Next week
Maker: Take a load off before starting edits on HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT.
Manager: Contact cover artist for HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT; get last bits of HH into Scrivener and copy-edited from reMarkable OCR.
Marketer: As last week — rough out promo plan.
Last week(s)
Work: ✅⬛❌
Inputs:
- ORCA, by Steven Brust ✅
- DRAGON, by Steven Brust ✅
- ISSOLA, by Steven Brust ✅
- DZUR, by Steven Brust 🌗
- JADE WAR, by Fonda Lee, read by Andrew Kishino ✅
- THE BLACK MONDAY MURDERS vols. 1 & 2, by Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker ✅
- A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS, by Paul Tremblay, read by Joy Osmanski ✅
- SURVIVOR SONG, by Paul Tremblay, read by Erin Bennett ✅
- DAPHNE, by Josh Malerman, read by Patricia Santomasso ✅
- BETTER CALL SAUL S6E10, “Nippy”; S6E11, “Breaking Bad” ✅
- (If Books Could Kill) “Nudge” Part 2: Mr. Nudge Goes to Washington ✅
- (FiveThirtyEight Politics) There’s a Debt Ceiling Agreement… For Now ✅
- (FiveThirtyEight Politics) The Case For and Against Ron DeSantis 🌗
- (FiveThirtyEight Politics) Can Tim Scott’s Optimism Win Over the GOP? 🌗
I literally finished DAPHNE as I was writing this post; I need a new audiobook. Maybe something not horror. Maybe.
Last week I was sick and/or writing the newsletter and/or visiting my college for reunions, which I do every year because a few friends of mine do it every year and I don’t get to see them very often otherwise. (See featured image for how my older daughter decorated her dorm room.) Hence no work week post.
The major creative development was finishing a draft of the outline for SNOWDRIFT STARLIGHT. Which kicks off a small flurry of administrivia before getting heavily back into creative work, as outlined above.
Not much else to say. There are wildfires in Quebec and Jackson Township (in Ocean County, NJ) that have laid a smoky haze over my house; hopefully it will be gone by tomorrow, when I actually have to drive to work. And my older daughter will be gone for three days on a school trip, which I’ll mostly notice when I don’t have to wake her up for a 7:00 am bus on Thursday and Friday, and also all the rest of the time when I’m sad about her not being around. As I’ve said elsewhere, college is going to gut me like a fish.
Currently reading: DZUR, by Steven Brust.
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