Count Orlock Funko Faces the Camera

Count Orlock - 1st & 2nd photoshoots:

Job done!

 Just one more funko foto-shoot remaining this Halloween now!

Rod Serling Halloween Pop 2024

1st shot lucky with this one. It's good enough for me anyway. Rod Serling from The Twilight Zone.

Halloween Pop Funko 2024

Okay, let's start this annual Halloween Pop thing off nice and year with the lenderary interplanetary grave-robber from Phantasm.  Yes, its time to meet The Tall Man. "BOY!"

Gigging Again

I haven't been to a gig for a couple of years nows. But this is a good enough double-bill to get me out of that funk. And they are literally playing down the road from me too. Bought the tickets this afternoon. 🙂

Upmarket Traing

Quite an upmarket location for today's training sesh. I could get used to this.

Catching up...

Malvern on the Rosie

We returned to Malvern today for their Autumn veg show.  It's a long drive (just over 2 hours) but I spent it reading about Malvern's connection with the authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewsis and their drinking haunt there, The Unicorn. We did plan to visit there after the show but ran out of time. Hopefully, we will get a chance for a literary pint on our next visit. Did you know, btw, that there is more than a rumour that it was the gas-lit street lamps, which still operate to this day, gave the inspiration C.S. Lewis needed for his book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The gossip goes that the author watched the snow falling as he and Dickens left The Unicorn late one evening.  "Wouldn't it make a beautiful opening scene for a story," he remarked seeing how wonderous the snow looked in the gaslight. And so it did.

Old Rosie had a hand in limiting for pic-taking at the show. The particularly strong cider lightened our moods even when the gales and rain eventually arrived.

And so there a not many photos to share of the event. And, as my, daughter remarked when seeing them, they are more than a little on the creepy side, loll

Don't ask!

Plans Update

I am not really enjoying working on my Gower Beaches. It has been a bit of a grind, to be honest. I think the reason is because I haven't needed to go out and take photographs for it as I already had the imagery needed for the book in my portfolio. I do need one trip out in Gower though as  I lost a lot of my stored files in the housefire earlier in the year and havent got photograpgs of the caves down Fall Bay. We are holding out on heading down for the moment as Mrs E is hoping that there will be another northern lights display in the next couple of weeks so we might be able to put two projects to bed in one outing.  Whatever happens, the Explore Gower Guide to Gower Beaches will be available from Amazon on November 1, 2024.

After that, I will be spending November working on my next horror novel, Familiar. I hope to get a full first draft of the book completed by Christmas.

My research on familiar folklore continues...

2025 should be a quieter year for my writing. Famiar should be out sometime in the first half of the year, and my only other blook planned for next year is Issue 2 of my Avalon guidebook series exploring the town of Glastonbury. 

Other than that, the only other publication I have planned for next year is another Guy N Smith zine. This one will see me more in the role of editor, designer and publisher, however, as this issue will feature the creative work of  varied creatives who fans of GNS. At the time of writing this, this new GNS zine has the promise of being something very special...
 

Sunset

Another cracking sunset tonight:

Gower Beaches Progressing

Continuing work (just) on my Gower Beaches guide.