Trying to get your act together to present yourself to the world is a tricky business. I took a few days off from blogging to write and found that when I looked at this blog having spent some time away from it, there was far too much material from other people here. Not that this was a bad thing but - despite what I might have said in the past about only having one home on the web - I see now why people like Gaiman, Joe Hill and Warren Ellis are running tumblr blogs - it allows you to expand on what you do at 'home' without diluting it. People who are into what you do aren't necessarily into the same things as you are - so I've relaunched my tumblr blog here and it will probably grow pretty fast. This last week has been fuelled by a wasps nest in my head over geting things finished. The first is my deadline for Raised on Radio is looming - I'm nearly at a point that I could call a first draft. After that, it should all move pretty swiftly as Eleanor moves in with the red pen and I start to type it up and screw it down tighter. By the end of the week, I'm also looking at launching a new series. I'm pretty excited about it as I think it's got really long legs but that's making me be a little too precious too but I shall try and stick to my Friday deadline. What I'd really like to do with it is launch it in a magazine... file under pending.

Talking of deadlines, I'm almost finished with the new bookazine for Jazz - it's easily the best work I've done on that front and (even if I say so myself) it shows. That's goes into production/design April 1st and is head for a mid-May publishing date. Somewhere in there, I also have another book that I've fallen behind with but all will be well. Honest. I just need to regroup a little but regrouping is hard when you've got two birthdays in the house in the same week and the unexpected snow that's falling appears to be accumulating fast enough to foil any plans to conquer the world.

Onwards... there are many words to put after one another. Preferably in different orders...