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December 15, 2005
Botox Bedford in "Interesting Times"!
This past Tuesday morning saw Michelle and I front up to the office of a neurophysiologist here in town. Michelle was there for support purposes. I was there to have my forehead injected full of Botox (20 separate shots!). Yes, you heard that right. My neurologist surmised that my endless bloody headaches are caused by spasming of various forehead muscles, so by effectively paralysing them with Botox, the headaches might stop, possibly for up to three months. Which, if it happens that way, will be bloody brilliant! The kicker is that the stuff takes a week to start working, which means that I can still pull funny faces for a few days yet.
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I wrote earlier that I was "Stuck, stuck, stuckety-stuck". No more. I sat down and thrashed out some notes, in which all kinds of plot goodness came pouring out. There is now a clear way forward, and even a few leads for possible end-game scenarios. What's more worrying is that so far the book is really lacking the heavy-duty conflict/drama in ECLIPSE. I have a feeling my choice of protagonist is the fundamental problem. On the other hand, the plot machinery I've just dreamed up will supply quite a bit of conflict/drama. I plan to keep going, and see what I've got at the end.
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In the news today was a note from the Director of the Aurealis Awards, who congratulated me for ECLIPSE getting itself shortlisted for this year's Awards, in the Best Australian SF Novel category. There are just four finalists this year in my category (out of a total of eight eligible works), and the other three authors are pretty heavy-hitters, one way or another. Eep. All the same, this is the second shortlisting in two years for my books. That's fab! (I'd link to the Awards site, but last time I checked, they hadn't updated the site with the finalists' details yet.)
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Last, I wrote in the previous post that I was tensely awaiting an important phone call regarding something all mysterious and exciting. Instead I got an email, but the email informed me that this particular Very Important Person is off on holidays until after Christmas, and won't be deciding anything before then. [angst] I still don't want to jinx it by mentioning details or anything, but I might reveal that it involves an Australian publishing company whose name rhymes with "Sharper Pollens". This company might be interested in snaffling certain of my works.
The suspense is killing me. And, so far at least, I can still look like the suspense is killing me. Once the Botox kicks in, I won't be very expressive at all, so you'll just have to take my word for the whole killing/suspense thing.
Posted by adrian at December 15, 2005 09:09 PM
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Mmmm ... interesting (but possibly straight faced) times.
What a pressie though! No head pains and interesting emails for Christmas!
Posted by: Alethea at December 16, 2005 09:09 PM
w00tilicious!
Posted by: river eselkie at December 16, 2005 02:30 PM
Treefen may think you look as sexy as Nicole, but with the best will in the world the rest of us may have to demur... But if it helps the aches who cares!?
Great news about the Aurealis award nomination too, well deserved I'm sure (I still haven't managed to obtain a copy of Eclipse, but it seems like that may not be a problem for much longer either!) Good luck with the awards and the local publisher.
Posted by: David S. at December 16, 2005 05:03 AM
Parker Rollins? You can add another w00t to that, as well as Eclipse making the Aurealis shortlist! And here's hoping the latest attempt at banishing the headaches works, old bean.
Posted by: Charlie at December 16, 2005 01:02 AM
You may be less expressive, but you'll look as sexy as Nicole Kidman. Have you seen her unnaturally smooth forehead? Very Botox-y. At least you've got a good reason to get the stuff, instead of silly vanity.
BTW, Farper Mollins, eh? w00t! That's more exciting than ten truckloads of monkeys!
Posted by: treefen at December 15, 2005 10:23 PM
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