And so back to 2009...

Okay, that's done (climbs back out his DeLorean and resets clock to 2009) - previous entries from old blog successfully pulled over into this one. Just wish I was clever enough to get them in front of this year's - never mind!

NaNoWriMo completed - 'Open Wounds' being just over the required 50,000 words to ensure 'winner' status in the annual writing challenge.

The post 9/11 supernatural theme gave me a few restless nights, so will be unlikely to return to edit of redraft that one for a while - much tougher than the children's book I wrote last year, but still fairly rewarding, even if I can't read this one to the children.

So, what's next?

Well, currently a 2000 word entry to Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' themed short story contest and, when that's done, dusted and in the mail, it's on to this year's entry for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger competition with 3000 word first section and synopsis of a crime novel - got till Feb '10 to finish that one.

Reading;

Just finished James Ellroy's 'Killer on the Road' aka 'Silent Terror', which was an amazing account of a serial killer and a novel that had escaped me until recently, after I saw the great man at the Royal Festival Hall and made note to track down all of his books.

John Harvey's 'Far Cry' lined up to read soon, but first a whole pile of John Connolly's fantastic Maine-set Charlie Parker novels to catch up on. On 'The Black Angel' now, then have got 'The Unquiet', 'The Reapers' and 'The Lovers' to get on to.

Listening to;

Richard Matheson's excellent 'Stir of Echos' on Radio 7 catch-up.

Looking forward to;

Christmas break - where I can catch up on all the movies, two seasons of The Wire and two seasons of Spiral, which are clogging up our freeview recorder.

So, who cares if Christmas schedule's not great?

Okay, back to the writing.....