or later.
I guess I shouldn’t ask really, but I’m getting really bored of waiting. Things to do, people to see... blah, blah. Patience is not my best quality.
Having said that, there’s some interesting stuff on there. You might find something/someone you want to follow. I’m currently badgering them to make it more of an open source thing - or at least make it so that authors can feed their blog in there. It’s all a bit faceless at the moment.
Last week - Wednesday maybe - there was a documentary on TV called Country House Rescue and the first one under the microscope was Plas Teg. This is what’s known as “the whole point” - or at least a large part of it.
I might post some extracts from Almost Human about it tomorrow but I used to go to this house weekly when it was a wreck - trees growing through the floor, badgers living on stairs... I fell in love with it as a kid and never fell out of love. Ever.
I made a promise to myself that one day - when things were ‘better’ (ie: the bank account was a different colour) I would buy it and take good care of it. Well, that’s never gonna happen in a million years but who knows. A couple of books under the belt and a movie script later.. that’s what dreaming is about. Setting the bar so unfeasibly high that you know you’ve made it when you can actually afford your dream. In cash.
Anyway, check it out here. She’s beautiful and begging for a proper horror movie to be made in her.
Lastly, the initial Doctor Who trailers (one and two) have hit the ground. Nice. There's also a series preview here. Despite holding reservations about the new Face, the series itself has got a good buzz about it. It looks as though it will be totally different in its delivery... up to and including having to buy a new sofa big enough for both kids and adults to hide behind.
Bring it. Now.
Currently watching: Hung (Try it - it’s brilliant.)
Currently listening to: Dirty Americans: Strange Generation
