Greetings all,
Long time no update. After so much build up and hype that was followed by near silence on my part, you're probably wondering what is going on. The answer: not a whole lot. I received and finished the marketing questionaire and cover brief sent to me by the Inkshares team, which was waaaay more fun to fill out than it had any right to be. Then, I sent in my manuscript. And now, we play the waiting game as the production team does their thing. I'll keep you updated as I get reports on their progress.
So that's all I've done on the book, however, that's not all that's going on for me.
In Our Fair City news, we are currently hard at work preparing scripts for season seven with read-through's coming at the end of the month. As far as things you can listen to, I've got two more episodes coming up soon as well as our extra-long Season 1 Revisited episode. You'll be able to find those at www.ourfaircity.com or on iTunes at Our Fair City.
There's also my Midnight Audtio Theatre contest winning script which is still in production. When it is ready, that will be up at http://midnightaudiotheatre.com.
July 2-5, I will be attending CONvergence in my old stomping grounds of Minneapolis (technically Bloomington, but whatever.) Our Fair City will be performing a live episode before the closing ceremonies, I will be appearing on a few writing panels, and I will be canvassing the convention site with the Unattractive Vampire postcards I've ordered.
What else? I've got a few other writing projects I'll be working on in the next month. My next novel is currently in its third draft and I am awaiting notes from a few fellow writers who are reading it for me. Once my Our Fair City episodes are done, I'll begin rewriting scripts for a web-series I hope to start movement on. Following that will be my submissions for WildClaw Theatre's Deathscribe competition, which I will unwisely link to: http://www.wildclawtheatre.com/deathscribe. (You don't REALLY want to submit to that though, do you?) And of course, there was my other big news of being accepted to DePaul University's Master of Writing program, which I will be preparing for.
So yeah a lot on my plate.
There's a long way to go until our publishing date in January. But as you've been good enough to get this book published for me, I'll make sure you know everything that's going on. Because, yeah without you, most of this awesome would not be happening.
Thanks, as always,
Jim
It's fourth of July weekend. More importantly, it's CONvergence week! Yes, I will once again return to my old stomping grounds of Minneapolis and St. Paul (mostly Minneapolis, stomping is frowned upon in St. Paul, especially after nine p.m.) in order to attend the Convergence Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Bloomington, Minnesota.
And lest you think I'm going empty handed...
That's right con goers, prepare to find one of these bad boys on counter tops, taped to walls, and shoved under the doors of your convention hotel room, because I ordered a lot of them and my apartment isn't that big.
I won't just be going person to person promoting my book, however. I'll also be be promoting my book to groups of persons, a practice known in convention parlance as "paneling." I will be discussing "Building Worlds for Fiction" on Friday at 3:30 and finding ways to write jokes into the malevolent future societies that await us in the "Dystopia in Humor/Humor in Dystopia panel at 9:30 Sunday morning. Because nothing says comedy, like an AM panel on a convention weekend. There will also be stacks of postcards for all who attend.
And don't miss my fellow writers and performers from Our Fair City as they perform our live radioplay "The Archibald Funnypants Variety Hour" at 4 PM on the mainstage before the closing ceremonies. Music! Molepeople! Live foley! You might even see me onstage, very briefly.
It's going to be a big weekend. So if you or anyone you know or might have known or will might have known in an alternate timeline that was currently erased from existence are in Minneapolis this weekend, swing by CONvergence and say hi. Who knows, there could even be a postcard in it for you.
For more information about CONvergence visit http://www.convergence-con.org/