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February 1, 2014
Portrait of a Zombie
Back in February 2010 I stumbled upon the trailer for a new zombie movie I hadn’t come across before: PORTRAIT OF A ZOMBIE. I was so taken by the short clip that I posted it on this site and I also got in touch with the director, Bing Bailey. We spoke on and off over the years but it wasn’t until recently that I finally managed to watch the movie. I was browsing around Lovefilm one night, looking for a horror movie to watch which a). wasn’t crap, or b). I hadn’t seen a hundred times already, and there it was, right at the top of the list, just begging to be streamed.
And man, I’m glad I watched it. POAZ (as I’ll call it from here on in to save typing) was a real treat that I’m happy to recommend as part of my Post-Apocalyptic Movie Club. So please watch the trailer below, then click the link for my thoughts and a few words from Bing Bailey.
I’ll say at the outset: POAZ isn’t going to be to everybody’s taste. It’s a very original film – a curious hybrid of a number of horror movie staples. In the mix you have straight-up horror scares, traditional zombie tropes, elements of found-footage, and a healthy dollop of dysfunctional family drama. The strangest thing is, for the most part it really works. I asked Bing how difficult it was to fuse all these different elements and maintain a cohesive story. He told me “anything time you try to fuse all those elements you’re on a tightrope and you run the risk of not pleasing someone. Some people think the film isn’t gory enough. Some don’t get the humour. You have to care about characters before bad things happen… I think for the most part we succeeded in telling a singular story with all those elements. I did not want to just do a generic retread of what was already out there.”
The film focuses on a working class family from Dublin, caught up in a strangely muted, lo-fi zombie invasion… the living dead are out there, but people seem to be unusually nonchalant about the dangers. When son Billy becomes infected, the family choses to take care of him, much to the annoyance of pretty much everyone else (not least the neighbours and the local crime boss). An American documentary crew arrive to film their situation, the family hoping that with their help they can prove blood is thicker than water…
I asked Bing where the inspiration for the film came from. A native of Dublin who moved to New York in 1999, he told me that it “came from my love of the original Romero zombie films. I felt that modern zombie films were entertaining, sure, but had very little to say. I wanted to do what George did and have a film that had an opinion, had social commentary and satire, but still entertained. I wanted it to be funny with dark humor but also have heart. I was influenced to make it documentary style by films like Man Bites Dog and taking the style of humour from films like The Snapper and The Commitments. The film is not a documentary, it’s a film about a documentary being made that is never completed. Given we had such a low budget we relied on telling a compelling story over just pretty visuals.”
Bing said he’s been pleased by the positive reactions to the film from a wide range of people, attributing that to the strength of his actors and the characters they portray. There’s someone for everyone to identify with here: parents, siblings, criminals, priests, neighbours, the documentary film-makers… He wanted “to hit home how terrible life can be for a family trying to do the right thing in the face of opposition from everyone in society.”
So what’s next for Mr Bailey? “I worked on the 68th floor of the WTC and only missed being there (on 9/11) because of jet lag. That changed my whole perspective on life. I decided I was going to just take risks and try the things I wanted to do. I made my first feature in Canada in 2005, made shorts and music videos and a TV pilot leading to POAZ which I started in 2009 and completed in 2012. I think I have at least another two good zombie films left in me. The next film will be more of a creature feature fused with the supernatural set in an eastern European hospital called ‘The Donor’.”
As I said, POAZ won’t be to everyone’s tastes. It’s an unusual film that takes a very different approach to many other zombie movies. I enjoyed it a lot, and I definitely recommend you check it out. The official site is here and you can follow the movie on Facebook here. UK folks can stream the film on Lovefilm or get it on DVD. Those in the US will get to see the movie in 2014 – release dates are due to be announced shortly. The film’s also available on DVD in Germany and Japan.
Portrait of a Zombie is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 31, 2014
AUTUMN: AFTERMATH update
In case you’ve pre-ordered but you missed the email I sent earlier in the week, the much-delayed limited edition hardcover of AUTUMN: AFTERMATH has been delayed again. Only slightly. The book is with the printers at the moment and should, fingers crossed, be heading out to readers a week today.
