What Else in July
Joseffy shows absolutely no deception. (The Sphinx, May 1931)
Added 16K to my restart of the Abbott Project. (Still no title…) That brings the grand total to 25K, which is the longest of the post-NaNo rewrites. I still get caught in research holes, but those aren’t exactly bad things. My tentative plan for August is to add 3000 words to the manuscript every five days. Basically, I’ll take two days to goof-off/research/edit and then concentrate on adding positive word counts for the three days after that. I’m shooting for a total manuscript length of 43K-45K by the end of August.
Query-wise:
Between travel, Eric querying his novel, and Eric giving Luck for Hire‘s query a once over, I pretty much took the month off from sending anything out. I had one query and response each for Luck for Hire and Model Species.
Other Life Stuff
Obviously Comic Con was the biggie. We were pretty much out of town for a week and then came con crud once we were back. Hopefully, August will be nice and calm and productive.
Books Obtained
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
The 100 (The Hundred, #1) by Kass Morgan
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic Emily Croy Barker
The Dead Run: A Novel by Adam Mansbach
Minor Miracles by Will Eisner
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1 ed. by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Other Books I Want to Read
At Goodreads:
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1) by Mark Hodder
The Swan Gondola: A Novel Timothy Schaffert
The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist by Karl JohnsonA Polish Book of Monsters by Michael Kandel
Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson
Edge by Koji Suzuki
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Facts, Frauds, & Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement by Georgess McHargue
Thirteenth Night (Fools’ Guild, #1) by Alan Gordon
Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective by Paul Kane
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Coroner’s Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1) by Colin Cotterill
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by J.W. Ironmonger
The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
At the Greater Phoenix Digital Library/Open Library:
Spirit slate writing and kindred phenomena by Chung Ling Soo
