Emerging from limbo (book and otherwise)
Wow. So, the last draft I started popped in from June. My poor neglected LiveJournal. *pets* I'm going to copy over my blog entries from my official site (two so far), so this page won't be quite so lonely.
We're finally almost out of book limbo. Because of various delays and other fun stuff, it's been more than four months since I bid farewell to the Namesake files and left them in the hands of the printer. Soon enough, they're going to land on my doorstep, and from there, they'll head to a new home.
Namesake has grown big enough to the point where we most likely won't have one or two but possibly five meet-ups for people to pick up their books. There's actually quite a few in the Harrisburg area, which surprised and pleased me. There's interest in a Baltimore-area meet-up, and someone has sent in their wish to know about a New York one. It's my hope something can be arranged in Montreal and Toronto, since I will be visiting Canada (including a trip to see secondlina) in a couple of weeks.
It has been a busy couple of months. I worked. I wrote a lot. A lot of my writing in September centered around the release of the iPhone 5s and 5c, along with iOS 7.
Isa and I completed book 3 of Namesake online. The first proper page of book 4 went online last Thursday, and that was a thrill. We had a long online pow-wow a few weeks ago and sketched out where we wanted to go in book 4, then broke it down by chapter. I delivered the first draft of Chapter 16 script to Isa on Thursday, and she began to sketch out pages. I also need to finish lettering the latest Intermission.
It's going to be a busy October. ickaimp is arriving this weekend to help with the Namesake books when they arrive -- estimated to be next week. Fingers crossed! Then, I'm taking the above-mentioned Canada trip. First stop is to Trenton to see gidget_zb. Then we are going to invade a movie theater and see the Kenneth Branagh/Alex Kingston version of Macbeth.
Photo credit: NT Live / Manchester International Festival
To say I'm excited about this is a gross understatement. I became a big fan of Alex Kingston's work thanks to Doctor Who, and friends introduced me to her previous work -- I have an immense love now for Moll Flanders and Upstairs, Downstairs. Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth just speaks for itself.
The plans to see the NT Live version of the performance were well underway when the announcement came that the same performance would be staged in New York City in June 2014. Yes, I plan to be there. I joined the membership of the Park Avenue Armory to be able to signup for the pre-sales, but the venue itself is just fascinating. I'm glad to see my money go to a wonderful institution like this. The last time I was in New York City, I dropped by the venue to check it out. It is a gorgeous building in a lovely part of Manhattan, well off Broadway. It's not far from the Central Park Zoo.
After the visit with Charina, I'm heading to Montreal to visit with Isa for a few days. We just completed a mini comic for a soon-to-be announced Kickstarter project, and we've submitted our application for the 2014 TCAF. We are going to produce another mini comic for it, and we plan to get most of the legwork for that done during my visit. We're hoping to get all the Canadian Kickstarter books in the mail as well. Then, I'll head home to complete the Kickstarter here.
For now, it's past time I got some sleep. I have an office to clean in the morning!
We're finally almost out of book limbo. Because of various delays and other fun stuff, it's been more than four months since I bid farewell to the Namesake files and left them in the hands of the printer. Soon enough, they're going to land on my doorstep, and from there, they'll head to a new home.
Namesake has grown big enough to the point where we most likely won't have one or two but possibly five meet-ups for people to pick up their books. There's actually quite a few in the Harrisburg area, which surprised and pleased me. There's interest in a Baltimore-area meet-up, and someone has sent in their wish to know about a New York one. It's my hope something can be arranged in Montreal and Toronto, since I will be visiting Canada (including a trip to see secondlina) in a couple of weeks.
It has been a busy couple of months. I worked. I wrote a lot. A lot of my writing in September centered around the release of the iPhone 5s and 5c, along with iOS 7.
Isa and I completed book 3 of Namesake online. The first proper page of book 4 went online last Thursday, and that was a thrill. We had a long online pow-wow a few weeks ago and sketched out where we wanted to go in book 4, then broke it down by chapter. I delivered the first draft of Chapter 16 script to Isa on Thursday, and she began to sketch out pages. I also need to finish lettering the latest Intermission.
It's going to be a busy October. ickaimp is arriving this weekend to help with the Namesake books when they arrive -- estimated to be next week. Fingers crossed! Then, I'm taking the above-mentioned Canada trip. First stop is to Trenton to see gidget_zb. Then we are going to invade a movie theater and see the Kenneth Branagh/Alex Kingston version of Macbeth.
Photo credit: NT Live / Manchester International Festival
To say I'm excited about this is a gross understatement. I became a big fan of Alex Kingston's work thanks to Doctor Who, and friends introduced me to her previous work -- I have an immense love now for Moll Flanders and Upstairs, Downstairs. Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth just speaks for itself.
The plans to see the NT Live version of the performance were well underway when the announcement came that the same performance would be staged in New York City in June 2014. Yes, I plan to be there. I joined the membership of the Park Avenue Armory to be able to signup for the pre-sales, but the venue itself is just fascinating. I'm glad to see my money go to a wonderful institution like this. The last time I was in New York City, I dropped by the venue to check it out. It is a gorgeous building in a lovely part of Manhattan, well off Broadway. It's not far from the Central Park Zoo.
After the visit with Charina, I'm heading to Montreal to visit with Isa for a few days. We just completed a mini comic for a soon-to-be announced Kickstarter project, and we've submitted our application for the 2014 TCAF. We are going to produce another mini comic for it, and we plan to get most of the legwork for that done during my visit. We're hoping to get all the Canadian Kickstarter books in the mail as well. Then, I'll head home to complete the Kickstarter here.
For now, it's past time I got some sleep. I have an office to clean in the morning!