And in other news… a HUGE consignment of paperback copies of the new edition of STRAIGHT TO YOU is currently heading my way. Grab a pre-order from www.infectedbooks.co.uk and get your copy well before the 14 February release date (hopefully by this time next week if you’re in the UK).
Have a great weekend. Check back here tomorrow for a really interesting film recommendation.
AUTUMN: AFTERMATH update is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 30, 2014
What Works For Me – planning
In a post a couple of weeks back I said I’d answer some of the questions I’m asked regularly about writing. Today I want to talk about planning: how much planning I do and how it fits into the overall writing process. But before I start (and I can’t stress this enough) please remember that this is just how I like to do things: not the best way, maybe not the right way, but it’s what works for me.
Planning is something I’ve talked to a lot of other writers about, and it seems everyone has a different way of going about things. Some folks sit down with the barest idea and just start writing, but I know that’s the very worst thing I can do. Staring at an empty screen or a blank piece of paper brings me out in a cold sweat. It induces a kind of uneasy panic and is very rarely productive. Some folks, right at the other end of the spectrum, do a huge amount of planning before starting a project, working out every tiny detail before they write even a single word. They might plan backstories for every character, draw maps of key locations, and so on. I think I’m probably somewhere between these two extremes.
Thinking about it, though, we all must do a similar amount of planning, perhaps just at different stages of the process. We all start with the spark of an idea, with the ultimate aim of turning that idea into a finished story that someone can pick up and read.
I’ll talk about harvesting ideas in my next post (because if I had a quid for every time I get asked where the inspiration for my stories come from, I wouldn’t need to sell any books to pay the bills) so, for the purposes of today, let’s assume you’ve already got your killer idea and you know the general direction you think your story is going to take. So how do you get from that initial idea to a completed story?
I think of the writing process as being similar to sculpting. Bear with me and I’ll explain…
Before I write anything, I spend a lot of time just thinking. My family don’t get it. I don’t think they believe me, actually, when I get out of the bath or come in from a run or from walking the dog and I tell them I’ve been working. But it’s often when I’m distracted (i.e. not looking at that blank screen or empty piece of paper) that inspiration strikes. I don’t tend to write down anything other than a few scribbled notes until I’ve thought about the idea long enough to have developed the broadest of details: the characters, the world, the ‘quest’ and the ending.
This is the point where, for me, the planning work really starts. I sit down and write an outline, which I then re-write, adding more detail. I re-write again and again and again… as many times as I think is necessary, filling in the blanks as best I can until I’ve written a scene-by-scene/chapter-by-chapter breakdown.
For me, the next stage of the process is the hardest and also the most important. It’s the dreaded first draft – the point where planning and writing collide, usually with ugly results. Make no mistake, finishing a first draft can be a long, painful and drawn out experience, and there’s a good chance you’ll end up scrapping much of what you write. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
The first draft is where I really get to grips with the book. It’s where the details of the plot get ironed out. At the risk of sounding really pretentious, it’s where I get to know my characters. Think about it: before this stage, you’ve only talked about the people you’ve created for your story in the broadest terms, but now you’re giving them a voice, describing their appearance, watching them interact with each other, and so on… it’s almost inevitable that things are going to change from what you’d originally planned.
Once the first draft is complete, I print it off and edit it from paper. I make notes directly on the manuscript and I also keep a separate document where I list my bigger concerns as and when they come up – themes or plot points I think need developing, alternate scenes/storylines, etc. Again, this is a good thing. Think about the point I just made about getting to know your characters. It stands to reason you’ll understand them better as you finish the closing chapters of your first draft than you did when you started writing, so there’s a good chance they might have done things early on in your book which might seem out of character or somewhat illogical by the end.
So, once I’ve edited my first draft and my notes are complete (they usually run to about twenty handwritten pages in length, to give you an idea), I start writing again. And again. I’ll rewrite as many times as I think necessary – until I’ve reached the stage where I no longer have any questions about the book. If there are any elements I’m still not sure about, the book’s not finished. Each time I rewrite I think of it as adding a layer of detail, and that’s where my sculpting analogy comes in.
