Heh heh -- that has to be one of my favourite subject titles ever!! No, folks, I'm not coming out of any closets! I was answering some fan mail tonight and the first letter on the pile made me laugh out loud. I thought I'd read just about every sort of letter-to-an-author going, but this one caught me by surprise. Basically the girl, Lila, wrote to say that she's been a big fan of mine for a number of years. Back when she first started reading the books, she was about 11 or 12, and decided to look up stuff about them online. She found her way to a short story about Darren or Evra, only they had ... well ... a different type of relationship in this particular story!!! And that was how she learned about the in's and out's of gay sex!!!!!!!! The internet is a wonderful invention for the most part, but it does make it hard to stay innocent for long these days!!! Still, that's all part and parcel of growing up. We've all got to learn about the birds and the bees (and, indeed, the birds and the birds, and the bees and the bees!!!) sooner or later. I just never imagined, when I was writing these books, that they'd one day inadvertently play an important part in a young person's sexual education!!!!!!!!

That letter was easily the highlight of my day. Otherwise I did some more editing on Book 10 of The Demonata. (It features one of my favourite lines from any of my books -- "I gouge." Doesn't mean much by itself, I know, but in the context of the book it makes me giggle aloud every time I read it! You'll find out why when you read book 10 in a few years time!!!!) I went for a walk. Watched another episode of The Sopranos. It's punching hard now -- a main character was killed abruptly in the episode I watched last night, and my jaw literally dropped -- I was, like, "No! This can't be happening!!" Powerful stuff. Also saw Ocean's 13, which was slick fun like the other two films, but ... well, it wasn't very surprising. It told us very early on what the plot was going to be, and there were almost no deviations of twists from that -- it was simply a case of watching the story unfold the way we were told it would unfold. I kept waiting for the surprises to kick in, but I waited in vain. A pity, as I was really looking forward to this one. Not a bad flick overall, just a bit ... lame.

"Darren and Evra sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!!!"

Heh heh -- I'm still chuckling!!!