I took part in the latest Mind Meld at SF Signal. It’s all about eBook readers, and you can check it out here.
Had a lovely day in London yesterday. A Spanish lunch with my splendid agent Howard Morhaim, and then a couple of pints and a great chat with my UK agent Caspian Dennis.
Finished off listening to a woman arguing with her boyfriend on the train home. On the phone. All people who use their phones to make the public aware of their private lives should have them inserted.
Well, the first proton impacts have been reported in Cern’s Large Hadron Collider. Everything seems as it was, although who can tell what’s changed? Maybe mere hours ago I was sunning myself on a Caribbean beach between takes of my latest multi-million dollar movie, while Scarlett Johansson … well never mind.
Here I am still, and tomorrow will be a good day. I’m off to London to catch up with two of my several very excellent agents – Caspian Dennis, and the Top Man himself, Howard Morhaim. Be good while I’m gone.
One extract from the BBC’s coverage of the LHC made me smile:
The LHC will smash together beams of protons to shed light on the cosmos.
Not in a dramatic fashion, I hope.
No, it’s not the title of a new book of mine. It’s what I’ve got. And in fact my whole family have it apart from my daughter, who’s skipping around as bright as ever. We’ve got fevers, coughing fits and hot-and-cold sweats. And suffering from this, yesterday I made the journey to London for a frantic series of meetings with my agents Howard Morhaim (over from New York) and Caspian Dennis, as well as my lovely UK publishers Allison & Busby. It was a long hard day – and I didn’t have time to meet everyone I’d have liked! – but I’m glad I made the trip … especially as I normally only see Howard and Caspian once each year.
Had some news about an exciting new book deal! Watch this space for an announcement soon.
On the train home, feeling very rough, I resolved to have a kip. Imagine my delight when I realised I was sitting next to a woman with a 6 month old baby, and a family of 2 parents and 4 kids on their way home from a visit to Lapland. Oh well …. they were all very pleasant, and I listened, soaking up the conversations … it’s all research, you know.
And following news about the drastic shake-ups at Random House and Simon & Schuster yesterday, I just keep on keeping on. As a writer it’d be easy to panic, but panic leads to stress, and that’d lead to less writing getting done. I’m working on fantasy novels, collaborations, tie in novels, a crime novel, YA novels, screenplays, a TV series pitch …. and other things. And for me, that’s the only way to be. Keep your head down, and keep on on writing.
This weekend, my mate Mark Morris is coming to stay. I hope he likes dogs, because Blu has grown into a monster!
