But only a bit!  There’s still plenty to do this month, including a couple of projects I can’t say too much about yet.  Well, I could tell you about them, but then I’d have to kill you all.  And as I don’t know a) who reads this blog, and b) where you all live, and even if I did it’d take me ages to visit you all, and considering the price of petrol nowadays, it’s a scandal, it really is … well, it’s best I day nothing.

Here’s a great review for THE MAP OF MOMENTS, which you really must all buy if you haven’t already.  Go on.  Away with you.

And I might have posted this already, but what the hell, it’s a fantastic review of FALLEN so take another look.

I’ll soon be undertaking a ‘Blog Tour’ to promote the paperback release of FALLEN and the hardback release of THE ISLAND, so watch this space for news, dates and other exciting stuff.

No new book covers at present, so here’s a picture of me and my dog Blu instead.

Right, have a great weekend.  I predict gardening, DIY, a meal out somewhere, and real ale in my future.

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Working on a super-double-top-secret screenplay project with a good friend of mine tomorrow … I’m sure a coffee shop visit or two will be involved.

Had a nice New Year’s present from Gwent Police – a speeding ticket!  Haven’t heard how much I’ll be fined yet, but it’s three points on the licence.  Good job they haven’t got any real criminals to catch grumble grr.

It’s been a good week workwise.  I’m well into my new novel ECHO CITY FALLS, having a great time with it – though today it took a three mile run for me to think myself out of a corner I’d successfully written myself into (no mean feat for a post-Christmas fat bastard like me) – and I can’t wait to see how this one turns out.  That’s an exciting part of any novel writing project for me … I produce a detailed synopsis to set up the deal with the publisher, then when I’m writing that often gets defenestrated at the first plot turn.  And I always look forward to seeing what happens at the end!

Have a great weekend!  Sometime over the weekend I’ll be posting a new Recommendation or two for you.  Watch this space!

And talking of starting something, I began my brand new dark fantasy novel ECHO CITY FALLS today! I fell into the swing of things pretty quickly, and I’m really pleased with the prologue I wrote. This really is dark fantasy ….

In part, the review says:

Urban realism meets dark fantasy in this spine-tingling second collaboration between authors Golden and Lebbon (after 2008′s Mind the Gap) as they merge the repercussions of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans’ terrifying ghostly past.