This’ll probably be my last blog entry of 2011. The time when people might traditionally be expected to write about resolutions. Not me. I don’t make them. Never have. I’m not exactly an introspective person. Sure, I meet deadlines and I schedule and plan things and stuff like that, but I don’t do resolutions. One day at a time, for the most part. I have to turn in a manuscript on April 1 and I will meet that goal, but I don’t resolve to do it. I’ll simply do it! I also have a 25,000-word novella to write in the first quarter of the year and I plan to do that, too. Again, not resolutions—simply plans.
I finished Dexter Is Delicious and went straight into the most recent, Double Dexter, in which Dexter is seen by some unknown party while exacting his particular form of vengeance. He spends a couple of days fretting about what will happen as a result, gets moody, and then decides to become proactive, though he has scant information to go on in identifying the person. Still waiting to see where Lindsay will go with the bombshell he dropped at the end of the previous book. The cannibalism plot in “Delicious” was a little over the top, especially with regard to the characters who wanted to be eaten.
We finished Prime Suspect. The last part was really good. Hard to see Tennison fallen so far. She still has her job, but she’s boozing it up hard by the time The Final Act comes around. Poor old Bill Otley looks like the years have been unkind to him, too. Laura Greenwood is excellent as the 14-year-old Penny who befriends Jane and who becomes increasingly important to the case as it progresses. There’s a decent making-of feature on the DVD, too. Much more substantial than the one with the sixth series.
I heard yesterday that The Spirit of Poe anthology will now be released on January 19th, 2012. It’s a fitting date: Poe’s birthday. The anthology contains my story “The Case of the Tell-tale Black Cat of Amontillado (with Zombies and an Ourang-Outang)” or, as I generally call it, the Tell-tale Mash-up.
Have a safe holiday weekend and catch you all on the flip side.
