Engine Punk

Well, there's nothing on my playlists anymore. During the production of The Horsepower Whisperer and The Wormton Lamb , I developed a playlist of music that inspired me for each book. Either that or I could imagine certain songs contributing to the sound track to the film of the book. A new playlist is currently emerging as the soundtrack for The Grey Ones , which will be the third part of the Soul Trader Trilogy. This is very exciting - I love this process! I don't know what song or scene will happen next and the plot is evolving nicely. The social networking site Imeem enabled me to put these songs onto the net and share them - my idea was that readers could experience a multi-media event by reading the book and/or listening to the tunes. Imeem appeared to have the licensing arrangements all sussed but then it began to unravel. Instead of playing the whole samples, Imeem began to only offer samples. Often they were from the middle of the song so my playlist sounded bloody aw...

After trying MySpace and Bebo and not finding either to my liking, I couldn't see the point of going on Facebook for a long time but now I'm on there, I think it's great. When you join, it strips all your e-mail addresses out of your mailbox and sends messages to your mates to tell them you're on Facebook. And blow me if most of them aren't on there already! I've had ping pong games of messages with friends in real time (that never happened with e-mails) and I can let my little circle of friends know what I'm up to and what the next exciting event for Anarchadia Publishing will be. I can post photos and links - it does everything that e-mail can do but better. After the usual initial flurry of interest, I've found Facebook to be a useful tool. For networking it seems ideal. I'm on there to promote my writing mainly but I can easily see why it could become addictive. You can even be fan of someone. But I would like to be someone who has fans...