New blog design

I’ve fiddled about with the blog design, as the more observant of you will no doubt have already noticed. I’m not sure about it at all, so if anyone has any opinions on the new look, let me hear them!

Gangrene: Looking great for a dead guy

I feel no words are really necessary . . .

News from The Onion

The Onion news website never fails to crack me up.  This, that I found today, is no exception.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/scott_bakula_jumps_into?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

On another note, I watched Peter Kay’s “Britain’s Got the Pop Factor” last night.  For the first five minutes I cringed, and thought Kay had lost it.  The show quickly picked up, though, and I can honestly say I haven’t laughed as hard in ages.  It was one of these shows that almost makes you want to give up writing, because you know there’s no way you’re going to be able to touch the level of brilliance being displayed on screen.  Absolute genius.

Now blogging on MySpace!

After weeks of tinkering about with the Wordpress/MySpace settings, I think I’ve now finally managed to convince one to talk to the other.  As of now, every post I make here on BarryHutchison.com should (all being well) be replicated on www.myspace.com/barryhutchisonauthor

I’ve had to cancel the other account I set up, because there was an underscore in the web address (it was /barry_hutchison) and that seems to be what was causing the problems.

So, if you added me as a friend under the previous profile, I’ll have vanished from your friends list.  Do feel free to add me again, wontcha?

Baz

Transient states of excitement

I’m back from Dublin now.  It was a long, devastatingly dull week, but I managed to get the first draft of my new 7-9 year old manuscript completed.

Once again, the title gives the whole game away, so I can’t reveal it yet.  Let’s just say it’s a comedy horror, it has Elvis in it (well, sort of), and is likely to put children off a certain type of toy for life …

Now, onto other news.  A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I would potentially have some exciting news to share soon.  That’s no longer the case.  I definitely have some exciting news to share.

But I can’t share it at the moment.  Once the contracts are signed and the official announcement has been made, I’ll be able to reveal more, but now I can only confirm that a major international publisher has made an offer for a six book series of mine.  It’s all very exciting.  I only found out late on Friday afternoon, so it’s still sinking in a bit.  By tomorrow it’ll really hit me, and I’ll spend the morning running up and down my street naked, and whooping like Tom Cruise on Oprah.

Current projects update

So, I’m still waiting to hear the final decision on one of my manuscripts from a top international publisher. They seem very interested, but I’m trying not to get my hopes up too much. Hopefully I’ll be hearing something this coming week, at which point I should be able to reveal a little more. Until then, my lips are sealed.

I’ve now finished the rewrite of the first of the two books I did recently for Egmont.  Did I say that already?  I just had a real sense of Deja Vu typing that sentence.

On the comics front, things are cruising along with GANGRENE.  I have a load more artwork to show off, but it’ll have to wait until I have a bit more time to resize it all for the web.  It’ll be worth the wait, though.

I’ve also become involved in a web comic project with four other writers.  We’re all running our own comic on the site, and will be posting a new page on a different day each week.  So I might be putting my pages up every Monday, for example, with the other guys filling out the rest of the week with their new pages.  It should be fun, if a bit hectic!

Anyway, that’s about it for now.  I’m off to Dublin tomorrow until Friday, so I don’t expect to be posting any updates between now and then.  Never know, though.