It's a gloriously chilly October morning and another week has gone by in which time has obliterated regular blog opportunities. To begin with superficial items or items of great importance? The choice is all mine - or I could just lump it all in together.
Mere seconds ago I ordered Russel T Davies' Doctor Who book - A Writer's Tale. Apparently for fans of Doctor Who and those interested in the writing process, this is a bit of a no brainer for me and I'm wondering why it took so long for me to get around to it. This week have also been chewing away at a book I thought would be, shall we say, shit. However, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is rather excellent. Great back story and impeccably delivered, it's restored a little faith from me in a man I long ago thought had lost it. Nice. This week I also picked up a book called A Good & Happy Child which looks like it might be one of those things that I tell people about in hushed voices...
On the music front, I have thoroughly tried to avoid the Metallica album until the hype/backlash has died down. Instead, I buried myself in the Pussycat Dolls album. It's OK y'know... a bit vapid but there's a place for vapid in every life if you look hard enough. Also on the music front, I have some big n juicy news to announce soon that I'm really fired up about but it would be foolish to name it just yet... this is followed by potentially even bigger excellent news and a trip to a lil' exhibition thing called the Rock Archive. Maybe not so little huh.
On the non music front, but something that still involves going outside is the second appearance of the LuchaFest at the RoundHouse. Much excited about this one.
So - this writing thing. Charlotte has give me at least half of the illustrations for issue two so I need to get my head around that pretty fast as that now leaves just four pages to finish up before we move on to issue three. This weekend was the BICS event which I really was going to go up to and launch the first issue, but Charlie picked up a copy that was a little less than perfect from LuLu, so that needs fixing behind the scenes before we go any further. Actually, it's been one of those weeks in which I've just been laying down words instead of anything more than that. Quite important for a writer I think... combine that with some extreme developments in the Dark Hollow/Burn camp and it's just been one of those weeks.
