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Cheery news from the Oxford University Press, who have asked me to dramatise Marcus Sedgwick's wonderful Gothic novel 'My Swordhand is Singing' for the Oxford Modern Playscript series. It's a quite stunning read and should be great fun to work on. It means I'll be spending a good part of the winter grappling with vampires. Very jolly.
Also worth noting that the BBC Writers' Room is making six of my Archers' scripts available for download this week (October 20th - 26th), should you wish to see such things. They can be viewed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/be-inspired/the-archers-week
And finally - the butterfly above is a Northern Brown Argus. Spotted and photographed after a two hour wait in the sand dunes at Pease Bay on the east coast of Scotland in June this summer. Nothing to do with writing, but a splendid 47th butterfly in my incredibly slow attempt to see all 59 British butterflies.
Butterflies in the summer; vampires in the winter. It's the year of winged beasts.