I'VE had a very disorganised start to the New Year but have just about caught up with correspondence and other stuff now. All that means I can get on with writing – in fact, I've already made a pretty good start.
First up is the fact that artist Keith Burns and I are going to be working on a sequel to our vampire one-shot of a couple of years ago, Blood Psi. Actually, it's rather more than just a sequel because we're also going to be revisiting the original story itself – Keith's completely redrawing it and I'm going to be tweaking the script here and there too. We'll then use that as a springboard to continue the story as a graphic novel or mini-series.
Of course, since I wrote Blood Psi back in 2005 the main character's name - Ruby - seems to have become a bit more popular, what with the Kaiser Chiefs song and all. Then there's a character called Ruby in ITV's disappointingly mediocre Demons show too. I'd hate people to think mine and Keith's Ruby was in anyway inspired by the Kaisers or poxy Demons but we were there first so the name stays.
I won't be giving too much away about the plot just yet but the second chapter is set a few months after the first and begins in a remote French farmhouse where Ruby and Rebecca are in hiding from the vampire community's very own "police force". It's round about then that the shit really hits the fan...
* YOU'D have to pay me to watch Celebrity Big Brother but I have to say Coolio's reportedly obnoxious behaviour on the show hasn't surprised me in the slightest. Back when I worked for men's magazine Maxim I had the dubious honour of doing a phone interview with the Gangster's Paradise star. It was a little bit odd to say the least.
I called to talk to him at the agreed time and we started the interview (about some shitty straight to video film he'd made), then he walked off mid-sentence and didn't come back for several minutes. This happened at least three times in the course of our chat. While he was away from the phone I could hear him having a massive row with people in the background. One such exchange ended with him screaming: "I don't have any friends, motherfucker, only acquaintances and employees."
I remember being amused that someone called Coolio wasn't actually that good at keeping his cool.
* LAST week I finally got round to getting an account on Twitter – you'll find it here: www.twitter.com/andywinter1
3 comments:
hang on,you're writing a sequel to your one-shot special...?
the one-shot special that you published,in a format designed specifically to be treated as a one-shot,or standalone title...without any need of a sequel or anything?
so long as you do a septic isle prequel.
That's one of the main reasons why we're starting again - so the one-shot can still be a standalone story and the new version can be just different enough to act as the first part of something bigger.
It's also true to say that the original story wasn't that self-contained anyway - there was loads of stuff in it left hanging...
hmmm,if you say so...
did you catch any of barack obamas speech today?
stirring stuff.
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