I got asked on this very day to write a book for somebody. Not in ghost writing way - I don't know if I could do that even if offered all the money in the world. Well, OK maybe for all the money in the world I could but you know what I mean. This book is a bit special, I'm totally knocked out to be doing it. I'll (obviously) be blowing it from the rooftops once it's completed and I have a copy of it in my hands.
'What's so special about it?', I hear you ask. Well, on one hand, the guys that are putting it out have got the production values of NASA and on the other hand, it's something that I'm really into. That's enough said about it for now. Suffice to say, the final product could knock out an adult cow if you so desired and that's good enough for me.
Work on Turn The Lamp Down Low is coming on quickly now. I think that from here until Sunday will be a good chance to get a whole lot of it done before I'm going to have to stop again and come up for air - and that's OK. Plot is settling in. A new sharper synopsis has been written for the cover and promo stuff - I think it might even be the final version, but I'll sit on it a little while longer before I post anything on it.
I also hooked up again with my buddy Mark Poole and between us we resurrected the fallen giant that was to be The Ballad of the Goat-Faced Boy. I just need to make a few more tweaks at my side of things and then we'll reboot the whole damn thing and see what we can come up with. And this time, I'm not putting it down until the damn thing is finished. I'm sure I've posted previously about how long illustrated projects take to get off the ground but it's worth saying again. Illustrated projects take a long time to get off the ground and see the light of day - and if you're working with an artist of some value, you'll soon find out why.
Somehow, it's gotten to be quite late again - and for once in my life, I'm actually tired to go along with it. Our new-ish giant rabbit, who Eleanor calls Berry and I call much worse things, has taken to thumping her feet on the base of her house at night. Like at 4am. So far as we can tell, there's no particular reason for this but on the shortlist so far are:
1. Cat on the fence
2. Being an arse for the sake of it
3. The birds are annoying her (I'm reluctant to go with this one because she's also done it earlier in the night when there are no birds)
4. A full moon. I quite fancied this one as my favourite simply because it sounds cool but it wasn't a full moon last night. It was however a new moon. Maybe I'll make a note of it somewhere and try and figure out if there's any pattern to it.
As glamorous as number 4 sounds, it will probably come down to it being number 2, because sometimes, that's just how life is with animals.