Which is to say that while I got good work done this week I’m suffering the perennial frustration of large projects: I want them finished.
I started the final final proofing of Southern Discomfort in the form of a sample paperback printed by Amazon. Now whatever changes I make are the final ones. I’m getting great help from Maggie Prestwood in my writing group who agreed to give it one final beta-read. She pointed out some problems, several of which had occurred to me only I’d decided nah, not really so bad. This is why second opinions are good. I did not, however, get anywhere near as far as I’d have liked, maybe 40 pages into the paperback. Assuming I get my cover design on time, my schedule is still on track.
I don’t expect to finish Jekyll and Hyde any time soon so I don’t worry quite as much. And I did get good work done this week, including watching Stan Laurel in a silent parody of John Barrymore’s Hyde (above).
I got two articles in for The Local Reporter, one on the resurrection of popular local restaurant The Mediterranean Deli after a fire, a second on Chapel Hill’s new economic development director. I also got in three Atomic Junk Shop posts. One on DC’s second horror anthology of the late 1960s, The Witching Hour —
— one about the Charlton comic Career Girl Romances —
— and one on Justice League of America #61.
I also found time to get all my various tasks and errands done.
Go me.
#SFWApro. Covers by Nick Cardy (t) and Sal Gentile, all rights to images remain with current holders.
