A Peek At My Week! #58

Here are some things that happened in my life this past week:

News About Writing & Publishing:

Carrying On Writing, Regardless

I still have no news on any progress on the part of Moon Books i.t.o. removing my books from their KDP account. To the best of my knowledge, absolutely nothing has happened on that front since last week’s “Peek”.

Darla meanwhile, has undertaken to record and release “Panic! Horror In Space” via Spoken Realms. It will take a while, and I’ll still need to create covers for the audiobooks, so I’ll keep you updated about that!

In the meantime I’ve continued to work on “The Song of the Drillipede”, the final story for the next Panic! Horror In Space volume, “We All Fall Down”, which will contain three episodes of PHIS; “Dust“, “The Song of the Drillipede”, and “Hotel No-tell”. “We All Fall Down” will also replace the standalone version of “Dust” released two years ago as the third installment in the series.

Let me remind you that as a creative writer, I could make up a dozen reasons why I’ve decided to do this, but the brutal truth is that at one stage I thought I should just release the individual stories in Panic! as standalones, but once I’d released “Dust” I changed my mind shortly afterwards. There you have it in a nut-shell.

The title “We All Fall Down” alludes to the children’s rhyme “ring a rosie”, which has some bearing to the stories in this volume. As soon as I’ve finished “The Song of the Drillipede”, I’ll let you know when to keep your peepers open for “We All Fall Down”!

In the meantime, while writing, I’ve also done some fascinating research on the fear of mimes! Although not quite the same thing as clowns, many people experience a fear of these strange beings, which can be debilitating!

What I Got Up To This Weekend

Over the weekend I revamped the lounge chandelier to match the recently revamped ceiling rose. Previously, the fitting was covered in glassware and was a real dust-magnet that needed frequent cleaning – on top of a ladder! Worse still, the glass plates and pendants were held on with wire, which had become brittle and fragile – these broke easily with dusting, and a lot of them ended up in a packet in the kitchen Drawer of Crap (every home has one). I decided to revamp it, and this is the result – before and after pics below:

Over the next few evenings I’ll be painting the candlestick sleeves to match – I’ll be sure to post an update on how that turns out!

That’s all for this week!

With that, I’m all out of news. As always, I’ll keep you posted about any further developments.

Thanks a lot for all your friendship and support, I hope you know it is all deeply appreciated. Until next time, keep reading!