Picture the scene: you’ve had a huge lump of stone delivered, and you need to turn it into a full-size, lifelike sculpture. You wouldn’t start by carving an eye, would you? Or by working on the hair or fingers? That’d be stupid. I’m no sculptor, but I reckon you’d start by carving the basic outline: getting the figure into position and in proportion, carving the general shape of the head, torso and limbs. Next stage: you’d probably refine the work you’d done so far, adding basic facial features, hands and fingers, clothing etc. After that, you’d get closer still… the folds of material, the expression on the face, veins and muscles and so on…
See what I’m getting at? I think it’s exactly the same when you’re writing a book. Start with your lump of stone (i.e. your idea), get the basic shape nailed (your plot outline, characters and locations etc.), add the key features (i.e. write your first draft) then keep chipping away at it, adding layers of detail with each subsequent draft until you’re done.
As I said at the beginning, this is what works for me and it might not necessarily work for you. I had a huge number of aborted attempts when I was trying to write my first book, and those failures were generally down to me not doing enough initial planning. I eventually set myself some ground rules which I stuck to rigidly. I started following these rules on 1st January 1994, and by May that year I’d written STRAIGHT TO YOU.
Know what you’re going to write and do enough planning so you’re comfortable with what comes next.
Write at least a page a day (or a chapter a day or so many words a day… whatever target you think’s appropriate).
Don’t stop until you’ve finished each draft. Resist all temptation to go back and edit a draft until it’s complete.
Don’t force it: if you’re not in the right mood to write, walk away and come back later.
A final suggestion I’ve heard from a number of folk – if you get stuck with a particular part of the story when you’re working on a draft, leave the scene out and come back later. Just annotate your manuscript (i.e. insert major fight scene/plot point etc. here) and carry on.
So that’s how I do it. Hope this helps. Next time – harvesting ideas.
What Works For Me – planning is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 29, 2014
Why I’ve rewritten STRAIGHT TO YOU and what’s changed
My dad recently asked me why I’d rewritten STRAIGHT TO YOU. A perfectly valid question, to which I had two immediate answers…
I still love the story but I hate the original version of the book.
I think I’m a much better writer now than I was twenty years ago.
…but there’s more to it than that.
STRAIGHT TO YOU is the last of my pre-AUTUMN and pre-HATER novels to be brushed down and re-released. You might remember I did the same with TRUST a couple of years back, but STRAIGHT TO YOU is a different kettle of fish altogether. When I re-wrote TRUST I worked, to an extent, from the original manuscript. With STRAIGHT TO YOU, however, I didn’t go anywhere near the 1996 book. In the introduction to the 2014 edition I’ve written that ‘the title, the premise, a couple of scenes and the characters’ names are all that remain from the original,’ and that’s pretty much it. One of the beta-readers who’d read the original described the new book as ‘an impossible sequel’, and I think that’s an interesting way of looking at it.
The biggest thing that’s changed between the two versions of the book is me. As well as having a load of books under my belt, I’m a very different person from the dumb young bugger who started writing STRAIGHT TO YOU back in January 1994. I’m a husband and a dad now, I write for a living, I have bills and responsibilities, I’ve been through some great times and some very shitty times… When I look back at the original version of the book I’m amazed at how naïve it now feels. The characters are as flat and two-dimensional as I was back then, the relationships between them less plausible than the end of the world scenario they’re supposedly living through. I think that’s down to the fact that when I first wrote the book, I hadn’t really lived.
So what can you expect from the new version? Well, this time around, Steven and Sam are far removed from the sickeningly clichéd young, star-crossed lovers of the original. They’ve been around the block a few times. They’re married, and they’ve just lost a baby. They’re not in a good place. They have problems which feel more pressing than the impending end of the world. I’m not giving anything away when I tell you circumstances drive the two of them apart at the worst possible moment, and that the bulk of the book follows Steven’s journey to reach his wife before the very end of everything.
But that journey, for me, is the key reason why I’ve rewritten the book after so long. Steven now has a real purpose to his quest; it’s not just some gallant (and probably misguided) mad dash across the country to spend time with a woman he’s just met. There are tangible consequences to his every move – what he gains with one hand, he loses from the other. To me, STRAIGHT TO YOU now feels more realistic and much more emotional. It feels firmly rooted in the real world. I think it packs a real punch, and I can’t wait for folks to finally get to read it.
