I’m very busy, which is always good. Into the final stretch of the novel. Which is an emotional time, because I’m having to deal with some big stuff in the writing of it. I may well write the words ‘The End’ this week, and will blog when I do. But I’ve been writing myself notes along the way about many different things to fix when I go back over it for the last time before sending it to my Agent. The word on draft one of Primeval is good, and I’m having a meeting with them next week. And I’m also working on a few more things I can’t talk about yet.
We’ve registered for Worldcon in Yokohama, and I’ve voted in the Hugos, pushing the Doctor Who team vote, obviously. And I’ve nearly got to the end of the vastly tortuous process of actually getting a room in the nearest hotel, the last hurdle being that we don’t own a credit card… and we should!
Yesterday, I did a lovely interview with Gill Oliver, a journalist on The Oxford Times, for a forthcoming feature. I’ll let you know when it’s out. Tonight is the Clarke Awards, which I always have fun at, and moreso now that I know the British SF gang and have many friends going. And I shall have my Agent alongside me, so there will be fun. Then on Friday we’re off to see the new Ghost In The Shell anime movie, Solid State Society (and an episode of the very patchily funny anime comedy Cromartie High School, for some reason), introduced by anime expert Jonathan Clements, as part of the Sci-Fi London film festival:
http://www.sci-fi-london.com/2007web/moviepages/gits-sss.html
To which we’ll also be popping along on Sunday, to join a team as part of their Pub Quiz. Many of my new aquaintances in Third Row Fandom should be enlivening these events, and I believe there will be noodles beforehand on Friday.
On Saturday, my wife’s folk band The Magpies will be playing Faringdon, and then next week, on Monday evening, the nineteen piece rhythm and blues orchestra for which she is one of the three girl vocalists, Boogie Me, will be playing here in support of former Squeeze man Chris Difford:
And that Friday, I’ll be guesting at the Bristol Comics Expo:
http://www.comicexpo.net/events.html
Where I’m pleased to say that I’ll be sharing a panel with Allan Heinberg, writer of Grey’s Anatomy, The O.C. and now, for comics, Wonder Woman and Young Avengers, on the whole TV/comics crossover thing.
Phew! Still, it’s good to be busy! Wish me luck, and I’m sure I shall see you again in the meantime. Cheerio!
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