…With a shaven head. Actually that’s not true. It is, in fact, a House Of Pain lyric. Although I have in the past spent a year dead for tax reasons, I have not recently returned from a post-mortem status nor, god knows, do I have a shaven head (much as it would delight my mother if I were to lose this shaggy mop I’m currently rocking). It is, in fact, no more than a feeble attempt to bury the lede and get myself typing again as I have been away from the blog-fields for quite some time now (couple of years, by my reckoning) and can’t quite remember how it all works. I packed it in originally for various reasons (privacy concerns, business went mental, couldn’t generate enough snark) and haven’t missed it if I’m honest. Any autobiographical urges I might have had have been slaked by Twitter (I’m @Bookpirate if y’all want to say hello) up until now. I’m dragging myself back to it now because… well, because life got too interesting not to talk about, I guess and sometimes you can’t say everything in 140 characters.
This coming year is shaping up to be interesting times (in the full Chinese sense of the phrase) and I’d like to document it (and remorselessly pimp upcoming projects and my own undoubted genius of course).
In the next 12 months I’m, in no particular order, making an independent feature (with, y’know, proper actors and a budget), launching a webcomic or two, adapting some classics, setting up a new publishing imprint or three, helping to save Bletchley Park, founding a charity, attempting to be a parent to a rather noisy 12 year-old girl and trying very, very hard not to undergo complete mental and physical collapse while doing all of the above (important one, that last one). It will, if nothing else, not be boring.
Frankly, reading that back to myself, I’m rather concerned that the whole plan might be some awful manifestation of bi-polar disorder and I’ll be a quivering, catatonic wreck by the end of the year. We shall see. I can only hope that the unholy art of GTFD will carry me through, sanity intact.
Erm.. so that’s it really. A pin in the board. Expect much on film making, lots of comic art, some writing stuff, snippets on publishing and occasional sobbing about everything else.
TTFN