It's been a criminally long time since I last posted an entry in the old livejournal. I have been pretty busy, but the real reason for my absence was the sad lack of stuff to write about. Still, I've decided to write an entry as two months is too long, and now I do actually have some interesting things to talk about.
Firstly, let me say I hope all of you had a good festive season and I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2008.
Right, with the pleasantries over, here's what's happened in the last few weeks:
I'll start with the best thing: I won an ARC of Joe Abercrombie's novel Last Argument of Kings. OH YES. What made it all the sweeter was that it was not just the luck of the draw, but the fact that Joe actually considered my entry worthy of winning a copy. Check out the post here: http://www.joeabercrombie.com/2007/12/i-deserve-proof-because.html This is easily the coolest thing I've ever won. It is even going to have a personalised message inside. Nice. Plus the best thing of all is that I get to read the final chapter in the First Law trilogy BEFORE THE COMMON MAN ON THE STREET. Excellent. I think my copy arrived on Friday but because our postbox is too small it was sent to a depot somewhere. I'll need to get it re-directed and that will waste valuable time. Gaaah...
My short story 'A Song for the Dead' was rejected by Sorcerous Signals. It apparently made it onto the 'maybe' pile but ultimately 'didn't grab' the editor enough. Sigh.
I've written a new short story called 'Potatoes.' It is about a guy who is obsessed with potatoes (omg, seriously?), and a girl who becomes obsessed with him, despite her growing revulsion towards him. It's the first time I've written something that has made my skin crawl. The story is strongly influenced by 'The Pear-Shaped Man by George R. R. Martin which is an amazing horror story. Check it out in his Dreamsongs anthology.
Last, but not least, I've started a new blog about speculative fiction. I'd been toying with the idea for a while, and so I decided to go ahead and do it. The blog is called Speculative Horizons and will have book reviews, author interviews and other various tasty speculative snippets. There might even be some Terry Goodkind piss-taking. The blog has only been going a week, but there's already three book reviews up with some other stuff. Other material will be added as the days and weeks pass. I'm having a lot of fun with it and it looks pretty cool. The blog can be found here: http://speculativehorizons.blogspot.com/
Please feel more than welcome to drop by and check out what new stuff I've posted. I ought to say that this blog is by no means replacing my livejournal, I will continue to post here about my writing and whatever stuff. Sepculative Horizons is just a hobby where I can talk about other people's writing.
As for my own writing plans this year, I've not really made any. But after toying with the idea of writing a screenplay, I'm thinking about the novel once again. I'll post more about this when I know more.
In December I also:
Went to Prague. It was good. Very good. Everyone should go.
Bought an Xbox 360. Halo 3 is good. Very good.
Wondered how the hell I'm going to write a novel when I'm maintaining a new blog and have an Xbox 360. Watch this space...
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jgthomas) wrote,
cheerful
