Too many marshmallows: Friday Update
News:
For the first time, I was included in Ellen Datlow‘s list of the best short horror recommendations of the 2023 year with “Show Me” from Bound in Flesh and “The Thing That Crawls” from Unspeakable Horror 3. It’s a long list, but it’s still an honor to be part of it.
I sold some things this week; I’ll share more info when they’re announced.
Had what seemed like a really good job interview this week. Crossing my fingers for a second.
Don’t have a lot of Christmas spirit, but I’ve started to have a little. Creeping into its realm with eggnog, Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes (I don’t know why they’re better than LD’s other vanilla cakes, but they are, especially frozen), Christmas viewing, and Christmas music.
Works in Progress:
I’m about halfway through the first-round edits of the Dracula reimagining. I don’t know what the coming world is going to be like and what place my writing has in it, but I think the DRI is a solid piece. It’s unmistakably a reimagining but functions independently from its source material as well; it’s not superfluous or simply a beat-for-beat retelling. It reminds me of back when I read really good fanfiction, how it felt like it was in conversation with canon but was its own thing, too.
I’m still not quite at my full strength, speed, and attention span yet, but it’s improved this week. I did get my period, which was milder than usual (yay!) but occasionally uncomfortable enough to interrupt my work, plus something that seemed like a UTI (sorry, TMI), which I’m treating, yet I still moved forward faster than the weeks before.
Might try to do some poetry this next week. I had plans for long poetry this November, but my soul just couldn’t do beauty last month after the election. I function best like the Romantics: great emotions remembered in quiet stillness, of which there has been precious little in my heart or head.
Things I’m Reading:
The Apocalypse and Satan’s Glory Hole by Timothy W. Long and Jonathan Moon (finished)
Borrasca by The_Dalek_Emperor (r/NoSleep) (finished)
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Things I’m Listening To:
The Mist soundtrack
Dracula soundtracks
Christmas playlist
Things I’m Watching:
Elf
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Wishmaster
Is It Cake? Holiday series (finished)
The Christmas Cookie Showdown series
Holiday Baking Championship series
Holiday Wars series
The Great British Baking Show series
The Irrational series
Broadchurch series
NCIS series
Columbo series
Supernatural series
Grey’s Anatomy series
S.W.A.T. series
