¦ dialling in from the Watershed Cafe ¦
13:52 GMT, Sunday afternoon, 23rd September. Sitting at a square table in the cavernous space of the Watershed, near window overlooking harbourside, grey skies but a bright light...pale and misty. I'm on my 3rd mug of coffee... buzzing and relishing the weekend so far. Yesterday was an awesome day. Grabbed a delicious lie-in with Jo, then up and about around 8.30, mug of tea sitting downstairs watching News 24, then a short drive to Coffee #1... sat there for a couple hours writing up notes on Dog Eat Dog, before I knew it the notes became narrative and I was there, bang, in the story, part of it, breathing it, so I looked up after an hour had swept by, blinking, to find myself sitting in the cafe again. Love it when that happens.
Swung over to Hagens at noon and ended up spending the entire day with him. Can't recall the last time I did that, totally indulgent, relaxing and fun, a whole day with a good friend doing...stuff. We played Wii. We drank coffee and chewded the fat. We ran through a play test of Yellow Dawn systems. We grabbed a curry at the fab place near Simon's pad... then drove on to the Showcase and watched SHOOT 'EM UP. A totally bizarre film but very enjoyable, dark humour and delightful in the fact it didn't take itself seriously...very comic book action and plot. I dropped Hagen off, came home around midnight, and instead of flopping down in front of the TV with a glass of wine... I padded through the house with the lights off, savouring the silence, the moonlight streaming through the windows creating black silhouettes on the floor and walls... I brewed a mug of Camomile Tea and sat in a chair upstairs, gazing out across the city at the hills of Dundry, just visible in the moonlight, shrouded in mist with specks of sodium-orange burning through here and there. The camomile hit me like a sedative and I shuffled into bed and had a fantastic deep sleep.
Had an E-mail from Kenn-Ole, the artist behind the illustrations in Cloudy Head, and the front cover of Yellow Dawn: he sent me a copy of an article published in a Norweigan paper about him, about Cloudy Head, and about me, my writing, about Cyberpunk and the print-on-demand publishing revolution. All very exciting.
Take a look here:
http://www.davidjrodger.com/cloudyhead-helgelandarbeiderblad-publicity2007-09-23.jpg
Meanwhile, sales of my books are steadily increasing: big thanks to everyone who bought a copy this month.
I've also published MURDER AT SHARKY POINT, a murder mystery game. It comes in a spiral bound paperback, allowing you to photocopy the pages, or simply tear them out to play.
Take a look here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1178668
Next week will be interesting. I've pushed PAUSE on the temporary job I was about to slot into... had a call from an agent on Friday regarding my CV, a prospective job role that is PERFECT for me... so fingers and toes crossed because it's all the best bits of my last job with a lot more focus on my creative skills.
Over & Out
Djr