Wheeeeeee!!!

Blimey, when everything happens, it happens all at once, doesn’t it?

So after months of not much moving on the writing front… I mean, stuff happening, but not in a kinda exciting ‘whee’ way, just in a getting-on-with-it-way, I’ve just had 48 hours of everything happening all at once.

Firstly, my publisher looks set to buy topsecretproject2.  This will of course follow up from topsecretproject1 which, as we all know, is published in 2014 under a name I can’t yet tell you.  I’m sure I’ll be allowed to tell you some day, but not right now.  So actually.  I guess.  This isn’t really a very kind thing to tell you at all, since basically all I’m saying here is that there’s twice the secret awesome happening now, instead of just a bit of secret awesome so yes.  Um.  Well I’m excited!  There’s also discussions about doing a topsecretproject3 though hopefully by the time we know what that is and I’ve written it, topsecretproject1 will be out and about and I might even be able to admit ownership of that.

Simultaneously with all this more stuff is going on!  There’s this devised play what I was brought in on scribbler on, Unfit for Females, going into Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, now opening in June 2014.

Then there’s film stuff.  Over in the US, a film producer who is a force of nature actually seems to be making progress – incredibly – with Matthew Swift.  She’s been working on this for 5 years, which gives an idea of just how horrible it is to be in development hell, but I’ve kinda had the easy job of sitting back and cheering from the sidelines.  And everything’s still a very long away from going somewhere, but… incredibly… there’s symptoms that it might actually be getting there… watch this space… cautiously….

Meanwhile, in the UK, there’s a production company working towards an adaptation of topsecretproject1 as well.  They’ve gone so far as to find an awesome script writer, and to my surprise, put us in the same room together.  This is a bold move as, by my understanding of it, two writers in the same room is always a dangerous situation anyway; and the role of a novelist on a film adaptation of one of their own books is almost invariably to tut, hum, hah and get in the way.  A book is not a film; a film is not a book.  If you were to ask me as a lighting designer where the best place to put an author is during tech week, I’d give a set of GPS co-ordinates for a small island in the Pacific with minimal mobile phone reception.  A similar principal could be extended to the question of ‘where shall we put the novellist?’ during filming….

So yes.

Stuff is happening.

It’s quite exciting.

And apparently, as ‘the source’ of much of this creative gubbins, I should take this opportunity to radiate sagely creative vibes.

Instead, I might have cake…