I’m still horrified about the shell-shock of last week’s election results. However stuff has to get written and I’m the one who writes it, so back to work this week. But definitely not peak performance. It happens.
Most of the time I wound up watching Jerry Lewis’ 1963 The Nutty Professor, the commentary track, and then the Eddie Murphy remake and its sequel. I keep forgetting it takes longer than the running time: I have to pause it while I write notes, pause it some more while I write down the credits, stop if I get up for tea or whatever … so that took quite a while.
I got 50 pages into my final final absolutely final edit of Southern Discomfort. This is now the priority for the rest of the month; I can’t release it yet because I still have to get my cover art but I want the work finished. And it will be.
I spent way more time than planned on Ceaseless Way. As noted this morning, we’ve settled on Black Friday for the release date. Trouble is, all sorts of last minute technical problems cropped up when I ran it through the Draft 2 Digital and Amazon KDP systems for publishing it. Nothing fatal (I don’t think so) but struggling to work it through took time. Plus there’s a bunch of questions I have for our next Zoom meeting Sunday. Then I’ll have to spend more time Monday putting everything into finished form. I’m looking forward to seeing it out but as I’ve said before, it’s been way more work than I wanted it to be.
I didn’t get anything in for The Local Reporter — all my story queries to various people fell on deaf ears — but at the Atomic Junk Shop website I wrote about the changes and reboots of 1969 such as the price hike from 12 to 15 cents.
I also wrote about changes in the Bat-books. Wilder changes are coming. I’ll be blogging about them soon.
All rights to images remain with current owners. Ceaseless Way cover by GetComics, based on concepts by Arden Brooks.
