Maker: NA Manager: Figure out why I can’t write posts on this site without getting a Critical Error; continue transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT. Marketer: Couple blog post ideas in the tank but, honestly, may need to fuck off with this in favor of just being done with transcription already. Item #1 under “Manager” is already done,… Continue reading Work week 2023-02-07
Category: update
Happy to be here
I have a couple of friends from middle school whose houses I was at a lot as a kid. Later in life, I always thought it was a little odd — in the best possible way! — how nice those friends’ parents were to me, both while I was at their houses a lot and… Continue reading Happy to be here
Work week 2023-01-30
Maker: Finish newsletter Manager: Continue transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT; research Kobo promotions. Marketer: Ideate a promo stack; send out newsletter; maybe a couple of small blog posts? Last week we were a sick house, and we’re still not quite over it. Trying to take it slow for a little longer. Photo is a magnolia bud on… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-30
The enfloofification of TikTok
As a human who’s never done more than beer money from fiction sales, I’m not here to tell anyone to quit something that’s working, but I think this article ought to give some pause both to all the folks who are hoping to kill it on #BookTok and those who’ve actually succeeded. Social media platforms… Continue reading The enfloofification of TikTok
Work week 2023-01-23
Maker: Figure out January newsletter content Manager: Continue transcription of HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT Marketer: WINDBURN WHIPLASH to socials and blog for real this week, you god-damned animal Today’s featured image is a drawing my 11-year-old daughter made when she discovered her Kobo is apparently also an Etch-a-Sketch? Recently watched: THE RENTAL, dir. Dave Franco. I might… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-23
An alternative Levittown
Here’s an experience for you: I’m on a train from Trenton to DC. This travels the same track as my old commute from Trenton to Philadelphia, but after a minute I realized I wasn’t seeing the same things: some marshy areas with nothing but bare trees and a few birds of prey, the backs of… Continue reading An alternative Levittown
Work week 2023-01-17
Maker: NA Manager: Transcribe HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT to end of manuscript; if done, decide on fate of SNOWDRIFT STARLIGHT plotline Marketer: Couple of blog posts; WINDBURN WHIPLASH preorder to socials. (Sometimes it helps me to have notes on my intentions, so I can at least know I’m doing what I’m not supposed to be doing. Format… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-17
The Nona maneuver
Just marking this as the day it occurred to me that the Streets of Flame Quartet may need to become a quintet. This all relies on very, very raw turns of events in HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT, which only exist in my head and a notebook, so all of this is highly abstract and none is guaranteed.… Continue reading The Nona maneuver
Leeks & lentils
The most recent episode of Maintenance Phase is a journey through a scandal I hadn’t heard of: the severe poisoning of dozens? hundreds? of people who’d eaten Daily Harvest’s leek and lentil crumbles. The episode is worth a listen end to end; Michael expands this one story out into a tour through recent changes in… Continue reading Leeks & lentils
“A bridge too far”
The resolution approving Bridge Point 8 was “memorialized” tonight. This apparently means spending an hour and a half fixing typos, then opening the floor for 15 minutes of public comment. Both sides of the issue were vigorously represented HAHAHA JESUS ARE YOU KIDDING, literally no one who’s not (a) on the planning board or (b)… Continue reading “A bridge too far”