Hating the Scammer

Most writers will have heard about Absolute Write getting pulled. (Doesn't she know how quickly these things spread?) Explanation here.

And it's all down to someone called Barbara Bauer.

Some stuff

So the Eberron novel is picking up steam. I was a bit worried at the beginning as it seemed to be a real struggle, but I know the characters a bit better and they've found their voices, which makes it a lot easier on me. I'm roughly a quarter of the way through and on track for my deadline. If I keep to the schedule, which I have been doing.

Other stuff.

I sold a short story to the upcoming DAW anthology Fate Fantastic, edited by Dan Hoyt. And Caroline and I have been brought on board the writing team for the drama school soap. So I have a regular paying writing job which is a very weird feeling for me. We're going to go up to Jo'burg this month sometime to tour the sets and meet the actors and producers. We live in Durban, which is a six hour drive away, part of the reason we weren't sure we would be taken on board.

The real estate drama series is winding down. We have the third script to write this week and then we're pretty much done bar rewrites. It goes into production in July and will be broadcast in September in a prime time slot, so that will be fun to watch. I lobbied for the last two episodes because they seemed to be the most fun to write with the characters' all having their emotional meltdowns, but the downside to that is we have to wait three months to see the episodes. At least we got episode 2 as well so we'll see that upfront.