Edited the pages of Book 8 of "The Demonata" that I wrote yesterday, so the first draft is now officially COMPLETE!!!! I'll be editing it for the next 2 and a half years or thereabouts (it's due to be published in the UK in December 2008), but the hardest part of the process is now behind me, which is a relief. First drafts are the most interesting part of the writing experience, since that's when everything comes together for the first time -- but they're hard bloody work!!!! I much prefer the editing part!

Speaking of which, I returned to editing duties on Book 3. Made quite a few little tweaks, mostly making the rules of magic a bit clearer, and also giving a certain Bill-E Spleen a few more lines!!! Bill-E has a prominent role in the book, but as in "Lord Loss", we don't see a huge amount of him in the first third. One of my editor's comments was that she'd like to have a bit more of him, and as I'm a Bill-E fan too, I'm only too happy to oblige!!!!!!

Got a new "toy" today which I'm absolutely delighted with -- a combined DVD/VCR recorder, which makes the copying of a video tape to DVD as simple as the press of a button. I LOVE it!!!! I've given quite a lot of TV interviews over the last 5+ years, and have most of them taped. But this is the first chance I've had to transfer them to DVD, to preserve the quality and properly collect and catalogue them. My ultimate aim is to make them all available for download via my site, but that could be quite a while off (there's no sign of broadband coming to my part of the world, and it's not a task I'd like to undertake at ordinary dial-up speeds!!!). Before that, I might make them available for sale on a limited edition DVD, with notes about the programmes and my experiences, but that's something I'll have to think about a bit more ...