Dear Fans (especially all message board members),

I hope you are all happy and well and that 2010 has kicked off to a super start for you all.
I have never felt better and feel that this is going to be a very special year.
London is cloudy but my heart feels full of sunlight.
I am currently preparing for a new project which is unbelievably groovy.
TOP SECRET at present but more will be revealed…
You guys will be the first to know.

Love and laughter,
Sophia x

ps: I loved talking to some of you on the radio show.

Here are some recommendations of great music and books (in my opinion).

Music

Snow Patrol – Up To Now
Newton Faulkner – Hand Built By Robots
Phoenix – Alphabetical
Passion Pit – Manners
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Once

Books

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Anam Cara by John O’Donohue
A Woman’s Worth by Marianne Williamson

Many thanks Natalie for this information. As you may know a 21 year old Sophia Myles starred in an episode of long-running UK TV-Series ‘Heartbeat‘ in the Christmas episode No Hiding Place back in 2001. Thanks to Dawn we have screencaptures and clips in the gallery but you might want to see this episode as a whole for yourself! If you live in the UK, here’s your chance:

UK residents will later be able to watch the episode online via ITV Player.

As an upgrade of the existing podcast feature I’m very proud to say that thanks to the wonders of technology Absolutely Sophia Myles has its own radio station now. It’s called In Sync With Sophia. And now the most fabulous news: Sophia Myles has agreed to come on the show as our very first – and of course extra special – guest as a Christmas treat for the Absolutely Sophia Myles members! This took place earlier tonight and you can listen to it now! I edited it slightly to cut out the times when we unsuccessfully tried to bring people on the air.

• Live version on BlogTalkRadio

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments on the new layout! Luna and I really appreciated it. Speaking of which, Sophia Myles has sent a message to the website:

The new layout is beautiful Mia. My thanks to you and to the fantastic fans for giving life to such a wonderful site. Love Sophia

Thank you. How exciting! And to showcase how much life you guys are giving to the site I added some more fanart.

117 Icons – by Maike
008 Icons – by Luna
001 Banner, by Chrissy
001 Fanart, by moviefnatic
003 Wallpaper (1024 x 768), by Natalie
001 Wallpaper (1280 x 1024), by Chrissy

How time flies! It seems like yesterday that Absolutely Sophia Myles had been celebrating being online for half a decade and already another year’s passed. For the occasion I finished coding a new layout for the website.

A while ago members of the messageboard had the opportunity to create a layout for the site. In the end only one was submitted – but what a gorgeous layout this is! Luna designed the graphics – many thanks! – which in turn highly influenced my coding. I’ve been going over everything so I think it should all work – but please let me know if you encounter any problems.

What else is new? In the sidebar I replaced the random quotes by Sophia Myles with new orginal ones. Enjoy!

It was also time to change the poll question. Since January 2, 2009, 766 of the site’s visitors have answered the question ‘What’s your favourite character?‘. The result was overwhelmingly clear: 515 people (or 67%) chose Beth Turner from ‘Moonlight‘. The other top choices were Isolde (‘Tristan & Isolde‘) with 18% and Reinette (‘Doctor Who‘) with 9%. But only 1% or 10 people prefer the character of Kate Breck in ‘Hallam Foe‘ to all others. See all results here. As of now there’s a new poll open for voting in the sidebar: What kind of movie would you like to see Sophia in next?

A bit late but here’s the calendar for November 2009 – created by Maike:

Messageboard member Chrissy has made lovely new icons of one of my favourite performances of Sophia’s: in ‘Marple: Sleeping Murder‘. Enjoy!

The following are all uniqe pieces of fanart so DO NOT post them at another site etc. They’re strictly limited to personal use. Thank you!

026 Icons – by Chrissy

I finally went “Fanart hunting” in our messageboard and added all the lovely work that has been created since mid-December 2008 to our official photo & icon archive. A huge thank you to all the artists for sharing them with us!

The following are all uniqe pieces of fanart so DO NOT post them at another site etc. They’re strictly limited to personal use. Thank you!

038 Icons – by Chrissy
013 Icons – by Maike
006 Icons – by Mandi
071 Icons – by Natalie
017 Fanart & Wallpaper > Banner, by Maike, Natalie
001 Fanart & Wallpaper > Calendar, September 2009 by Maike
004 Fanart & Wallpaper > Drawings, by Maike
006 Fanart & Wallpaper > Fanart, by Maike, Chrissy, Luna, Natalie
004 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (1280 x 1024), by Natalie
016 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (1024 x 768), by Maike, moviefnatic, Rachel, Mandi
012 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (800 x 600), by Maike, Luna

With Twitter having become the fashionable thing these days it’s of course natural that fans should be wondering whether or not Sophia Myles does have her own account – especially in view of there being one in her name. However, we’ve received official information last week that any such accounts are fake and that Sophia Myles is NOT on Twitter.

However ‘Absolutely Sophia Myles‘ can be found on Twitter as absolutely_soph. Feel free to follow us to stay informed about all things Sophia!

Our messageboard member Chrissy – who’s currently house-bound – spotted an ad on TV saying that ‘Moonlight‘ is soon airing on freeview channel Virgin 1. A little internet digging revealed that the first episode airs on August 10, 9pm and then the series will air regularly Mondays at 9pm on Virgin 1 (source). This is great news for all of you who don’t have Sky, and therefore couldn’t watch ‘Moonlight‘ on Living last year!

Thanks again Chrissy – and get better soon!