Warren Ellis's Blog, page 5

I think I may actually have briefly died in the night.

I’m using a Fitbit Flex to monitor my sleep patterns, as I’ve suspected for a while that they’re a bit fucked.  After the day I had yesterday (and that was only part of that day), I needed a decent night’s sleep, but that’s a bit much.

After Pic 050, SCATTERLANDS will be moving to a different site.  That takes the onus off me to update this site daily, and I’m availing myself of that opportunity.

I sent the last newsletter post last night: that system was paid for by my previous publisher, and therefore will now be switched off.  I have no plans to set up another one right now.

I may go into the field of competitive sleeping.

Due to continuing issues, I have terminated my relationship with Mulholland Books. 

DEAD PIG COLLECTOR is cancelled (for now).

If you pre-ordered DEAD PIG COLLECTOR: Thank you! And I’m sorry. Really sorry. Your vendor will reverse the pre-order soon.

The newsletter, MACHINE VISION, used a service provided by Mulholland Books, and is now closed.

Professional queries should be directed to my literary agent, Lydia Wills.  This constitutes my complete statement at this time.  In fact, I’m still in bed.

I’m cheating and setting this to post while I’m still in bed.  Because I intend to stay in bed for all the hours.  Or until I’m forced out with a crowbar.  Which means you’ll probably see me on Twitter in an hour.  Bah.

Ghostly, creeping-wave white-noise space drone.  My favourite thing for either imagining I have a space fortress or having a nightmare about being trapped in the Time Tunnel.

Transit timing observations from Kepler by Daniel Thomas & Kevin Sanders

The UK product page should be up very soon, to join the US page for the thing.  Still waiting for the links to other ereader systems to process.  I think we’ve settled on “digital short story” to describe the monster.  Live date is June 18 for the US, and June 20 for the UK.  I know nothing about its availability in any other territory at this time.  Proper press release and quotes and things are to come soon.

This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but it turns out that fully one quarter of the traffic to this site comes from the autoposter that sends out “new post” links to Twitter.

I was talking to Craig Mod the other night about blogs and websites, “home bases” and domains and the way things are changing.  An apt time to talk about change, when I’m here hawking a short story being sold by a big publishing house…

By the time we reach 050, we should know more about the first digital mini-collection thing.