Tuesday 16 August 2011

Iconic screen costumes galore!

The trouble with agreeing to write a book is that you do, at some point, actually have to start with the putting words together in some sort of recognisable, familiar order in order to create an interesting and hopefully stimulating body of information that may, possibly, vaguely be of interest to some other human beings on this planet. That is, as opposed to the rather strange and disconcerting beings that occupy the classrooms where I spend much of my days, attempting to impart knowledge, concepts, skills and deeper understanding in any capacity to frequently unwilling learners who would, frankly rather be watching the cartoon network. If any of them were to hear that I was writing a book, they would be astonished. Not because they'd think me incapable or that this might be an unachievable ideal, but because they simply don't connect the physicality of an actual book with real people who create them. So, I don't intend to tell any of them.
I was looking for inspiration and typed the title of my book http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=8253675 into a popular search engine and it came up as the first item (yay!). On clicking through to the appropriate link, I discovered that *shock* - someone had beaten me to it! There is was in glorious colour, with a synopsis that eerily rang as familiar as my clean socks - someone had already written my book, or at least everything I had intended to write, already, and they had published their book ahead of me! Every detail, every concept, even the cover looked exactly like the one my publisher had shown me. Then I scrolled back up and determined to find the name of this usurper. I felt a complete and proper charlie when I realised that it was my name on the author line... this was MY book, and all I have to do now is actually write it. Quite a relief actually!
So now, it's fabric sourcing and designing time. Perhaps I should go do that then!