Working on Saturday…of course!

Thought I’d just blog as if keeping a diary. I’ve been trying to follow my own advice these last few months, and that is to write first, and then take care of everything else.  It’s really easy to get up, then tell yourself, “Well, I’d better just take a grocery run, pick up the Fin Review, see a sick friend,” and so it goes, every day…do the taxes, take care of accounting, ah, there’s that ever-increasing stack of e-mail.

So I spent four hours at the computer, and then went out for groceries and visited a sick friend.

I’ve just started a new novel, first of what I believe will be a longer sequence. The series will be called Dark Companions, and the first book is titled Shadows in the Stone.  It’s a fantasy that takes place during the Renaissance (among other times!), and I’ve spent the past six months studying Enochian magic, the Gnostic Gospels, John Dee, Agrippa, to name a few off the top of my head. I’ve got one of the few extant 2nd editions of Dee’s A True & Faithful Relation of What paffed for many Years Between John Dee (a Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and Some Spirits. And that’s not even the whole title!

Sorry, boring…

My favorite character (in the novel), so far!, is the angel Gabriel.

And tonight I’m going to read short novels for Australian Legends of Fantasy, an original anthology I’m co-editing with Jonathan Strahan. It is a collection of original short novels by major, bestselling Australian fantasists. The novels will either take place in the authors’ popular magical worlds or will feature new universes that the authors will be setting new novels and series.

And then I’ve got to revise a short story.

Oh, and go to sleep!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…