Where'd August go?

Gak! An entire month without an update. I'm truly sorry. The truth is, I just haven't had a heck of a lot to talk about. I spent some time away, spent some time doing other things, blah blah.

Here's the sort-of-good news: I've spent a decent amount of time plotting the sequel to Practice to Deceive, and I've even started writing. I'm not in the proper writing groove yet, but I'll get there, I imagine. I'm also noodling around on a few other things at the same time. Basically, I'm procrastinating a bit, trying to decide what I commit to next. It may be the sequel, it may be something else. I shall go where the muse takes me.

In the meantime, I'd encourage all of you to visit Kitty Mayer's new site, which went live a week or so ago. I've raved about it before. So far it looks like my suspicions are correct and that yes, there are people willing to pay for masking-related content (surprise!) so congrats again to Kitty. I have another suspicion that she's making a lot bigger profit than I am on Practice to Deceive - but ah well, not all of us can be female or have admirable figures!

At the same time over on YouTube Jasmine Moarly has returned, another 'genetic girl', who's picked up a CFX mask. I haven't got it in me to talk in this post about the advances in silicon based masks but suffice to say, they're getting better all the time. I think inside my lifetime... we could see some incredibly realistic masks. We'll see... and with that inspiring thought, here's Jasmine's latest video, where she 'pranks' her girlfriend (or maybe... pranks us).

Happy Christmas!

Managing, somehow, to spend at least part of Christmas Day quietly writing. Couldn't ask for more.

If you get to be with those you love and be loved by them this Christmas, so much the better. If you don't, feel loved anyway.

Apropos of nothing - call it a cheap Christmas gift - here's a look at the excellent Catwoman fan film, Principles. I'll leave it to you to figure out why I like it so much...!

Getting jiggly

The cold's not bad enough to keep me away from the keyboard, but it is bunging my head up and slowing the writing down.

It's also making it harder to plot, and that's unfortunate as I've been jiggling scenes around, adding a couple and generally playing fast 'n' loose with things. This means issue 16 has expanded (in outline, anyway) and I have this nagging feeling the whole of Crossover won't be done until issue 19, perhaps. We'll see.

Also this morning, with some new capturing software, I grabbed and edited a clip together that probably had about as big an impact on the young GW as Betty Brant-as-Spider-Girl did. Ladies and gents, Nicholas Hammond as Spider-Man....