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, ...

Butter Enriched Marketing Drivel

Added on 09 December 2008

It’s a cold, grey morning in Warsaw. Oppressive low clouds, the gloom of early December hanging over the city, a dull succubus to the spirit of the town, the normally ebullient and gregarious Poles transformed into a scowling, misanthropic bunch... I’m sitting at the kitchen table beside...

Final Cut Update

Added on 08 December 2008

In a bit of a down phase with The Final Cut. I started it a few weeks ago, thinking there was a tonne of work to do on the original manuscript and that I’d better get on with it. Didn’t want to be finishing it off at the last minute next summer, in the way that I’ve done twice this...

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

Added on 05 December 2008

Last night TPCKAM went down an escalator behind Viggo Mortensen at Heathrow Terminal 5. She didn't say anything, which is reasonable, because really, what are you going to say in that situation? "Hi, Viggo. These are dark days with an evil rising in the east. I feel the cold wind freezing the g...