Post 34

Happy Friday, my darlings.

I bear greetings from your single friends this fine Valentines, on the off-chance that any of you, Dear Readers, are blessed enough to be part of a satisfying intimate relationship. Godspeed to you. Le deceo muchissimo exito.

All books are now published on Amazon and I am finishing up the first COMPLETE draft of Iron Road. It still needs around 80 (?) ish pages to wrap up the story line, but I’ve got it reasonably mapped out and it’s less of a hopeless cause than it was at the beginning of this week. I will post the revised story for our Reader’s entertainment as I progress through the publishing process, but I expect to have the final version out into the world very soon.

I’ve decided that it should be a sequel to Errata and I’m calling the new series, Sensitives. I think there may be a third one in there as well, depending on how the middle-end of this one goes. I do tend to like it when everyone dies…

I’m not sure what that says about me as an author. Ah well.

I have been on more of a visual media kick lately and haven’t been reading as much as I usually do. I think it’s because I’ve started taking night classes for emergency medicine and have been doing so much of my own writing/revisions. It always takes a ton of effort to come back to the real world from either one of these activities. I am still continuing with my long-distance running/biking. I seem to be making 10-12 mi runs two to three times a week and 20-50 miles of biking two to three times a week, so I’m still reasonably sane. And the new flesh-frame is holding up admirably well.

Anyway, visual media….

Can I recommend Undone on Amazon? I love this series. It’s all my favorite things. Animation. Weird special effects, weird mental experiences, disjointed time/space, illusion/question of madness, Native culture and historical threads. I love it. Big fan.

Also from Amazon, It’s Life, was a heart-wrenching, lovely multi-generational love story that was just agonizing. Again, weird time switches, and ‘unreliable’ narrators, and chaotic repeats of themes…more of my favorite things. It was great.

Finally, Troop Zero. It’s friendship-is-magic for tiny Georgian weirdo girls. Charmed. Just delightful.

Also, since my own dungeons and dragons experience has been MONUMENTALLY unsuccessful (who knew it was so hard to find a bunch of grown-ups who wanted to play make-believe?), I’m back to listening to the Adventure Zone with Griffin McElroy. He’s great. My new Chris Perkins, since Wizards had the terrible taste to REPLACE THE MASTER. humph Who could possibly replace Chris Perkins? It’s been over a year, and I’m still upset. PAX is dead to me. DEAD. I listen to Griffin on my long runs and his stories are pretty excellent. The current story arc, Amnesty, isn’t my favorite, but the boys do a good job and Griffin tells it really well.