Roderick T. Macdonald's Blog, page 5
November 19, 2024
Jazzed to Sluggishly Meet you, My dear Boswell.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have had two full strength coffees. I should be powered up beyond belief. But I ate two grotesquely sugared cookies (I was sugar free for about 5 months this year and fell off the wagon just before Hallowe’en, not a good time to give in to temptation! …
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November 12, 2024
Plans for the Future, and Religion in Fantasy
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I hope you have had a great week. Mine was good, if littered with snowy commutes of which I am not fond. Experiments in marketing go on. Self-education on many fronts continue to be delayed, which is a little depressing because I keep adding things to the pile …
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November 5, 2024
Hard Lessons (and Progress)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Front cover is finalized. Paperback and hardback covers are underway. Formatting proceeds, and once that and the print covers are complete I will have a book ready to go. So hopefully all will be in place by the end of this month. Fingers crossed, but monkeys armed with …
October 30, 2024
Variables and Variations
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The front cover is finalized, with paperback and hardback layouts to come. The formatting corrections are in process. I have been brave and put The Killer and The Dead up for review on BookSirens. This is part of my time to embrace new aspects of book business, and …
October 22, 2024
Making Games of Work
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! It has been a week since last I blogged. A long week, filled with nonsense, and not the fun kind that Alice had to deal with. Part of the reason I am not a book business person is I loathe dealing with bureaucracy, with paperwork, with checklists and …
October 15, 2024
Writing, The Struggle Toward Catharsis
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Third version of cover has been seen. Close, so close. I have proofed the formatting in the book version of the manuscript. Twenty seven changes later it is complete. Should have been fewer, I know. There were a few hiccups I think I could go back to… but …
October 8, 2024
The ARC of the Universe is Long, and Bends Toward… Playing Pool?
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Cover art is almost there! I am proofing the formatted version of the book, and it is hard reading the words again, for what seems like the millionth time. I’ve had doubts, but writers always do. I’ve also had bursts of pleasure, where the words, even a million …
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October 1, 2024
Cover art and Futures Emerging from Dream
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Another week flies by. The Killer and the Dead is now on sale: if this book belongs to any month, it’s October! (In lands that make note of Hallowe’en, or have October as the prelude to Day of the Dead at the start of November.) This week I …
September 24, 2024
Of Cabbage-rolls and Kings.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have improved my day to day constructiveness this weekend. At the cost of learning Scots. I’ll take it, for now. In perusing the internet (never advisable) I have discovered I am the worst indie author ever (by elimination), because I first published 7 years ago and have …
September 17, 2024
Long Day’s Rambling into Night (Gratitude and Random Thoughts)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The end of a long day. He says at 7.51pm. I need more days like this. LCCN applied for, ISBN for 3 versions of The Gardener and The Goddess assigned, synopsis written, blurb rewritten and finalized. Cleaned up my office: I’m no longer in danger of being overcome …
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