LOCATION: Windsor, Brisbane, Australia.
THE QUICK-AND-DIRTY NEWS
- Printers have shipped out first print run of Joanne Anderton’s Inanimates, which should arrive around mid-week.
- First COVID vaccination jab yesterday, which means I’m aching like hell today.
- I’m searching for a new day job, which has thrown life into chaos.
- Our cat had an emergency vet visit, which means…
- I’m open for freelance cover design gigs, and have a few pre-made covers for sale at a discount.
CURRENT INBOX: 65 (Officially in drop everything and fix it phase, because anything over 30 usually means I’m ignoring important stuff that will come back to bite me later)
WORKING ON
- Layouts and cover designs for a Corella Press project
- Writing so many selection criteria
- Edits and cover design for January and February releases from Brain Jar (currently behind because of cat drama)
- A very secret project I’ll talk more about in November.
- Writing a zombie-infested D&D fantasy novella which may or may not be terrible.
- Contracts, as always, and edits, as always
THINKING ABOUT
- I’m ratcheted way down to the bottom of Masłow’s hierarchy of needs right now, so there’s not a lot of deep thought going on beyond prioritizing urgent jobs.
READING
- Luanne G Smith’s The Vine Witch, still, because it hasn’t been a good book for my stressed brain.
- Stephen Graham Jones The Only Good Indians, a phenomenal book that blends a melange of influences into a gloriously cohesive whole.
LISTENING TO
- I seem to be starting most mornings with The Hive’s Hate To Say I Told You So, or Pulp’s This Is Hardcore.
WATCHING
- Reservation Dogs: incredible TV that breaks all sorts of storytelling rules in all sorts of interesting ways. Just…watch it.
- Doom Patrol: Just when I thought they’d burned me out on DCs superhero television shows, along comes Doom Patrol which has the right amount of bat shit crazy, deeply weird superhero lore, meta-text, and career-resurgence-of-Brendan-Fraser to utterly capture my attention.
- We’re also revisiting the first season of Jodie Whittaker’s run as the Doctor, with the aim of getting to the seasons we haven’t seen yet.
STATUS OF THE ADMIRAL
