Apr 2007
Does Heidi have a soundtrack?
When I was writing Lex Talionis, I did it in the modern fashion. That is, I took my laptop to coffee shops and wrote there. To help find my muse, I had the iTunes cranked with what I called the "Heidi mix". Featured prominently in that mix was The West Marginals, another group of artists spawned out of the Hugo House. If you cross-reference carefully, you'll find one of the WM's is thanked specifically in the credits of Lex Talionis. We worked together on the Surveillance Inquiry a few years back, where the first seeds of Heidi germinated.
The WM are now history, having gone their separate ways. However, the music lives on at their website. Their melancholy tunes match perfectly with the latter half of the book. I especially loved Well Fed as a theme to the Heidi-Peter relationship. Burning Fuel works well for Heidi's flight to Victoria. And Four Steps and Fall Down made me almost want to give Heidi a substance abuse problem.
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The Novel
Sat Apr 21 2007 Filed in: Book One
So yeah, I'm enjoying a little break from drawing 8-12 hours every week. But dont' think we're done yet. My editors have been working furiously to clean up the manuscript for the novelisation of HGGD, Lex Talionis. Expect it to be on sale within a month or so. It will feature "deleted scenes"and additional material. As the web comic was adapted from the novel, there will also be some slight differences in the stories.
In my copious free time (ha!), I'm putting the finishing touches on No One Knows You're a Dog. Expect to see some teasers and pics up soon. I plan to begin the "second" adventure in the Heidi series. (I say "second" because there is a Heidi prequel roughly laid out, which will appear as book four, SunDevil. I think ahead.) I plan to release new chapters sometime in mid-late summer.
Thanks again to some of the other security geeks as well a certain Amazonian for plugging the site. I appreciate any and all spreading of the word. And no, I do not plan to ever have advertising on here. Why add competition to visual clutter?
Some background material.
Redid the info page, adding a new link to a cyber-crime section. The cyber-crime page gives you some of the stories that have been made public that inspired this novel. Warning - there are spoilers on that page.