SHITS ME TO TEARS: Or Worse, EXPELLED Edition

Just rewatched Order of the Pheonix, and while it’s heaps better than I thought it was when I saw it at the movies (I may have been sitting in the front row/drunk), one thing is inescapable: Emma Watson is a pair of over-acting eyebrows, not an actress. Which makes for lulz, lulz that are extremely hot in a zomg-you-shouldn’t-be-thinking-that-at-least-not-until-after-movie-#4 sort of way. Take it away, Youtube:

The bit at 1:22 is amazingood.

What also shits me to tears? Music set to scenes from movies. Just please, for the love of God, leave your bedrooms, Youtubers…

To quote Katie, because, just like everything on this blog, this is all just a shamelessly way for me to remind you all that I have a book out, while broaching more popular subjects in the hope that Googlers find me and are so struck by my irresistable mix of unashamed charm and blatant hostility that they immediately rush out and by 700 copies of Loathing Lola: The world has gone to shit…

Day of Reckoning: MAGNUM OPUS

Feeling: equal parts nervous and excited.
Listening to: that song the Black Eyed Peas ripped off on their new album, ‘Mancry’ by Freeland.

Today’s the big day. I pitched Magnum Opus, novel #2 to my publisher.

I know I’ve been slack with the blog, my bad. I’ve been writing heaps, and I keep delaying blogging. But now, the day I’ve been holding off for a good month, has arrived, and so, it’s worth a commemorative blogpost.

Now, it’s one thing to be a published author, and quite another to stay published, so I always get nervous when pitching new ideas. Loathing Lola wasn’t a Harry Potter-esque $ucce$$ that guarantees that whatever I write next will be published, so I had to be 100% sure this was perfect before pitching it.  Magnum Opus has been brewing for five years, full-time for one, and I absolutely love it, but that doesn’t mean that others will.

So, now, I’m left waiting, ready for the Powers That Be to choose the story’s fate. If they give it the thumbs-down, what then? Do I seek out other publishers, or do I let the idea die? I don’t think I’m ready to consider that question just yet…

Here’s hoping I never have to.

I’ve been M.I.A…

Big update coming soon, I’m preparing a pitch to my publisher / running around promoting Lola…

I’m speaking at Bowen Library tomorrow, 4p.m., so if you live in Sydney’s East, drop by

William