Work week 2023-07-03

Next week

Maker: Continue reverse outline of HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT

Manager: Actually email cover artist for HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT

Marketer: Blog posts maybe?

Last week

Work:

Inputs:

JHEGAALA, Steven Brust IORICH, Steven Brust TIASSA, Steven Brust HAWK, Steven Brust VAGABONDS, Hao Jingfang, read by Emily Woo Zeller WOLF IN WHITE VAN, written and read by John Darnielle DOPAMINE NATION, written and read by Anna Lembke HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J. K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J. K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, dir. David Yates CREEP, dir. Patrick Brice CREEP 2, dir. Patrick Brice BEASTARS S2E11, “Scatter Your Scales”; S2E12, “Taste of Rebellion” RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN, by Lucas Pope “Business Musings: Niche Marketing Part One,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “The Ask Jeeves-ification of online search,” by Elizabeth Lopatto

That’s like two and a half weeks of input, though, easy. Harry Potter stuff has skulls because it’s ambient exposure; I didn’t complete those listenings/viewings and don’t plan to. VAGABONDS is the rare book where I specifically don’t like the audio—and it’s not that I don’t like the narrator, it’s that for some reason I’m happy to read this prose but I don’t like listening to it. I imagine it’s not a coincidence I’m having this rare experience listening to the rare translated book, but I don’t know what to chalk it up to.

I’d like to find some time to write about RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN and DOPAMINE NATION at more length. VAGABONDS too, maybe. We’ll see.

This week’s image was acquired at Stateline Blueberries in Michigan City, Indiana.

Currently listening: WOLF IN WHITE VAN, written and read by John Darnielle.