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Two good things are happening at once this weekend. First off, I’m pleased to say that the penultimate episode of Primeval, written by your truly, will be showing on ITV1 on Saturday evening. It’s got a Columbian Mammoth on a motorway, and that’s just the starting point for a lot of twists and turns concerning the series’ ongoing plot threads this year, all leading into Adrian Hodges’ action-packed season conclusion next week. Do give it a glance.

But while that’s on, we’re going to be in Los Angeles for the Gallifrey One convention. Galley is always a high point of the year, a time when British writers can relax in unaccustomed levels of sunshine and get to see each other socially, as well as appearing on too many panels and meeting loads of Doctor Who fans. And this year it seems it will be loads, with early take-up far higher than in previous years. At the end of the 2007 event, I found myself so thoroughly socialised that I was unable to talk any more. I can’t speak for my fellow writers, but personally I’m there to hang out with folk: if I’m in a convention bar I’m at work and happy to talk with all comers, so don’t be shy, come on over. And do say you read the blog! (We’ve got a couple of nice dinners with local professionals lined up this time too, so all in all… phew, that’ll be nice.)

So I’m trying to clear my workload ready for a few welcome days off. In the meantime, I’ve just done a quick interview with Joe Gordon, over at the Forbidden Planet blog, about current projects…

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=6460

And, for those of you of a writerly inclination, I’ve just had an interview put up at the BBC Writer’s Room site, where I go on about the craft a bit…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/paul_cornell.shtml

And I have my panel schedule for Orbital, this year’s Eastercon, near Heathrow:

The Hovercraft of Disbelief . Friday 14:00.
The Doctor - Saviour or Trickster God? Saturday 12:00.
Comics as Collaboration. Sunday 20:00
Martha Jones - Most heroic companion of them all? Sunday 23:00
Sex and the Singularity. Monday 12:00

Since I am carefully pacing my forty days of not consuming alcohol for Lent this year, my views on Martha, who I adore anyway, may, at 11pm, be somewhat forthright. No, I can’t remember what the hovercraft of disbelief is. And my opinions on ‘the singularity’ I managed to sum up in Yokohama in one very terse word. Hopefully I may be able to string that out into at least a sentence this time.

Anyhow, I hope to see quite a few of you quite shortly, so until then, Cheerio!

I’m very proud to say that the excellent website Comics Nexus has voted my Marvel Comics series Wisdom as the runner-up, in the category of Best Limited Series, in their yearly awards. Entertainingly, these guys run a full awards ceremony, where creators and characters show up to accept the statuettes. So Pete Wisdom and I went along.

http://comicsnexus.insidepulse.com/articles/73445/2008/02/01/the-comics-nexus-awards-2007--day-4-best-title.html

Although I do wonder whether I should have left him at home… Cheerio!