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¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦

00:48 GMT, Sunday 12th October.  Black sky pressing down on the glass canopy above my head - sliced through with cold alabaster moonbeams.  Red lava lamp doing its thing on my desk, casting the room in a deep scarlet haze.  The new album by Inner Party System is screaming harmoniously from the speakers mounted on opposite corners of my desk.  At last!  I've been waiting months to get a hold of more of their music...ever since I fell in love with "don't stop" whilst surfing music video channels in a remote private villa in the mountains of Cyprus. 

Now that Edge is finished, the bundle of music I used for that creative vein has been relegated to an archive play list.  Solar Fields, Trentmoller, Entheogenic... deeply infused with the emotions of the novel; those albums will forevermore invoke the memories of that period of writing... just like so many albums for so many books going back into my history.  A real delight when I play them.

So I've been browsing new music with the intention of building up a play list for the next creative phase. This is a sample of what I've purchased:

() 8kHz Mono
() Aesthetic Perfection
() DeadMau5
() Empire of the Sun
() Inner Party System
() TV on the Radio

There is some blindingly awesome talent out there.

Doing the convention last weekend has had fantastic consequences.  New contacts.  A stronger presence.  The press release I sent out in its wake has generated further interest.

I've had some enjoyable correspondance from a bloke in Germany, who is proposing to write an article on Yellow Dawn for a major German Cthulhu blog. I'm flattered and delighted.

One outcome of this is yet another delay to me starting the new novel "Dog Eat Dog".  So this weekend I'm writing up an expansion pack for Yellow Dawn - something I'm intending to release as a free PDF - which allows GMs to swap out the whole Zombie threat and replace it with something new, something far more horrible and Mythos related.  Not sure if I'll get it finished before end-of-play Sunday... but I'm not working to any deadlines at the moment... so it can be yet another lesson in the difficult process of trying to relax. I actually spent a couple of hours sitting outside in the sun today, doing nothing!!! Wow!  Bliss.  And I didn't feel guilty about doing nothing. Even better!  So, I'll finish the expansion pack when I finish it. 

Big shout to Mary R in Toronto for all the positive words; to Floyd, my publicist in NYC, thanks for yet another massive push; and to Ms Blonde for being like a cyberspace character from one of my own novels.  *smiles*

Djr