Status: 29 April 2020

LOCATION: Windsor, Brisbane, Australia.

THE QUICK-AND-DIRTY UPDATES

• Just finished up ten straight days of marking assignments, and I’m rebuilding my writing routines.
• Pivoting into a month of fairly intense deadlines—I’ll be slow to respond to emails, comments, and messages.
• My brain is full of pirates, comics, and space mercenaries.
• If you read 11 years of Warren Ellis blog posts in the space of ten days it’ll do weird things to your brain.  

CURRENT INBOX: 14 (plus 4 outstanding emails I still really need to send)

WORKING ON

• Editing Crusade (Keith Murphy Urban Fantasy Thriller #3)
• Finalising contracts that crashed into marking deadlines
• Writing a sci-fi novella for my thesis, Disposable Bodies.
• Drafting a short story in the Black Magic, Black Sails universe
• Thinking out loud with an ongoing series of blog posts about comic books and fiction publishing.
• Uploading the Brain Jar backlist to the BundleRabbit system and Google Books

THINKING ABOUT

• Rebuilding daily routines and bringing my focus on short-term writing goals.
• A freelance cover design and layout project I’ll be meeting folks about on Friday.
• Pro-wresting narratives and how they achieve certain effects

PROJECTS ON HAITUS

• A supplementary Keith Murphy series about life on the Gold Coast while awaiting Ragnarok (too close to the current age)

READING

• TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson
• MASTER & COMMANDER, Patrick O’Brien
• THE LAST WISH, Andrzej Sapkowski

LISTENING TO

• Hot Knife, Fiona Apple

WATCHING

• AEW Dynamite episodes 14-19

CHANCE THAT I WILL DEPLOY ORBITAL LASERS TO DESTROY YOU ALL IN THE COMING WEEK?

• 16.01%

STATUS OF THE ADMIRAL