Vince Churchill's Blog, page 11

Torn Between 3 Ideas...

And I STILL can’t decide which book to write next. I have 3 ideas, though one would be best as...

Commercial VS Personal

So, as creative folk, we often have to choose what projects to work on. I think it always comes down...

And just like that, completely out of the blue, I’m going...

And just like that, completely out of the blue, I’m going to be a film director. And it only took me about four seconds to realize that’s what I do when I write my books. Direct my very visual writing style so readers can really see and feel what I want them too. I’m really excited about the opportunity. It’s for a superhero fan film trailer. I’ve already been asked to direct the feature too, but even I want to see how that goes before committing myself to a full length project. It’s a couple weeks away, so I’m still sleeping great…ha ha ha.

I have a sneaky suspicion I’m going to be very good at it, which will open the door to some very interesting options for my haunted high school script. 

To Sign, or Not to Sign...

I L-O-V-E book signing events. Love ‘em. I love the opportunity to sit behind a dealer’s...

Just returned home from a mercurial 4 day trip to Los Angeles....

Just returned home from a mercurial 4 day trip to Los Angeles. Having spent 20+ years there, between the ages of 24-44, I consider it my second home. I hadn’t been back since late fall of 2010. 

I remember when I moved from Illinois to Southern California back in 1986. It was the greatest adventure of my life. It was overwhelming at first, but I quickly grew to love LA. It felt like I’d found my place in this world.

Visiting this time around, though the overall trip was a tetter totter, the feeling of belonging was there the moment I stepped outside LAX. For such a noisy, smoggy, crowded place, I love it unconditionally. My last three books are all set in LA, both present and future. It still fills full of adventure and wonder, and I always feel like I can be 100% myself there. At times I struggle with myself here in the Midwest. Every day a part of me wants to return to live out the rest of my life somewhere in the cit of angels, but every day the dds of me returning grow smaller and smaller, which has planted a seed of sadness in me that takes the giddy edge off of any great news I’m fortunate enough to receive. Minor daily irritants plague me much more here in West Central Illinois. Even with the new wonderful granddaughter, I exist here more than I live. Every day it feels like I’m fighting to create a comfortable life from sticks and stones because my creative skill set doesn’t fit in as well in my current surroundings as well as it does LA. I’m out of place and know it. A triangle can fit into the space of a square, but not fully fill it. That’s how I feel.

Its a great gift having two homes you can be comfortable in. I just happen to be living in the wrong one.

For now. And maybe forever.

Waiting, Choosing...

So, here I am in mid-June, unsure about what to create next, but still with a couple of unfinished...

The first image was what the publisher & I originally...

The first image was what the publisher & I originally discovered for the cover of my new erotic thriller, Hyde. It’s an awesome representation of my novella, but the artist didn’t respond to us, and we had to move on. Artists can sometimes have a reputation for being flaky, but to this artist I can only shrug and wonder what could have been. This wonderful image adorning the cover of my delicious adult fairy tale. What an awesome team they would have made. What could have been.

All the artist had to do was answer an email.

We were confident we could find another image that would be an equally good fit. We were in a win-win situation. The artist could have reached back to us while we searched for a replacement, but he/she never responded. And guess what?

Check out the real cover. We won.

It Never Gets Old

Picking up the first copy of a new book is hard to describe. I recent held my first granddaughter...

Drive-In Flick Friday!

As a movie lover, and proud drive-in movie supporter, I don’t talk enough about films. More...

Rollerskating Uphill

The last few months have been a whirlwind. Been involved in several important projects, but nothing...