End of Summer Roundup
Technically end of summer, but here in SoCal the hottest and most punishing weeks of summer are yet to come--some years the withering, dry Santa Anas blow two weeks, other years two or three months. But everyone is going back to school, so we call it end of summer.
so what did you do this summer, and what did you read? I worked extremely hard on a bunch of stuff--the Coyote Wild YA issue should come out in the next few days, I hope, though the top editor has been working huge numbers of hours overtime. May be late. That was fun, though lots of reading online, which is a challenge on this old terminal.
I've been working really hard on projects: the last Inda book (part one finally hammered into shape--I think--just in time for the editor to ask for the official title, a description to go into the catalog, and cover ideas), CJ's second volume, and I'm hoping to win some time to get typing done on the projects to close the gap. It's maddening that I've got the messiest stories to type up. The easiest ones are all done.
I've been reading a ton of vampire stuff to get my head around vampires enough for this short story I was challenged to do for Lace and Blade II. It's basically Jane Austen versus Dracula. I'm fighting with that one every day--I think I have thirteen books sitting around at various pages for reference, from Austen's own work (especially her letters) to Charles Clairmont's letters to Mary Wortley Montague's to Dracula, and a bunch of other stuff as well. All for a short story! Due soon! I hope I can bring this one off.
My Hollywood stuff has been lots of labor for tiny drips of promise--as usual. But one children's show just got kicked upstairs at Cartoon Network. We've been here before (with Disney, 18 months ago) so I don't get my hopes up. But it would be really, really nice to make some actual money, since I'm heading into my second year without a job, and we have been piling all the disasters on the credit cards. Enough of that, everybody else is in the same sinking boat! My little bits of money are going to go into getting good paper and inks--as soon as I finish the short story, it's drawing maps time. I am going to look into getting prints made, especially of the Remalna one, in case people are interested. I don't know how much that will cost, though.
Okay, enough egoblatt--how about everybody else?
so what did you do this summer, and what did you read? I worked extremely hard on a bunch of stuff--the Coyote Wild YA issue should come out in the next few days, I hope, though the top editor has been working huge numbers of hours overtime. May be late. That was fun, though lots of reading online, which is a challenge on this old terminal.
I've been working really hard on projects: the last Inda book (part one finally hammered into shape--I think--just in time for the editor to ask for the official title, a description to go into the catalog, and cover ideas), CJ's second volume, and I'm hoping to win some time to get typing done on the projects to close the gap. It's maddening that I've got the messiest stories to type up. The easiest ones are all done.
I've been reading a ton of vampire stuff to get my head around vampires enough for this short story I was challenged to do for Lace and Blade II. It's basically Jane Austen versus Dracula. I'm fighting with that one every day--I think I have thirteen books sitting around at various pages for reference, from Austen's own work (especially her letters) to Charles Clairmont's letters to Mary Wortley Montague's to Dracula, and a bunch of other stuff as well. All for a short story! Due soon! I hope I can bring this one off.
My Hollywood stuff has been lots of labor for tiny drips of promise--as usual. But one children's show just got kicked upstairs at Cartoon Network. We've been here before (with Disney, 18 months ago) so I don't get my hopes up. But it would be really, really nice to make some actual money, since I'm heading into my second year without a job, and we have been piling all the disasters on the credit cards. Enough of that, everybody else is in the same sinking boat! My little bits of money are going to go into getting good paper and inks--as soon as I finish the short story, it's drawing maps time. I am going to look into getting prints made, especially of the Remalna one, in case people are interested. I don't know how much that will cost, though.
Okay, enough egoblatt--how about everybody else?