I feel so tired. And I don't know why.

I've just spent quite a long while trying out ideas for a website. It's for the new Friars Baptist Church. My brain's beginning to melt. I thought it was time to stop because I couldn't figure out why something wasn't working. I had a space between two pictures that I'm sure wasn't there to start with. So somewhere I must have missed out a chevron or speechmark and thrown it all out. I hate it when that happens... I could have said I wouldn't do it (it's not like I go to that church), but I'll probably be bombarded with e-mails from a certain someone unless I do it. :-)

I read something rather terrible in the business section of the Daily Express this afternoon. Apparently the fifth Harry Potter book, The Order of the Phoenix, probably won't be out until next year. It seems that the UK publisher, Bloomsbury, haven't included sales of a fifth book in their yearly budget. I'm not sure when that goes up to. I think they said September. J K Rowling hasn't even given them a manuscript yet. I want to know what happens...

To begin with I was sceptical about the whole Harry Potter thing. I mean, how could it possibly be as good as everyone says? I even read the first book and decided I couldn't see what all the fuss was about. But for some reason, I decided to spend my Christmas money on the other three books. And wow, they get more and more exciting. And out of the four, the only one that has a cliffhanger type ending is The Goblet of Fire. And it's taking her ages to write the next book! Aargh.

And any Christian organisations that say it's wrong, I would like to say two words to you. Philip Pullman. Another children's author that's had loads of people saying his stuff's great. And I don't get it. I read the Dark Materials trilogy, but I didn't enjoy it much. The first book was the best, IMHO. Anyway, totally blasphemous. He's basically made God the bad guy. How can so many people say Harry Potter's bad (when it's clearly a good strong moral tale of good against evil) when there are bestselling authors like Philip Pullman? Honestly. I don't think most of the complainers have even read the books.

The amusing thing about this, if it's true that the book won't be coming out, is that Waterstones, our arch enemy, has been trying to get people to preorder it. I expect it's worked, too, since so many people ask about the thing. But if it's not coming out until next year... ha! Ha ha ha.

Mwahahahhaa.

Ahem.

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:12 PM