A little while ago I started working on a dust jacket for One Hit. My plan being that in the interim stages between finishing it and working with an agent on a publishing deal, I want to launch it myself at LuLu to proof it and study it as a live entity. As usual, being too close to your work can do you h.a.r.m. and only the brave should apply themselves to such a venture. Needless to say, it sucked and I know why. I had all these ideas and I threw them all into the pot and made a mess. Then, as if by magic, Ian (my old Burn honcho) emailed me and said he had been thinking about what the cover should be like and launched a raft of great ideas at me that we're going to start working on. He's good at this stuff, I wish we could work together more often. We'll see what gives over the next week or so. I'm almost inclined to post up the ideas here, but experience says to wait just that little bit longer.
This is almost like being a proper writer! Maybe this is what it's like all the time...
Talking of dust, on the flip side of the coin, I dug out my screenplay - Too Hot For Dogs - and have begun reworking it into the new millennium. It wasn't supposed to be on the backburner for that long but that sort of shit happens when you have kids I guess. I'm going to spend a little time twisting into part of the coming sinner619 story arc and redevelop back into a graphic novel and then we'll be ready to roll. We? That would be my (not so old) friend Charlie (f), who - you guessed it - also had some kids and got a bit sidetracked. She's good too. I'll steal some of her art in a day or so and post it here and we'll see where we get to.
The basis of the story is of angels in human form, which has been done before for sure, but not quite like this and once I've finished twisting with 619, it will be unrecognisable. The last time I picked up on these threads it was a very different beast and I was steaming ahead with Stephen Player who used to - and maybe still does - do illustrations for Terry Pratchett. In fact I'm pretty sure he does along with an awful lot of other things. Our first meeting - natch - was in a bar in Chester a long time ago but I still have the sketches that he did which I'll post here right now because they might as well be here as on an external hard drive.
Clip of the day: Fire | The Front
l-r, Lucy (the dog, obviously), Madelaine aka The Creator, Archangel Gabriel, Archangel Michael... other angels sadly missing in action (or in a different folder)
