Wombat's World

It's meme-o-rific time! Thanks to Pádraig, who tagged me.

RULES:
* 1. Post these rules.
* 2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about themself on their journal.
* 3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people
* 4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
* 5. No tag-backs

ABOUT ME: (trying to come up with things folks may not know)

1. I did not take a job with the State Dept in the late 1980s despite passing all the necessary tests.
2. I had an office around the corner from the famous crowbar skull when I worked at Harvard Medical School.
3. My favorite city in the world is London (okay, everyone knows that -- um, my favorite spot in London is either the secret garden in Regent's Park, or the Tate Modern, or sitting in front of Les grandes baigneuses in the National Gallery, hearing Pete and Dud in my head).
4. I have kept journals since I was about ten -- and have them all.
5. I have trod the boards only once: at the Globe Theatre in London in 1999. I played Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar, so I got to die, too. I was unremarkable: crippling self-consciousness does not facilitate an acting career.
6. I have not had a thyroid since 1987.
7. Great British comedy is my primary anti-depressant (thus I genuflect before Peter Cook).
8. I have a bottomless ambition when it comes to my writing (yet so little tangible success...)

Well, how very interesting, eh? In turn let me tag a random set of folks across different platforms, some of whom seem to need an excuse to post: the Queen, James, Wendy, Susan, Jenise, Catherine, Crispinus, and oh, let's say, Kelly.

I can't keep quiet about Jane Quiet, the brand new comic book I wrote and the fabulous Elena Steier illlustrated. I just got my copies this morning and they look fantastic. It will be in the next Previews if all goes well, but we're also selling off the website in the meantime. See the full-color cover here.

I think it was Elena's idea to riff on John Silence, the psychic investigator created by Algernon Blackwood, master of the weird tale, about a hundred years ago. John Silence was rich doctor, skilled in weird science and keen to explore occult phenomena. It was an idea ripe for reinvigoration.

Our Jane Quiet shares some of Silence's characteristics, but we've made a few twists, too. Most obviously we've switched the gender of the good doctor. We've also moved her to New England (instead of "merry olde" England) and made her a little less of a loner than her prototype. Jane has a network of friends and a strangely devoted personal secretary, Dorayl (more about him in a later arc). While she has some of Silence's reserved manner, Quiet has a little more patience with the less-enlightened public. However, she does share Silence's subtle and mordant sense of humor.

Wish us luck!

My blog is actually at katewombat.blogspot.com, but to post in some groups, you need to have a live journal ID. So this is mine.