Are you ready for some randomcity?

Finally, my beautiful and perfect little goddaughter's first ever movie role is available on DVD. The Lifetime movie Five comes out on October 2 (tomorrow as of this writing). Be sure to get your order in now. She plays Jeanne Tripplehorn's daughter in the last segment, "Pearl." Alan Rusk plays her on-screen dad. It is quite lovely and touching and worth your time.

And Talyan will also reprise her role as Ava on this Thursday's Two and a Half Men episode, "Doggy Disaster." Don't miss it.

The first draft to my current project, The Harvester of Faces, is coming along pretty well. We'll see where it winds up--I'm still enthusiastic about it, and the ideas keep coming. I hope to be done with the first draft by just before Thanksgiving.

I'm telling this story in the first person--I've done that before (my story "Cabin Fever" was told in the first person POV) but in this case the narrator is female. Which is a little weird for me--I've never done this before.

But I love first person POV, for a number of reasons. Chief among them, the sublties you can work in--a character can reveal innate prejuidicies, biases, and blind spots that the reader will pick up on immediately but the narrator is totally oblivious to.

For an excellent example of what I'm talking about read any of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories. Bertie Wooster--the narrator---comes across as an amiable nitwit (Isaac Asimov's wonderful term for him). You can tell that he's a really decent guy and, if you knew him personally, you'd be really fond of him, But he's also not particularly bright, easy to take advantage of, and, to his manservant Jeeves's everlasting horror, has an abysmal fashion sense. You will also howl with laughter. Wodehouse was a rare and wondrous writer--he was consistently and deeply funny. Or check out the BBC Series based on the stories. As an added bonus you'll get to see pre-House Hugh Laurie as Bertie, and his comedy partner, the wonderful Stephen Fry, as Jeeves.

Anyway, that's why I like first person POV. Check out Roger Zelazny's The Great Book of Amber for more examples and  a rip-roaring good read.

Hopefully you'll be able to recommend my current project as another example, one of these days.