Hiatus
It's been a long time since I posted here - mostly because of the death of Friday Snippets.
But I have been up to some writing-related nonsense, so I suppose it's a good idea to set some of it down:
- An agent is interested in C&C, but I need to rework large chunks of it. This is on my To Do list, but has been overtaken by a handful of other things.
- Rachel and I decided to bite the bullet and just 'publish-and-be-damned' a children's book to coincide with the birth of our friends' first child. It is available via Lulu and has now mysteriously found its way onto the American Amazon store. It is a parody, it's about language, it's full of picture-based double entendres, and will therefore probably only work properly for the British. (Also - I've been told off for only giving us 4 stars. I never was any good at self-promotion!)
- I've produced a film script in collaboration with a friend. It's far better than my earlier attempts at scriptwriting, and we're both rather proud of it (certainly of the underlying ideas and the characters, although my script formalism may be lacking in places).
- I am currently turning said film script into a graphic novel script for an artist friend of mine. Where it'll finally end up, who knows?
- I am currently in collaboration with another artist on a second children's book, also a parody, but this one much darker.
- Rachel and I are working up ideas for a second TV series. The first one is, sadly, on the shelf, due to the BBC producing a very similar series. *sigh* Isn't it always the way that similar ideas all blossom at once?
- Gasoline is currently sitting on a shelf niggling at me.
- I was asked to do a reading for a wedding. Unfortunately the friends in question couldn't think of a suitable passage. So I had to do a writing as well as a reading; standing up there reading your own words for the first time is nerve-racking! Still, it seemed to go down well, and I was quite pleased with it.
All this and running a technology company, too!

