Spiderwick Chronicles theatrical trailer

The Golden Compass Clip - As We Pleased

The Golden Compass Clip - Contract

Golden Compass Author Phillip Pullman Talks About His Agenda

Making of Doctor Who : Time Crash

Doctor Who, Children in Need Special - Time Crash

Marvel/DC: After Hours #7

Broke in Two

I decided to take book two and separate it into two books.
Its ironic, because book one used to have both books one and two in it. I broke it into two and never regretted it.

Now book two has grown into books two and three. LOL! At this rate Annabelle's 300 year history will take hundreds of volumes.

Actually, I have a plan in place, but this only helps it.

This also means I now have a started trilogy. If it sells I can proceed to the others.

Book two is closer to being finished now!

More Golden Compass stuff.

I CAN'T WAIT! Long live Lyra and Pan!

Talked to a class of sixth graders today . . .

It was a blast!

Lets go back a bit. Over a year ago I finished my novel and began the edit process. I met a 6th grade teacher and asked him to beta check it. He did. He liked it and wanted to share it with his class. He read it to them and I spoke to the class about the book.

Fast forward to now. This is the next class of children (one of whom is my daughter) and he wanted me to come in and talk about the writing process, my novel and answer questions.

It always gets me charged up to see the excitement in children's eyes. I love it when they ask questions and get even more excited about the answers. I gave them another copy of the manuscript (the class already has one) so they could check it out and read it.

I love doing this! If I could get published, it would be so wonderfully amazing to talk with kids and share my stories. I just want to bring them excitement and enjoyment.

A very good experience.

Another request for a full!

Oh man! What a shocker! I'm still waiting for word on the other request (sent it the first week of October) and now a second request for a full came in!

So two fulls are out there! I'm so excited! I've got to take a deep breath and relax. I can't expect too much...

. . .but still!

I suspect its because Stephenie Meyer's insane growing popularity. I can't swing a dizzy bat without hitting a Twilight fan. Heck, I'M a Twilight fan!

Thank you Stephenie! Go Edward and Bella, go! Lets get people WANTING Annabelle and her brother.

... wow. I've never had two requests for fulls before.

Oh please oh please oh please!

And the other guy has an update. :)

He did another video. :)

I love this guy! I want these parodys on mp3!

Supes pic

A friend on the Parodyverse created this. I like it.

The Black Velvet Ribbon

I heard the original version as a child on an old LP. I was able to get an mp3 of it.

This is a satire of it...

A request for a full!

YES! I got a request for a full. Man I'm excited! Now I realize the chances are always high for a rejection, but I have to do a happy dance.

*Dances like a crazy man for a minute*

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!

Doctor Who rodeo!

YEEHAW!

Darth Vader Blues

California

Last week I went to Huntington Beach, California for training in Micro station.
The classes were Tues through Friday, with Monday being a travel/get to know the area day.

I had a really good time. I went with a co-worker named Dennis and his wife. She brought along her laptop to study real estate while he was in class. Class was good. I understood a lot and got ahead of things. Now I just need to remember everything.

I flew out on Delta. It was a small plane but the flight was good. The rental car was a Mustang. I'm not into cars but it looks and drives nice. It was too cramped, though.

I stayed at the Best Western Regency and they stayed at the Hilton.
Monday we all rested after the traveling. I mostly read the second "His Dark Materials" book called The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman.
Tuesday I stayed around the hotel and worked on the novel edits (Dennis' wife was wonderful. She let me use her lap top in the evenings).
Wednesday we went to Downtown Disney. Great place. The family is so going back!
Thursday I hung around the beach, the Pier and did some shopping at the little stores on Main Street.
Friday we got out of class early so we went to the pier to have lunch, looked around and then went to the airport early.

We flew out Friday night (I chose late Friday because I didn't want to be away from the family any longer). We flew out on Jet Blue and it was a better plane. There was TVs on the backs of the seats. I flipped through channels faster than a ADD person dosed in Crack. It was just so fun. :)

I really enjoyed the trip. I hope to go again someday. I was glad to get home, too. I missed everyone. I had a lot of time to work on the edits, but I waisted some of that time. BAD SCOOTER! I did finish Pullman's book and started on Stephenie Meyer's New Moon.

Well there is my travel story. Here are pics of the event.

Marvel/DC: After Hours #6