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Monday - Early February 2008

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦

07:47 GMT, 11th Feb 2008...early Monday morning. Baby blue colours are seeping into the grey-gloom sky as night fades into day. A lava lamp is casting deep red light across the desk; Pink Floyd is playing on random selection through my laptop. Back in Bristol now after a few days in Newcastle. I flew up there in a gale that had the plane thrown around like a cork trapped in a turbulent river. It's not often I think I'm about to die. Interesting who you think about during those moments.

I was up there for a long weekend, to relax, work on Shadows of Quantinex, and take stock of the last few weeks.

It's been an amazingly productive and positive few weeks for me, despite seeing the New Year in sat in a chair in a darkened room, 3 o'clock in the morning, shivering and delirious, rubbing my hands repeatedly across my thighs and rocking back and forward...sweat seeping through my bed clothes, too hot... too cold... and eventually dropping to the floor and puking up a lung. I remember thinking, "Please don't let this be a portent of my year to come...!"

So far thought, a cautious so good. I finished and released Yellow Dawn, after 2 years of development, play-testing, writing, play-testing, reading-reviewing, play-testing and editing; and I found TESCO have started selling one of my novels, God Seed.

I gave Yellow Dawn a soft launch, so sales are very slow, but I've already picked up web-chatter on a forum about it, by people I don't know and scarily...have no control over; I'm waiting to see their opinions once their copies of the game arrive. Hopefully it will be positive and stand up to scrutiny.

Music on laptop just changed to Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant (an albumn I got into waaaay back in 1993)... damn, *stops and sits upright* in fact, I just realised, I first got into this album when I first started mapping out a plot-idea, one that eventually became the first incarnation of God Seed. How ironic, in the light of the fact I'm now talking about the progress of God Seed following it's birth into the real world. TESCO, Waterstones, and several other resellers have now made God Seed available through thier channels. Sales are up.

I have to mention the amazing encouragement I've had from Floyd Hayes, my publicist in New York. Naturally he's been getting aquainted with the work he's intending to promote, and for the last few months I've been getting these sporadic bursts of incredibly positive feedback. Thank you!

Music has now switched to Faithless, one of their timeless classics from the mid/late 1990s. Time to wrap this up I think.

Hope you enjoy reading these musings.

Peace

Djr