bad signal WARREN ELLIS National holiday, here in the mother country. But not for me. Too much to do. Hit a slowdown point on two jobs, where I can't quite see where to go next. Mike Moorcock had a formula for that, when he was writing fast: descend into a minor character. But that doesn't always work when you're writing in 22-page units. Not getting enough bloody sleep is the problem, but deadlines don't move. Reviews continue to come in on the novel. Mostly positive, amazingly: I've had two or three beatings, but, to my great amusement, one of them seemed not to have read the book -- "quoting" things that aren't actually in the book is always a red flag -- and the others seemed to have had their sense of humour surgically removed. On the whole, I seem to have gotten away with it. Which was the absolute best I could hope for. Though if I ever meet the Entertainment Weekly reviewer who called what I do for a living "picture books".... And last week I wrote a couple of hundred words on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for a Rolling Stone feature on the autumn US tv season. I'm presuming that'll be out sometime next month. Back to work. --------------- from mobile device ................... UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mailman.flirble.org/mailman/listinfo/badsignal