What Else in August

Writing Work

Starting a new draft…yesterday. Same ol’, same ol’.

Query-wise:

# of submissions for Luck for Hire: 4

# of responses: 2

# of submissions for Model Species: 2

# of responses: 0

Queries were tweaked.

Other Life Stuff

August was the doldrums of summer. Read some stuff. Wrote some stuff. Played too much MineCraft. Helped get fall league set up for VOTS.

Looking forward R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril. and fall league and college football and heading back to Nebraska for a real taste of autumn.

Books Obtained

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough
Magic by William Goldman

Other Books I Want to Read

At Goodreads:

Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
The Supernatural? by Lionel A. Weatherly
The Psychic Mafia by Allen Spraggett
The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine by Tom Standage
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, & Sandra Blakeslee

At the Greater Phoenix Digital Library:

The Anatomist’s Apprentice by Tessa Harris