¦ dialling in from sky bunker ¦
02:52 AM on the 14th Feb, 2008. Life support is on, blowing warm air across my legs. TALK TALK, Living in Another World has just come on the laptop via random play.
Went to bed early last night - following the Monday night whisky session with my boss and generally burning the candle this week. I woke up and my brain snapped alert. I thought it was about 4Am so got up to get in some writing before work... but after pulling on my thick Norweigan hand-knitted socks and Starsky cardi, padding downstairs and brewing the first mug of tea for the day, I discovered it was only just past 1 o'clock in the morning. Bugger! It's been pretty cool though...brain's working okay despite the time.
So I've spent the past couple hours working on Shadows of Quantinex, just wrapping up a major chapter set in a city in Eastern Europe (interesting going back there in a fictional sense after the trauma of getting kidnapped/robbed there a few years ago: the usual honey trap that I still can't believe I was stupid enough to fall for, but there you go). So I'm very pleased with progress on Shadows...
I'm also pleased with sales. I quickly checked the sales figures from my publisher, what a delight...in the 6 weeks since the New Year, I've sold as many books as the last 6 months of 2007. Launching Yellow Dawn has certainly helped, although I'm not seeing much cross-interest from people who buy Yellow Dawn in then going on to buy my books. I'm quite surprised by this. I mean, these are people who are "into" Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and the Cyberpunk genre... my novels walk the same path (although in an earlier period to the setting of Yellow Dawn)...so I think I need to work harder (somehow) on putting this point across. Mind you, it could just be the fact people think my books are crap! *smiles*.
Ah, GREEN DAY, Boulevard of Broken Dreams has just come on. Nice.
Right, enough of this, back to Eastern Europe...
Oh yeah, it's Valentines Day. Whoo-hooo! *cynical*
Good band though (MBV)
Djr