So there you go, Dad. There’s your answer.
Why I’ve rewritten STRAIGHT TO YOU and what’s changed is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 21, 2014
STRAIGHT TO YOU – cover reveal and pre-orders open!
Very few words are needed here. Once again I’ve been blown away by the talent of the mighty Craig Paton. Here’s the cover for the new edition of STRAIGHT TO YOU, out on 14 February from Infected Books (pre-order information below).
The book – both paperback and ebooks – will be appearing online at all the usual retailers over the next couple of weeks. You can, however, pre-order signed copies now from Infected Books. Pre-ordered copies will be posted out before the official release date and don’t forget: with any Infected Books title, if you buy the paperback you can claim a free ebook version and, likewise, if you buy the ebook you can claim a discount on the price of a signed paperback. There’s more information here.
Click here to pre-order signed copies of STRAIGHT TO YOU direct from Infected Books.
STRAIGHT TO YOU – cover reveal and pre-orders open! is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 14, 2014
STRAIGHT TO YOU the movie (that wasn’t)
Straight to You will be released a month from today. By now I’m sure you know it’s a complete re-write of my debut novel, so the story has been around a fair while. I wanted to tell you about the time the book almost became a movie…
I was in two minds as to whether or not I should post this, but why not. I’ve removed all the names and other identifying details to protect the innocent (more to protect me, actually), but you’ll still be able to get the gist of this cautionary tale. This is an example of how the corporate entertainment machine can ‘acquire’ ideas. Though it’s probably all just coincidence (he adds quickly for legal reasons).
Given how much information I’ve deliberately missed out, I wasn’t sure how best to tell this story. I decided to use the power of Bitstrips.
It all starts back in 2007. When the film rights to Hater were sold, I suddenly had a lot of people very interested in my books.
I received an email from the production company behind some very famous films. They were asking about Hater initially, but then they started looking at my lesser-known books. As you’d expect, I was really, really excited.
Things got even more exciting… they decided they wanted to option Straight to You.
But it didn’t work out. After some preliminary discussions I was told by my contact that the project didn’t get traction higher up in the company. Oh well, I thought, chalk that one down to experience. You win some, you lose some.
Fast-forward five years, and I start getting emails from a number of folks who’ve read Straight to You, asking if I’ve seen the new apocalyptic comedy romance movie that’s just been released. They say there are some eerie similarities. I watch the film, and I can see what they’re saying… I tell myself it’s just a coincidence (just a series of coincidences, actually), then I notice the film’s made by the folks who wanted to option my book but decided not to.
I talk about this to my agent. He says forget it. He says it’s almost impossible to prove. He says it’d cost me a fortune to pursue a claim, and I probably wouldn’t get anything anyway apart from a massive legal bill. The bottom line: they’re fucking huge, I’m fucking not.
I let it go. Who cares? What can I do about it anyway? I decide I should just be happy my book was good enough to partially inspire (perhaps) a fairly good Hollywood movie. It’s a lesson learned, I tell myself.
Fast-forward again to last summer. I’m in Avilés, Spain, for the Celsius 232 festival, and I’m sitting on a panel with some very respected, much better known authors than me.
We’re talking about how our books have been adapted for film and TV, when one of my fellow authors – mentioning no names, but in my eyes he’s a literary giant – tells a story very similar to mine: a production company wanted to option his book, changed their minds at the last minute, then went on to release a similarly-themed movie which cleaned up at the box office. And it turns out… it’s the exact same production company.
You have to laugh, don’t you?
All’s fair in love and war, but it seems that many people in the film industry will happily rip your head off your shoulders and shit down your neck stump.
Right, it’s nice to have been able to share and to have got that out of my system. Back to the present, and I’ll have more Straight to You news next week. I’ll talk more about the differences between the 1994 and 2014 versions of the book, and I’ll soon be able to reveal the spectacular cover art.
STRAIGHT TO YOU the movie (that wasn’t) is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 9, 2014
What Works For Me
I’ve already said I’m going to be much more visible in 2014, with a lot of original content planned for this site. Today I’d like to introduce a new feature: What Works For Me.
