Hello, strangers

Aliya has gone on holiday. To Wales, no less.

I meantime, am trying to bring together all the strands for The New Goodbye. We have a cover; we have a behind-the-scenes video; we even have a bespoke song and a video team to create a music promo.

What we didn't have at the crucial moment was enough coloured card. We were due to receive two deliveries, but only got one, which meant the music video, which was due to be shot last weekend, didn't happen. Now this weekend the venue isn't available for long enough due to--get this--being double-booked with a writing workshop. Damn you writers! We can't shoot after this week due to clashing schedules, and the app submission deadline, so looks like the first iteration of the app may be without a music video. Still, if a novel, two short stories, a novelette by one of the best writers ever to grace the planet, an original music track and a demo, a beautiful cover and some great additional photography and a two metre long illustration aren't enough for you, well, you're just downright demanding!

So everything is under control. Even the press releases which I've been scribbling together like mad for the lovely ladies who are helping me spread the word, but no music video. As yet. Suggestions on a postcard.

In other news, this morning, in a professional capacity, I'm going to get to nose around the archives of Faber&Faber.

Keep on running

Aliya mentioned the other day, in amongst the spoons and Albanians--er, sorry, Bulvanians--that she considers herself to be a very stylistic writer. I'd say the same about myself too. I stumbled across this link to an essay by the Harukmeister on the Apex blog, where he equates writing not with running this time, but with music:

This is New Radio

And the lord of the veggies said, 'Let there be sound', and there was, and it was found at the foot of the page.

Reviewing it all

Serial reviewer David Hebblethwaite has a new, very well organised blog that contains all of his numerous book, film, tv and music reviews. Well worth a regular visit. Find it at http://davidhblog.wordpress.com