IN WHICH MR SMITH TAKES PART IN A LAZY SATURDAY AFTERNOON
…and things move along nicely. Mark and I (look at that - proper English!) have a meeting on Monday in London. Finally, The Ballad of the Goat Faced Boy moves along like it has an engine instead of some solid walking shoes. With a launch date, proofs in progress and both of us hitting on it at every available opportunity, we're both really excited about the way things are going. I rather suspect Mark will be bringing along his ideas for his steampunk project too. I'm looking forward to that - I've never written anything that wasn't born from my own head. It might actually make a refreshing change to deal with some people who will behave.
My big box of tricks finally arrived from amazon this week as well. That super-saver delivery is all well and good but it doesn't half take a long time when you're in a hurry. While I was waiting, I caught up with Billingham's Tom Thorne in Bloodline. a nice piece of work it is too for a London based crime drama. Anyway, I'm halfway through the Martin Beck series - if anybody has any recommendations for kick-ass crime I can plough my way through in a month or so, let me know. It's probably worth noting here that I've pretty much done all of the obvious hence why I moved on to Scandinavian authors.
So, without my books, I've been "reduced" to watching the remainder of season two of Life (which was much better than I expected it to be), caught up with The Killing (deserving of every single award it ever won) and dived in and out of a Wire in the Blood box-set that I found knocking around. Maybe I should have just got some sleep - but sleep is for girls. Right?
Talking of which, the girls came back from holiday this week, so this weekend I've got the pair of them. As I sit here typing this, we've decided to have the best Saturday ever by eating our favourite sandwiches and crisps along with a Frijj milkshake while we watch all five episodes of Torchwood: Children of Earth - back to back. I know, I can be such a TV whore sometimes, but it's raining hard, they're tired and I have things to do, so I think it's acceptable. We'll get back on the horse tomorrow and kick off with a visit to the pool, but for now, Captain Jack is just what the Doctor ordered.
A few weeks back, somebody forwarded a link to me about a new web project. It's a really cool idea and if you're into this sort of thing, you should probably go and sign up and get your own name before somebody else pinches it. It's here: https://about.me/ and it's just about the coolest social networking hub I've seen - even though it's still in beta. Everybody on there already has made a real effort with their pictures and it's really locked down tight so you can't really mess it up. Mine is here: http://about.me/sionsmith and what you see is what you get. Cool pic, brief biog and a bunch of icon-driven links to all my other places. Long term, I can see it working really well. If you've got something to say and a good presence on the web, give it a go, otherwise you might find it's all bit pointless and you might as well stick with whatever network of choice you're currently with.