Personally, I think there’s only so much about writing that you can learn from other people. I think it’s something which can’t necessarily be taught. I also happen to think it’s not all about following hard and fast rules: if you can put a series of words and sentences together which have an impact on a reader, then you’re a writer and to hell with grammar and spelling and whatever people say you can or can’t do.
Like many others I speak to, I’m by turn foolishly arrogant and desperately insecure about my writing. I’d love to be a literary giant, but I know I’m not and never will be. I write what I write – I write what I like to read, actually – and, fortunately, enough people seem to like what I do to enable me to scrape a living from it. I try not to lose sight of how important, and how fragile, that is.
I don’t feel at all qualified to be dispensing writing advice but, at the same time, I do get asked a hell of a lot. And that’s what this is all about. I think it makes more sense for me to answer these questions publicly and hopefully discuss my approach with any interested parties, than to keep sending similar emails out to numerous individual folks as and when.
The view from my chair. And yes, the DVD of Autumn is there for a reason. I haven’t watched it for a couple of years. I figured it’s time for a reappraisal. Blog post coming soon…
So, if you’ve got a question about writing or publishing you want my take on, fire away. Want to know how I come up with my characters, why I write the way I do, why I don’t care what caused the Hate in Hater or the infection in Autumn, want to know about the advantages and disadvantages of traditional/self-publishing as I see them, how to set up a small press, the things to look out for when you’re arranging an author event, getting to the end of your first draft, how much you should or shouldn’t plan, why I’ll never tell you what my main characters look like…? Whatever you want to know (within reason!) please ask, and I’ll try and tell you what works for me. (Important disclaimer: it won’t necessarily work for you). Either email me direct, use the contact form, or send a message via Facebook, Goodreads or Twitter.
(Polite note: please don’t ask me to read your book/short story etc. at this time, or ask me what I think of your idea… that’s not what this is about. Much as I’d love to give individual feedback, my commitments mean it’s just not possible right now. I’ve had to say no to a lot of people asking for blurbs recently, and it’s likely to stay that way throughout 2014. Sorry).
What Works For Me is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 7, 2014
Three days to go…
You’re probably sick of hearing me banging on about this by now, but I want to make sure everyone has chance to get hold of the (very) limited edition hardcover of AUTUMN: AFTERMATH which will be released at the end of January.
As I’ve said before, I’m releasing this book primarily for those folks who were collecting the UK hardcover editions from Gollancz and who were left in the lurch when Aftermath was released as paperback only. As such, numbers are going to be very, very limited. I expect to only have somewhere in the region of 150 copies printed.
I’m not planning to make any money from this. In fact, right now I’m looking at making a healthy loss! To try and mitigate my financial pain, I’ve cleared out my shelves and am selling a number of very rare advance uncorrected proofs. These are bare-bones paperback editions of my books which were produced by Thomas Dunne Books ahead of release. Find out more by visiting www.infectedbooks.co.uk or clicking the image immediately below.
And as a New Year treat for 2014, anyone who shops at www.infectedbooks.co.uk this week can help themselves to a 10% discount on their order (even on the rare proofs I just mentioned). Simply quote code ZOMBIE2014 at checkout (original, eh?!).
Three days to go… is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
January 2, 2014
Straight to You
Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the holidays. I’ve a huge amount planned for 2014, lots to get through, so I thought I’d dive in with the first in a series of posts about the re-release of STRAIGHT TO YOU in February. Today I wanted to explain why I’ve re-written the book.
Incredibly, it’s twenty years ago yesterday since I started work on the first draft of the novel. If you’ve read any of the interviews I’ve done over the years, you’ll inevitably have heard me say I’m a frustrated film-maker at heart. When I left school I wanted to make movies, but with no relevant experience or qualifications, and no immediately obvious way of getting any, I ended up working for a high street bank (something which, though I enjoyed aspects of it at the time, I’m less than proud to admit now). I saved up and bought a video camera, but the quality was poor and editing footage was next to impossible, so plans to break into the film business were put on hold. But I was left with a number of stories rattling around inside my head, and I knew I had to do something with them. I tried my hand at writing screenplays before deciding I was better suited to writing more conventional prose. After a number of false starts, I sat down on 1st January 1994 and set myself a few ground-rules for writing. I told myself it was my last chance.
