Christmas Morning

Added on 25 December 2008

It begins with a slow awakening, the full horror of what is to come only a rumour, a silent murmur on the chill morning. And then, like the first ripple of water on the glass in Jurassic Park, it comes. Your eyes open, you stare into the darkness. Possibly a dim, grey light etches the curtains...but...

A Brief Departure From Yuletide Merrymaking

Added on 24 December 2008

The initial release date for The Final Cut was August this year, announced at the same time as the April 2008 release date for Lost in Juarez. I think I decided them about seven or eight months in advance, before I’d even started writing Juarez. When doing the whole publishing thing without th...

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #2,312

Added on 23 December 2008

Day Something of the Christmas holiday. The days are all blending seamlessly into one. A hideous melange of hyper kids, awful music, crowds of desperate shoppers and continuous loops of Wham! and Macca and Alvin & The Chipmunks. Holy Crap! New plan. When I’m King, I’m going to change...

Another Christmas Song Polemic

Added on 21 December 2008

In a hundred years from now my biographers will describe the incident that happened today at 1:32 in the local supermarket in the following manner. It was a Sunday like any other final Sunday before Christmas. Complete Hell. Lindsay’s kids were driving him nuts, and the happy facade which he ...

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #7 (School Holidays Day One)

Added on 19 December 2008

Yesterday was Day One of the school holiday. At the start of the day the three of us - me, One of Two and Two of Two - sat down at a meeting to discuss the day’s targets, in line with the recommendations laid out in the Report Into Running A Happy Family Life which we commissioned from KPMG fo...