So much for promises. Apologies. I would love to blog everyday but this weekend just ran away with me.
The good news is that I've got stacks done, lined up twice as much as that in the pipeline, finished revamping the Zodiac site (for now), re-worked Eleanor's site a little and after seeing the new covers for the re-releases of Clive Barker's classics, decided to start a new book design business in the shape of Bad Hare - look but don't touch. Not yet - there's still stuff to do there this week, don't know why I didn't think of it before though.
In a moment of madness, I have decided to enter a small competition next year. I'm going to do an Ironman Challenge. If you're grimacing right now, that's what I'm still doing. It amounts to a 2.4 mile (3.86 km) swim, a 112 mile (180.25 km) bike ride and a marathon (26 miles 385 yards/ 42.195 km) run, raced in that order and without a break.
I'm reliably informed that: Ironman events have a strict time limit of 17 hours to complete the race. The Ironman race starts at 7am. The mandatory swim cut off for the 2.4 mile swim is 2 hours 20 minutes. The bike cut off time is 5.30pm. All finishers must complete their marathon by midnight.
I think I can get myself kicked up the arse enough in 12 months to do this. I'm not too worried about the swimming and the bike, it's the marathon that's freaking me out. Anyway, I'm on the lookout for a worthy charity to raise some money for. Maybe I'll split the pot over a few of them. Not sure yet, but I'm not doing it for less than £100,000... and yeah, I hear ya knocking Mr Johnson!
Facebook pages and other means of indie PR and money raising tactics to be launched shortly - giving me time to think about whether I'm cut out for it or maybe just one of the events would be a better place to start... my intentions are good.
In the meantime, get ready for the launch of 31 very short chapters of I,Wolfboy as I attempt to publish a whole novella via twitter every single day in May. You can start to follow now if you want @iwolfboy on twitter but nothing will happen before 1st May and nothing will happen after the 31st. The challenge is not to actually to complete it, (though that's hard enough as not a single character will be wasted), the challenge is to make it bloody interesting.
See what happens when I'm left by myself for more than a few minutes...
