There’s a long list.
- Getting all my book covers updated so I can order more copies of my books for summer cons.
- Looking into adding Ingramspark for paperback distribution & ordering.
- Eyeballing the need to redo interior graphics because see above. (also because I think one of the files might be corrupted or I screed up page breaks somewhere)
- Finalizing plans for Indy Pop Con & Printers Row (I won’t be there, but my books will, thanks to awesome, awesome friends.)
- Working on character card graphics. second-guessing myself over whether I should bother with getting those printed because who cares?
- Waffling over doing pins with the Unity logo and/or the Poz hazard symbol. (see above)
- Deciding whether to do more patches or not bother yet. (I still have lots)
- Trying not to worry about not doing ebook promotion on social media. Freaking out about the total lack of sales lately.
- Hammering away at a blurb for Sharp Edge of Yesterday.
- cleaning up old graphics & book drafts on my hard drive. So. Many. Obsolete. Files.
- Revising, revising, revising! Sharp Edge is getting shinier by the day. My nerves are getting more frayed by the day as I run low on TIME.
<deep breath> It will all work out. I know. I’m just…revving really hard on the inside, even when I seem perfectly calm from the outside.
Reading
I am in “read low-brain-power things to recharge” mode. I have now re-read all of Lois McMaster Bujold’s fantasy works, and am working my way through Anne Bishops Others series. The more I re-read Bujold, the more I am awed by how effortlessly she unfolds the stories and interweaves world-building description with description/plot action. The books really hold up over time & through multiple re-reads. Anne Bishop…weeeell, now. I am in a mood where plot structure quirks and iffy gender role presentations are irking me bigtime, but I still love the concept, characters, and overarching story of this series.
Movie Viewing:
AQUAMAN aka “Underwater Thor.” Good fun. Okay, not really GOOD, but totally fun.
CAPTAIN MARVEL. I am so totally in love with this movie. SORTA SPOILER ALERT? Vaguespoilering, anyway. Tons of fighty fights but no Huge Climactic Boss Battle, a woman protagonist who is unabashedly kickass because she wants to be, not because angsty or tragic or conflicted or Cuz A Man Helped, and oh, wow, the sub-plot with the gas-lighting and all that foggy, gray moral ground. <happy sigh>
Television Viewing:
VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE. I waited until it was all done to watch it through. This show is…problematic. So much celebration and happy-ending-making and literal whitewashing of historically horrible events, decisions, and people. The progressive, enlightened attitudes of mant characters are pure fiction, and the subtext of “see, they weren’t such bad people, they did X and Y and that was GOOD?” is far from subtle.
But. Oh, but-but-but. The costumes and characters and the writing come together to make a fluffy fantasy narrative that is a delight to my eyes and brain, and so I enjoy it.
THAT ONE TORNADO SHOW ON THE WEATHER CHANNEL. Yes, they have like, umpteen storm shows, but the only one I can stand is the one that’s basically a minute-by-minute documentary of the specific tornado, with as much rasw footage as they can scoop together from eyewitnesses.
I tried to watch some of the others, but they were…painful reality TV, with worse talking heads who say nothing and information diced up so fine and fed out so slowly it HURT. Cannot Watch. Maybe if I had the flu.
And that’s about it.
I mean, there’s lots of other things, sure, between garden, and family, and playing with my Instant Pot but nothing for blog yet, and this post has run on long enough.
Until later!