Latitude invitation

So, it turns out that the title of the Russian translation of Martin Martin's On The Other Side is The Dead Are Never Silent. It isn't exactly cricket to go re-naming a chap's novel without asking him first, but Moscow is far away. It's a good title, anyway, and I am enjoying the way ownership of a novel seems to slip away almost as soon as it is published.

More news comes that I am to appear at the Latitude Festival on July 18th, at 10.20pm. I'm sure a great many people will be eager to hear me read rather than watch Franz Ferdinand or a host of other equally exciting headline acts with lights and special effects:

'Oh, darling, Franz Ferdinand are about to play that song we liked with the funny time signature change, let us go along and watch…'

'No, sweetheart, Mark Wernham is about to read from his debut novel in the literature tent, a far more edifying experience, methinks…'

As far as writing goes, I have been constructing Foster Lake's sermon/Powerpoint presentation scene.

And I am still being distracted daily by strobist.com. I built a softbox the other day out of a cardboard box, silver foil and net curtain, and used it to do some underlit product shots. It was very exciting, but one of my Cactus triggers keeps popping the 580 EXII at random, which is annoying. I'll be springing for Pocket Wizards as soon as I have any spare cash. Click the link below for a translation: