As some of you may have noticed, the layout of the site has undergone some minor changes (although I don’t think my web designer, Christine, would thank me for calling them minor!). From now on, when you click through to the publicity page for JFA you’ll find a list of all the interviews and photos opps I’ve carried out thus far (whereas previously they were all on this page, meaning that you had to scroll down them to find specific items). All you have to do now is simply select an item and click through to read it – what could be easier?

I was interviewed by BFK Books last week. BFK Books (also known as the Book Fiends Kingdom) are a charitable organisation dedicated to raising funds and awareness for the care of adults with autism, a condition that impairs a person’s ability to understand and interpret the world around them. To this end, they publish book reviews and interviews with authors for the public’s reading pleasure, then ask that people make a £2 donation via the ‘Just Giving’ link on their website. (For those of you that recognise most of this paragraph from last week’s blog, bear with me, there’ll be some fresh stuff along in a minute). To read the interview, please visit www.bfkbooks.com/node/658.

Total word count for The Beholder passed 98,000 words last week, and while I’m beginning to wonder if this book will ever come to an end, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Pretty much the first thing I do when I start work on a new book is to come up with a scene-by-scene plan, as this gives me a route map to follow once I begin the actual writing. The plan acts as a guide and nothing more – some scenes will get deleted, some get merged with others, completely new scenes are added, and the order changes more often than the dancers at a high rent strip club. Once this is done (and it can take a while as I tend to procrastinate like crazy at this stage) I then print out all the scenes and pin them to a corkboard, ticking them off as I complete each one to give a visible reminder of progress. Did I mention the light at the end of the tunnel? There's only six scenes left on the board that are missing a tick.

On the gig front, last week I saw the Automatic at the Norwich Waterfront. As expected they didn’t hit the heights of Funeral For A Friend (who I’d seen the week before), but they were good nevertheless, and the tracks off their second album (which is generally a bit harder edged than its poppier predecessor) went down a storm. As things stand, my next gig won’t be until 2009, so it looks like I’ll be going into live music hibernation for the winter!

Cheers,
Steve

What’s Steve been listening to this week?
Is This It – by The Strokes
This Is A Fix – by The Automatic
Enema Of The State - by Blink 182

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