Still recovering from the gauntlet of joy that is Balticon, I opened my email with bleary eyes to discover this message from Lulu.com:
“Congratulations, your book has been selected for listing on Amazon.com’s Marketplace! As a result, your book will now be easily found on the world’s largest online bookseller. ”
That would be this book, here:
Astounded, I searched for my name on Amazon. Sure enough, there it is. So, if you find yourself hankering for 50 pieces of weirdness (plus illustrations!) by yours truly, here you go. It’s ready for you at Amazon.
Also, If anyone knows how I can put a cover and some interior pages up there, I’d sure appreciate it. I’ve got all sorts of content for that page.
And thanks, Lulu.
…with this special report.
On a whim this morning I sent a editor I hadn’t heard from in awhile, to ask if she and her publisher were still interested in a project we had talked about months ago (vague enough for ya’?). Long story short, they are still very much interested, and consequently I need to get my rear in gear on THIS possibly published project. Which means other projects need to get kicked to curb for a bit. Like, say, writing 30 stories in 30 days, to choose a completely random example from out of nowhere.
However, the fact remains that the point of NaNoWriMo is the Wri, so I’m counting the word-work for this project in with the rest of it, as it is still, in fact writing. I really need to keep up this pace, anyway.
So, for those keeping track, 2 weeks in I’ve got 10 and one-half stories. Which is not bad at all. Hopefully, at a NaNoWriMo pace, I can whip this project into shape and still have time for a few more stories before the end of November.
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One of the things that’s been pecking at my brain over and over is the need to put out a new book in time to have copies available at Balticon. I’d have to get it done before May 1st, in
order to have them in my hot little hands come the Con. Two months and change is not a lot of time to slap together a book, so my options are limited, mainly to pulling together stuff I already have. As of right now, I have these ideas:
A companion to my other book, Tales From The Uncanny Valley. I’ve got 30 or so stories written that could go in there, but they’re all flash, so that’s not too much of a book. A new version of TFTUV, with the added stories is a possibility too.
An art book. I like the idea of a giant, coffee-table-ready tome of my art, as if I’m some sort of awesome, big-shot cartoonist. It would clearly be hubris, but then again, I am self-publishing. In for penny, you know?
A children’s book. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a book about a hedgehog and his best friend touring the solar system and learning how running away from your problems doesn’t solve them. This would be–gasp–new material, but the relative brevity makes it doable. Also, drawing hedgehogs is fun.
A catalogue of devices. I’ve made enough props that I can put together a slim catalogue of retro-futuristic weaponry. Throw in some tongue-and-cheek descriptions and a few skewed testimonials, and I could have something that’s fun, if slight. Would you buy a raygun from this man?
