This train will be jumping off the tracks if it goes any faster. Too Hot For Dogs Issue One (or should I call it Issue Zero?) is complete! Has gone to Charlotte to make any last minute art changes that she wishes and then it will be rather ceremoniously dumped in the lap of the gods. The PR and marketing end of the stick I don't even want to look at too closely because it means I will have to walk away from the creative process for a while and tend to what is - in simple terms - glorified admin. I guess when you pick up a stick, you pick up both ends.
Let's empty the head - and then I must tend to humanoid functions before a big bad wolf comes and blows my house down.
If any of you are looking for albums worthy of shelling out on, I have an advance copy here of the debut from Attack! Attack! which is a contender for a place in the top five of the year with ease. To say I have also rediscovered Slaves to Gravity when Scatter the Crow didn't come out that long ago would be foolish... maybe it would be better to say that I have rekindled my affair with it. Yes, that works for me. On the book front, I've just finished some serial killer/CSI type affair called The Secret Friend... was OK. It's a plane/train book but that's all. I might not read anything at all for the rest of the week and just take stock of everything that's on, under and spread across the table. Takes it toll on the eyes does all this reading and writing.
For those of you wondering where the short stories are, they're still out there doing their thing. Apparently, it takes a long time for the editors of small presses to decide what they are going to use - so for once, it's not my fault! They are finished and they have been pitched.
All quiet on the literary agent front too. This is because I have stopped looking. I think it's more pertinent to lay down the work. I'll take stock of the output in the Christmas period and re-evaluate. It's a plan at least.
Finally - I think I'm right in saying it's the last day of voting at the Orange Music thing that 50ft Woman has gotten herself involved in. Take some time out, click a few buttons. Go ahead - make her day.
Is that it for today? Possibly... possibly...
