July's writing progress
It turns out I was lying about having the audiobook of
Dust & Water
on sale by the end of this month. But I was lying for the right reasons. Breda was in Ireland for most of this month, so I decided to take advantage of the quiet evenings to start recording an audiobook of Stone & Silence. (Breda's fond of her TV programmes, and doesn't like having to switch off while I'm recording.) I did finish editing Dust & Water, so now that she's back, the next job will be to listen to it and fix any mistakes, and then it can go on sale. With a bit of luck, Stone & Silence won't be far behind, as I'm two-thirds of the way through recording it.
Our local writers' group was invited to do some readings in the intervals of some outdoor concerts. I did a couple, and had them videoed for posterity. One is from my children's book Simon and the Birthday Wish, which you can watch here. The other is The Last Story, a "tribute" to the golden era of the film noir detective story, which is here. The sound quality isn't great, as the mic picked up a fair bit of wind noise, and there were usually some... lovely people talking near the camera. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) famous enough to get away with telling them to shut up while I'm talking.
I started a Facebook author page, which you can find at https://www.facebook.com/StevenJPembertonAuthor/. It goes by the rather confusing name of "Fantasy and Science Fiction Author". I was trying to get that title to appear when you hover your mouse over my profile picture, and entered it as my place of employment. (Which is kind-of, sort-of true if you squint at it in the right way with a following wind.) A few days later, Facebook asked if I wanted to have that as the name of a page. Apparently, of the thousands of people on Facebook who write fantasy or science fiction or both, none had thought to put "Fantasy and Science Fiction Author" as their profession or employer. So I grabbed it before I (or Facebook) could change our minds. I haven't quite decided what to do with the page in the longer term. So far I've been reposting the book-related videos that I've got on YouTube.
With all that excitement, I also managed to write a 2000-word short story, but I'm going to hold onto it for a while until I have a better idea about what to do with it.
Our local writers' group was invited to do some readings in the intervals of some outdoor concerts. I did a couple, and had them videoed for posterity. One is from my children's book Simon and the Birthday Wish, which you can watch here. The other is The Last Story, a "tribute" to the golden era of the film noir detective story, which is here. The sound quality isn't great, as the mic picked up a fair bit of wind noise, and there were usually some... lovely people talking near the camera. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) famous enough to get away with telling them to shut up while I'm talking.
I started a Facebook author page, which you can find at https://www.facebook.com/StevenJPembertonAuthor/. It goes by the rather confusing name of "Fantasy and Science Fiction Author". I was trying to get that title to appear when you hover your mouse over my profile picture, and entered it as my place of employment. (Which is kind-of, sort-of true if you squint at it in the right way with a following wind.) A few days later, Facebook asked if I wanted to have that as the name of a page. Apparently, of the thousands of people on Facebook who write fantasy or science fiction or both, none had thought to put "Fantasy and Science Fiction Author" as their profession or employer. So I grabbed it before I (or Facebook) could change our minds. I haven't quite decided what to do with the page in the longer term. So far I've been reposting the book-related videos that I've got on YouTube.
With all that excitement, I also managed to write a 2000-word short story, but I'm going to hold onto it for a while until I have a better idea about what to do with it.
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