Life as a Crab
Well, hello everybody. I know, I know, shocking, Bethany is actually on her blog.
I don’t know why I hide from the internet so much. (Well, not from tumblr. I would never hide from tumblr.) I think partly it’s a combination of day-jobbing and writing, which means that if I’m not a desk jockey, I’m writing, and when I am writing, my brain shies away from talking to people–real and digital. And part of it is having kidlets, I suppose. Apparently they like it when you feed them and stuff.
But I think a lot of it is that I’m naturally a creepy recluse, and I prefer to be a creepy recluse on the internet as well.
I’m a Cancer, so this makes sense. *snaps crab claws together*
Anyway, update time! Landry Park II: the Taffeta Reckoning is finally in the editorial stages! Yes! Yay! This calls for drinks! The drafting process was…how can I put this? Like climbing a mountain wearing shoes made of broken glass all while being taunted by a certain petulant boy pop star and sucking on a Vegemite-flavored sucker, and there’s nothing in the water bottle except flat seventeen-year-old Surge and the only companions (besides the petulant pop star and his illegal pet monkey) are self-doubt and self-loathing and the knowledge that once you get to the top, there’s a second, even bigger mountain waiting to be climbed and guess what–there are shoes filled with even more broken glass waiting for you there and they are just the right size!
God, I love writing. I am not even being sarcastic right now.
So I don’t really have a timeframe for when the sequel will emerge bloody and howling into the world, but it will be sometime in 2015, and hopefully it won’t be as terrible as it is now, but even if it is, I will still win the award for Most Hours Spent Laying on the Floor Hating Life while I worked on it, and that is a fairly coveted prize in the writing community.
As for those who have been asking about movie stuff, I can’t say much yet, except that yes, that is a thing that happens sometimes with books, but also that it’s a long journey with lots of gateways and that most of those gates are locked, so while making it through one gate is exciting, it’s not a guarantee that any other gate will be opened–much like selling a book. Barry Lyga has an excellent post about that very thing. I will tell the world about any Developments as soon as any Developments are made official…
In the meantime, I would also like to extend an invitation for you to follow me on tumblr since I’m so rarely here or on Twitter. Apologies in advance for swear words, nerdy crap, politics and gifs of thirtysomething British actors.