On his Bad Signal email list, Warren Ellis reflects on the previous year and discusses what to expect from him in 2007:

End of the year show: taking stock of 2006 and looking ahead. In 14 months I will be 40 years old. At 20, no-one expected me to make it to 30, and here I am looking at 40.

2006 was a full-tilt year. Finished a novel, wrote a tv pilot and a videogame, sold another novel, sold out of every issue of FELL at least once, sold out of the first NEXTWAVE and completed that as a 12-issue series, sold out of the first NEWUNIVERSAL, wrote what felt like a ton of comics.

Next year’s an important year for me. I have an absolute ton of new projects on the slate. With, I think, two exceptions, they’re all original projects. I just need to summon up one more sustained burst of energy.

By summer, I will have finished LISTENER, and CROOKED LITTLE VEIN will be out. Everyone is telling me that everything will change for me when VEIN comes out. VEIN will be released a little before San Diego, roughly around the time that IGNITION CITY launches. Millar reckons IGNITION is the best thing I’ve written in the last 5 years. This time next year I’ll either be looking back at an incredibly successful year, or an absolute disaster zone: I doubt there’ll be a middle distance. Start saving your money for VEIN, please. (I got a shot of its page in the William Morrow catalogue the other day, and was surprised to find a very kind quote from Neil
Gaiman atop it. Wherever you are, Neil, thank you.)

Forgot: there’s another big comics project set for the summer. The last of the three bets William at Avatar made me. This one just about killed me. It’s also one of the few purebred “high concept” ideas I’ve ever had.

More Red Bull, nurse.

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