Work continues on The Family Of Noise - after one or two (like, twelve) false starts, I finally decided on the cover artwork and it looks something like this:

I might make a few tweaks to it but it's starting to feel a bit more real now than two big notebooks of handwriting that even I am having trouble deciphering. I learned something about book design today too. It's hard to let the cover do the talking for you. It's especially hard to shut it up about what the book is not about but all will become clear in time. I even left some space up at the top just in case I can find somebody to say something nice about it - I'm sure the kids will have some words of wisdom in a pinch.

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The project on comic book tattoos is still pin-balling around and by some miracle, we're still on schedule. I think I'm about two-thirds of the way through it but I've been propped up by Mr Gamble starting on the production and design today and that's made me feel a whole lot more like I'm working on something real too, as opposed to just collecting a bunch of stuff in an awful lot of folders. The cover is coming together fast - I'll hopefully have a post of that early next week.

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I finally settled on a decent newsletter delivery system too - it will only come out when there's a good amount of things to talk about. The sign-up box is up at the top right of the blog... unless you're looking at an individual post here, in which case you'll need to click on BLOG to see the full list of posts. That's a nasty ghost in the machine. Must fix that one day...

...and now. Back to work slackers.