I decided I’d plan the full outline of the story first;
I’d write at least a page a day;
I wouldn’t go back and re-read or edit anything until I’d finished each full draft.
Six months later and I’d written my first novel, STRAIGHT TO YOU. I reluctantly began showing it to people, assuming they’d hate it, and I was relieved (and shocked and surprised, if I’m honest) when they didn’t. In fact, they seemed to actually enjoy it. Then someone got really angry with me because the ending of the book made them cry, and someone else told me you can’t finish a story like that, and another friend said they couldn’t stop thinking about it… and I realised I might actually be onto something.
The original 1996 release of Straight to You
After a relatively brief search, the book found a home with a very small British publisher, and STRAIGHT TO YOU was released in September 1996. You probably know the rest of the story from here… I sat back and naïvely waited for the cheques to come rolling in, but they didn’t. I waited to hear from readers and other publishers, but heard nothing. I checked the shelves of all the bookshops in Birmingham, and found it stocked in only one… The initial print run of just 500 copies failed to sell (and I still have a box left in my garage…). Looking back, it would have been easy to throw in the towel, but I took another option instead. I finished writing AUTUMN and made that book available for free online, and that was probably the single most important decision I’ve taken in my writing career so far.
But STRAIGHT TO YOU wouldn’t go away. People seemed to really respond to the story which, in essence, is very simple: the sun is dying, the end of the world is fast approaching, and our hero is separated from his lover by hundreds of miles – will he reach her before all life on Earth is annihilated?
2005 Infected Books re-release
In 2005 I re-released the novel through Infected Books, though with a number of reasonably successful novels under my belt by that time, I was growing to dislike my debut. Not the story, just the way it was written. Looking back at the original version now I cringe. Twenty years ago I was a single man with no kids and hardly any responsibilities. I also had bugger all writing experience, bugger all life experience, and it showed. The characters were flat and two-dimensional, the dialogue was awful, you couldn’t move for clichés… Perhaps I’m being overly harsh and critical, but I don’t think so. And as time progressed, so my hatred (and that’s not too strong a word) for the original novel continued to grow. But still the story wouldn’t go away…
Fast-forward to 2011, and when I delivered the last AUTUMN and HATER novels to my publishers, I decided to go back and revisit my other Infected Books releases, to try and bring them up to the standards of my subsequent books and give the stories the treatment I thought they deserved. TRUST, as you probably know, was released in July 2012, and AUTUMN: THE HUMAN CONDITION came out last year. That just left STRAIGHT TO YOU, which I rewrote from scratch last summer.
I’m over the moon with the way the book has turned out, and initial feedback has been very positive. I’ll talk in the coming weeks about the inspirations behind the novel, the differences between the original and new versions of the book, and remind me also to tell you about being shafted by Hollywood (because, at one stage, the book was on the verge of being optioned by some very famous folks… and no, I won’t be telling you who, because I can’t afford to sue them and, more to the point, I can’t afford to be sued).
All I’ll say for now is that despite being very, very different, the 2014 version of STRAIGHT TO YOU still retains the same atmosphere of that little book I started writing twenty years ago yesterday. In some ways it feels like an impossible sequel. I guess if I had made it in the movie business, I’d be calling it a reboot or a reimagining. Whatever it is, I can’t wait for people to read it.
Straight to You is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
December 23, 2013
Happy Holidays!
This will be the last post of the year – a very quiet year, but enjoyable nonetheless. All that remains is for me to say thanks to each and every one of you who’ve bought a book, recommended a book, come to an event, sent me an email, joined the Survivors, liked a post, retweeted a tweet and so on… in fact everyone who’s supported me and my writing in any way, shape or form. I don’t say it enough, but it’s all hugely appreciated.
You’ll hear much more from me in 2014, I hope. Announced so far are the Aftermath hardcover (you’ve got until 10 January to get pre-orders in and get your name in the book), Straight to You in February, and the Italian release of Autumn in March.
Until then, I hope you and your loved ones have a very Happy Holiday. Whatever you celebrate, wherever you are, enjoy yourselves and here’s to a magnificent 2014!
Happy Holidays! is a post from: David Moody - author of TRUST and the HATER and AUTUMN books
