An update four years in the making
Has it really been over four years? It has. A few things have happened since then.
1) "Murder at the Veterans' Club" was published in 2018 as "A Gentleman's Murder". Editing and rewriting and polishing it up into something publishable meant adding 30,000 words, dropping four characters (including the original murderer!) and removing one sub-plot. I'm pretty pleased with it. A German translation came out in 2019. We're now working on developing it for television, which is all about discovering things that I wish I'd thought to put into book. Yeah, expect the adaptation to delve a bit deeper into the various characters and why they are who they are.
2) I have a second book in the works. The working title was "Cat's Paw", which is an absolutely horrible title. I don't know what I was thinking when I first wrote that down. Doing a Google search for it will maybe get you an explanation for the idiom, and then a cascade of cat pictures. The last draft I submitted to Inkshares is titled "By Unnatural Selection" instead even if the filename itself is "Cat's Paw v3". Maybe "Death By Unnatural Selection"? We'll see. Last I heard, they're looking at publication in the Fall and, much as I feel like this is running super late already, I can't help feeling like there's still a ton of rewriting work to be done before going to copy-edit.
3) I moved back to Calgary to be with Mom in mid-2019, and then Covid19 put the world into lockdown. I have not cut my hair since March 2020 at least -- possibly even since January 2020, but March was when staying home actually became a thing. Not counting the days when I had to shovel snow from the front walk, I've left the house six times since then: three times to see a dentist or dental surgeon, these visits culminating in the extraction of a molar; twice to pick up an order from Bureau En -- er, I mean, Staples; and once when Mom's dog came down with an acute kidney failure and had to be put down.
That's the important stuff, I guess. More as and when it becomes relevant. I started a blog on Wordpress back when, uh, I stopped posting here, but I think that's going to be more of a "public face for this author" kind of thing. I don't know. Sometimes I just need to write stuff down and put it where people may or may not see it, and often I don't because I have total strangers reading me now and good lord what would they think?
1) "Murder at the Veterans' Club" was published in 2018 as "A Gentleman's Murder". Editing and rewriting and polishing it up into something publishable meant adding 30,000 words, dropping four characters (including the original murderer!) and removing one sub-plot. I'm pretty pleased with it. A German translation came out in 2019. We're now working on developing it for television, which is all about discovering things that I wish I'd thought to put into book. Yeah, expect the adaptation to delve a bit deeper into the various characters and why they are who they are.
2) I have a second book in the works. The working title was "Cat's Paw", which is an absolutely horrible title. I don't know what I was thinking when I first wrote that down. Doing a Google search for it will maybe get you an explanation for the idiom, and then a cascade of cat pictures. The last draft I submitted to Inkshares is titled "By Unnatural Selection" instead even if the filename itself is "Cat's Paw v3". Maybe "Death By Unnatural Selection"? We'll see. Last I heard, they're looking at publication in the Fall and, much as I feel like this is running super late already, I can't help feeling like there's still a ton of rewriting work to be done before going to copy-edit.
3) I moved back to Calgary to be with Mom in mid-2019, and then Covid19 put the world into lockdown. I have not cut my hair since March 2020 at least -- possibly even since January 2020, but March was when staying home actually became a thing. Not counting the days when I had to shovel snow from the front walk, I've left the house six times since then: three times to see a dentist or dental surgeon, these visits culminating in the extraction of a molar; twice to pick up an order from Bureau En -- er, I mean, Staples; and once when Mom's dog came down with an acute kidney failure and had to be put down.
That's the important stuff, I guess. More as and when it becomes relevant. I started a blog on Wordpress back when, uh, I stopped posting here, but I think that's going to be more of a "public face for this author" kind of thing. I don't know. Sometimes I just need to write stuff down and put it where people may or may not see it, and often I don't because I have total strangers reading me now and good lord what would they think?