(Post 1486)
Tags: Dr Sylver, Dr Sylver and the Tapestry of Time, Guildford Book Festival, Guildford Big Book Draw, Z, Artwork
Date: 24 November 2009 14:35:47
Life’s a doozy, no mistaking.
So where we at? Previously on Planet Kercal: chaos all ways round, tired most of the time. College none too pleasant, Sylver... arduous, Book Draw.... loads of work, loads of fun, loads of work still to come.
I’ve just had a meeting and, during it I described my year as not really much fun. That’s true and fair, although not 100% correct. Some parts have been fun, meetings with friends, new friends made, new classes of students, each with their own unique character and so on. It’s just the bigger things, work, health of those around me etc, that’s been the harder sea to sail. And of course the next book, Dr Sylver and the Tapestry of Time, has had a troubled culmination. It’s a corker of a story, just wish I could share it with you quicker than I will have the chance to. Speaking as a complete and utter raging egotist I do think Tapestry is the best thing I’ve written so far but it’s the project which has had the most challenging final process for a variety of reasons, no-ones fault per se, just.... well, stuff, really.
Anyhow, meeting today was about book... 8? 9? Who knows. A: I have one project in mind which is mostly done and I hope makes it to the shelf sooner rather than later and B: do I count the Big Book Draw mini-book? There’s only forty of them but it’s a story and a book and I like it loads. Do I count it? I think I will :)
So, book 9? It’s been on the cards for a while, and mentioned at a couple of book shows type things. Apparently it’s generating some American interest at the mo’ which is why its come to the fore now. We’ll see where it goes but today is the day it possibly got greenlit so here’s a preview image.
I hope it works out because, as much as anything else, it may allow me the chance to collaborate with someone who I am a total fan of which will be a very cool thing for me to be involved in.
Apart from that? Started work on, of all things, a sitcom with another good friend and collaborator. We’ll see where that goes but the chat sessions which are there for testing out material leave us both giggling so, if nothing else, it’s good therapy.
Apart from that? Making up the mini-books which will be sent to a variety of people (sponsors, friends, fish doodlers and the like) and a couple may well make it to places as competition prizes which will be cool if they do so; would like to see them in a variety of hands. They take a good 30 mins or so each to make (I’ve managed to streamline the process a little. The first ones took an hour each) and I hope I finish them soon to pass them onto those who deserve to receive them, ideally before Christmas.
From a creative standpoint then life is OK, bobbling along nicely. I just wish there were more sleep involved along the line somewhere :)
((no idea why the formatting of this post is broken, sorry, and I've tried to update it four or five times now with no luck, even taking out the paragraph breaks and readding them... Sorry...))