Good Things

Happy birthday to my friend Judith!

Busy these days. I'm very much looking forward to visiting with my friend Cathy in Calgary next week, but want to get a bunch of work finished before I leave so I don't have to worry about it during my visit.

I've started a graphic novel project in addition to my new novel. I'm not going to talk much about the former for now (so please don't ask) except to say I'm pretty hyped. Not having scripted a graphic novel before, I've been throwing myself into mega-research mode, reading everything I can possibly get my hands on about comic scriptwriting. Many thanks to Rand for his recommendations. I've been reading comics and graphic novels for years, thanks to Rand and Reid (Reid sucked me into comicdom when we went out back in university).

I've also started writing some new songs. Most of my "work" is done during my walks / runs; I've gotten in the habit of not taking my iPod, and song ideas keep popping into my head. So now I'm thinking I need to start taking my iPod with its little microphone so I can record these snippets instead of panicking about whether I'll remember them by the time I get back home.

Also doing some song co-writing with a couple of friends (Jeff Bohnhoff and Scott Snyder) whose songwriting I greatly admire, and am pretty excited.

Life is exciting in general, and that's a good thing. I'd be even MORE excited if my kids' books start selling, of course, but meanwhile I'll appreciate what I have. :-)



Above: Cartoon commissioned by the British folk group, Playing Rapunzel. I am a HUGE Playing Rapunzel fan. In fact, they'd probably run screaming if they knew how huge a fan I really was. I've been waiting in anticipation (and financial dread) to see when their next North American gig is going to be, because I fear that I'm going to be compelled to go there, no matter where it is.



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