It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #4

Added on 16 December 2008

I’ve lost my morning pre-school mojo. Everything seems rushed. There always seems to be some last minute crisis. The kids seem to be arguing more, I seem to be shouting a lot. This morning, in the midst of the mayhem, One of Two stopped to give me a word by word breakdown of the fourth verse o...

Plan A

Added on 15 December 2008

I have given myself a small problem with the current planning for the Barney Thomson series. The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson has been reprinted, with its new branding and figure of Death on the cover, quite a departure from the previous cover concept. This new edition also has the number 1 on th...

A Bit of This, A Bit of Bob

Added on 12 December 2008

Behind the curve today. I started with a list. The clock on the Mac says 10:00am, and so far I've chalked nothing off the list. Our American friend Ron, who we knew in Senegal, used to say behind the curve. We started saying it as a bit of a joke, because it was such an American expression. Now we j...

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #3

Added on 11 December 2008

And so it begins... We have three concerts to attend in the next three school days. This is the time of year when you wish you had a job that worked shifts, or took you to Afghanistan at short notice, or to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Just something that would allow you to be unavoidably detai...

The Strange Case of Solomon Green

Added on 10 December 2008

A couple of days ago, before my mince pie packaging rant, I mentioned a couple of book ideas which I was jotting down to put to a literary agent. One of them would be kind of a big Ludlum-type thriller, and not really the kind of thing I do. It'd take a fair amount of research and a lot of writing, ...