Got back to my PC and editing duties after a couple of weeks away. Began editing Book 7 of "The Demonata". The start is stronger than I thought it might be. Although it's a bit slow to begin with, because of the need to recap certain events from earlier books, it picks up speed relatively quickly, and I like the action scenes. Book 7's got a high action quotient. It's structured in three acts, and in each act there's an attack and lots of fighting.

It struck me, while editing these chapters, how far the series has evolved since I first sat down to write "Lord Loss" a few years ago. It's taken me in directions I hadn't dreamt of back then, and never could have imagined. I thought I was writing a single book about demons, where everything was fairly straightforward and simple. Instead I've ended up doing 10 books about them, and found myself spiralling off into wild and blood-stained corners of my imagination.

Coolio!!!!!

I watched "Constantine" tonight. It was quite a good film, better than many comic-book adaptations, though not as striking as some of the comics which inspired it. (I loved the Garth Ennis run on "Hellblazer", though I never really got into any other writer's take on the character.) In some ways "The Demonata" is similar to the "Hellblazer" comics -- they both focus on humans who have been marked out by higher forces (or plain good/bad luck) to combat demonic evil. The similarities only run skin-deep -- the two story-lines are vastly different, and so are the characters and tone -- but I'd definitely have to cite "Hellblazer" as an influence on "The Demonata", albeit an unconscious one.

Another similarity is that the producer of "Constantine" is the same person who will be producing the movie of "Cirque Du Freak" (IF it gets made by Universal during the next few years). Coincidence, or demonic destiny?!?!?