Friday Status Post: 21 Dec 2018

BIG THINGS ACHIEVED THIS WEEK: A whole bunch of Brain Jar busy work, including:

• New covers for You Don’t Want To Be Published and The Birdcage Heart.
• Finalising and uploading copies of Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor and Other Things We Called The Band, which will be the next Brain Jar Short Story release scheduled for Boxing Day.
• Resuming daily Conan posts over on Twitter, after some very intermittent posting over recent weeks.
• Christmas Shopping.

STATE OF THE WRITING PROJECTS: Warhol Sleeping progresses scene by scene, but it’s well and truly over 40k now, which means we’re in short novel territory. I’m also working on a MMA-in-Space project that riffs on Robert E. Howard’s Sailor Steve Costigan stories, as a bit of a palate cleanser after the difficult narrator of Warhol Sleeping.

CURRENT EARWORM: Bad Romance, Lady Gaga. Or possibly the Amanda Palmer version. I just have a whole bunch of oh-ra-oh-la-la running through my skull and it isn’t going away.

CURRENT READING: I’ve ended up reading Genevive Valentine’s Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti and Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus at the same time, which is a whole lot of vaguely-steampunk-themed magic-circus reading that should probably not be included in a year that’s had a lot of vaguely-steampunk-themed magic circus reading. It’s possible one needs to be put aside for a time.

BEST SCREEN MEDIA OF THE WEEK: We’re powering through the second seasons of 3% and Lucifer and it’s all been pretty damn glorious, to be honest. Just have to find myself a window to go see Into the Spiderverse in the next week or so.

EMAIL INBOX STATUS: 29 emails that need to be processed, which almost feel like being on top of things at this time of year.

WHAT AM I LOOKING FORWARD TO RIGHT NOW? I am incredibly psyched for my partner to open her Christmas present in four days.