[personal] Updatery of various kinds
In no particular order...
I'm off to Seattle shortly this morning for a Day Jobbe trade show. Somewhat unusually for me, I'll be taking the train from Portland northward. Thursday I fly from SEA to Columbus, OH, for a day of meetings on Friday. Back home Saturday morning. So three travel days this week, and what look to be two twelve-hour work days as well as one more (hopefully) normal work day. Oh, the glamor. There is, however, the Open Dinner in Columbus, OH Friday night. [ LiveJournal ] Watch this space, though. If my meetings run short, I might try to catch a late flight home Friday and cancel dinner accordingly.
On the plus side, I'm (probably) one writing session away from finishing the first draft of Their Currents Turn Awry, Sunspin volume two. At that point, it will go into the drawer for a while, likely until the fall.
My next effort in sequence is to process agent feedback on the book proposal for Going to Extremes, though I'll take a few days off for a brain break, not to mention dealing with the forthcoming crazy week, before picking that up. I'm ahead of schedule in terms of my production calendar. This is nice. June is set aside for short fiction and miscellaneous projects, so if you're looking for something from me, now would be a nice time to remind me. I do track that stuff, but sometimes projects slip through the cracks.
Yesterday, the_child and I (and a friend of hers) went to see The Avengers [ imdb ]. As my (step)mother commented, "But no Emma Peel!"
For reals, it was an awesome movie. So awesome I don't really have a review. The film bypassed my critical brain and inserted raw entertainment. Not a lot of books or movies can do that to me anymore. If you're any kind of a fan of action movies, this one is a real winner.
I think I was most impressed by the dialog, which was often extremely apropos, rather witty and sometimes inducing of swoon in my otherwise silent-at-that-point writer brain. Which given this was co-written and directed by Joss Whedon should be unsurprising. I will also comment that you don't have to be particularly familiar with Marvel comics or the recent spate of Marvel-based superhero movies that serve as prequels to this film, though it would help if you were. I'm sure I missed a bunch of in-jokes, but the ones I caught were enough.
So, yeah, things go boom with witty banter. Though for my money the best line in the whole movie is Harry Dean Stanton's cameo security guard talking to Incredible Hulk Bruce Banner. "You got a condition, son."
Ok, maybe that was a review.
Off to be busy. Posting may be more irregular than usual for a travel week due to the odd schedule.
I'm off to Seattle shortly this morning for a Day Jobbe trade show. Somewhat unusually for me, I'll be taking the train from Portland northward. Thursday I fly from SEA to Columbus, OH, for a day of meetings on Friday. Back home Saturday morning. So three travel days this week, and what look to be two twelve-hour work days as well as one more (hopefully) normal work day. Oh, the glamor. There is, however, the Open Dinner in Columbus, OH Friday night. [ LiveJournal ] Watch this space, though. If my meetings run short, I might try to catch a late flight home Friday and cancel dinner accordingly.
On the plus side, I'm (probably) one writing session away from finishing the first draft of Their Currents Turn Awry, Sunspin volume two. At that point, it will go into the drawer for a while, likely until the fall.
My next effort in sequence is to process agent feedback on the book proposal for Going to Extremes, though I'll take a few days off for a brain break, not to mention dealing with the forthcoming crazy week, before picking that up. I'm ahead of schedule in terms of my production calendar. This is nice. June is set aside for short fiction and miscellaneous projects, so if you're looking for something from me, now would be a nice time to remind me. I do track that stuff, but sometimes projects slip through the cracks.
Yesterday, the_child and I (and a friend of hers) went to see The Avengers [ imdb ]. As my (step)mother commented, "But no Emma Peel!"
For reals, it was an awesome movie. So awesome I don't really have a review. The film bypassed my critical brain and inserted raw entertainment. Not a lot of books or movies can do that to me anymore. If you're any kind of a fan of action movies, this one is a real winner.
I think I was most impressed by the dialog, which was often extremely apropos, rather witty and sometimes inducing of swoon in my otherwise silent-at-that-point writer brain. Which given this was co-written and directed by Joss Whedon should be unsurprising. I will also comment that you don't have to be particularly familiar with Marvel comics or the recent spate of Marvel-based superhero movies that serve as prequels to this film, though it would help if you were. I'm sure I missed a bunch of in-jokes, but the ones I caught were enough.
So, yeah, things go boom with witty banter. Though for my money the best line in the whole movie is Harry Dean Stanton's cameo security guard talking to Incredible Hulk Bruce Banner. "You got a condition, son."
Ok, maybe that was a review.
Off to be busy. Posting may be more irregular than usual for a travel week due to the odd schedule.