From: WarrenE@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 14, 2003  7:01:38  AM US/Pacific
To: badsignal@lists.flirble.org
Subject: BAD SIGNAL: The Hell With It

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WARREN ELLIS

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I'm eight chapters into Cory Doctorow's
new novel and I want to drink his blood.

EASTERN STANDARD TRIBE is
published in November.  Cory emailed
it over last night for me to read and
provide a cover blurb.  Here I am
still slowly building something called
STEALTH TRIBES and Cory sends
something called EASTERN STANDARD
TRIBE.  You can imagine how happy
I was.  So far, the book is striking
minors off the same chords as
STEALTH TRIBES.  Plus, it's really
bloody well-written.  Me kill Cory
Doctorow now.

I'll write a nice blurb for his book first,
though.  It can be the doomed bastard's
epitaph.  I'll send a squad of finely-
trained San Francisco Death Pervert
Girls into his warehouse home, and
they will wear his dangly bits as
grisly murder trophies.

And that's two novels Cory's banged
out in a year.  There's this brilliant
little idea in EST I'll share.  Repurposed
heavy water from reactors used to
make coffee that never gets cold.
It's called Coffium.  Bastard.

Idly batting emails around with a DC
editor who's offering a shot at
creating a new book there from
scratch.   But I think that, in terms
of the general audience that DC
Universe books reach, I'd be largely
talking to myself.   If I didn't have
tax time coming up, I'd use the TV
Thing money to take two months off
and write a novel, give Cory a run
for his money.  Time was, I'd sink
ideas for novels into comics -- the
money I've been offered for books
in the past has been very low, for
a bunch of obvious reasons -- but,
right now, who's interested in ideas
for commercial comics that don't
feature forty-year-old characters?

I got asked to write a graphic album
for Europe the other day.

The hell with it.

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