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June 23, 2015
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March 29, 2015
Leucothoe Book Trailer
hey here is the book trailer for "Leucothoe" done by myself and Gisela Pizzatto.
March 23, 2015
Lazy Day
Was lazy today. Didn't get much done except for some comic book reading. I did do some readings on video, but I wasn't happy with the results. I want to do more videos for my work, but I'm not sure how to go about that yet.
Also need to look into a better way to record audio. The room I work in has too much natural reverberation, and it shows in the recordings I've made so far. Might have to invest in a little portable sound diffusion kit.
Had a major revelation about the plot of Del & Huck, but I'm not going to go into it here. All I can say is I'm thinking of having a long flashback to the fracture and the war, telling Huck's story a bit more.
Pretty much decided I'm gonna try Amazon's ACX.com program to make an audio book for Evil Summer. I'll have my recordings of course, but I want something more professional that I can sell. Gonna look into it at least and see how it works, what it costs, etc.
I'm glad Leucothoe is done and for sale. It was a long time coming, but now I can kind of let it go. It feels good. Looking forward to more.
March 22, 2015
Hooray!
Well, the inaugural print book is up. Leucothoe is now officially for sale on Amazon. Here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0692408568
I don't expect to sell many copies any time soon, but I'm looking at all of this on a ten year, maybe even twenty year scale, and I think this is an important step.
It was originally conceived as an iPad storybook, but I didn't like it very much when it came to fruition. But now that it's something you can hold in your hands, I'm quite happy.
It is part of a proposed series, but it took so long to make just this one, I don't know if that will happen or not. I've got the next one in my head, but me and Gisela have other projects lined up right now, so who knows when it will happen.
The next step is getting Evil Summer up on Amazon... I have another proof coming, but I sort of have a bad feeling about it. It might take more time.
March 20, 2015
Audio Explorations
Spent the day working on a couple things... first of all, I recorded myself reading about half the poems of Evil Summer before I got exhausted. I put music to one of them, and it's below. I'll probably put music to all of them, just sounds better that way I guess. I'm happy with them, they sound ok. I want to put out a podcast of them.
I'm also going to record videos of myself reading stuff, but I haven't figured out that yet. I will probably put music and maybe some abstract stuff in there as well. Don't know.
I also started working on the Fan Club newsletter which was a nice distraction from real work. It's just kind of silly and fun.
I spent the day waiting for a proof of Leucothoe, but it never came. It is supposed to arrive tomorrow, on Saturday I guess. Excited to see it. I hope it worked out, I want to get it out there pronto.
March 19, 2015
Various Musings...
I tend to have really detailed, really messed up, soul-destroying dreams that tend to leave me writhing in bed and wondering who boiled my reality. I guess everyone has dreams that are so real that they make you shiver. I used to not dream though. I chalk up my current situation to my strange sleep patterns, and medication.
I've been doing brainstorming for Del & Huck, for about the next 80 pages or so, and I think I have things worked out so far. I was really unclear about it at first, it was this gaping hole between where I was and where I wanted to go. But as the days pass and I think about it more and more, it is making more sense and becoming more concrete.
I was having a crisis of confidence with Year I Slept, but I kind of get it now. It's important that I have two books about Q, Year I Slept, and Purple Butterfly. Year I Slept is about me though, whereas Purple Butterfly is more about her. The first is a realistic novel, mostly, while the second is very surreal and kind of silly in a sad way.
I need to have both as companions... I think because I have to explain my feelings about the matter in Year I Slept, but I want to have an unclouded monument to her with Purple Butterfly. Anyways, this is what I've been thinking of lately....
Ouch!
Okay, so the cover needs some work. The black text over the dark picture was a major mistake, but I'm not a designer, not by a long shot. The interior however looks nice. Just needs to be on cream paper, not ultra white.
So maybe by next week if all goes well with the second version, I'll get it up for sale. We'll see.
