People, think hard before you drop this link into a fat person’s email inbox.
A quick tip
StandardPeople, think hard before you drop this link into a fat person’s email inbox.
FAQ Generation
StandardReading through the thread at Suvudu about what an author’s website needs, I realized how badly I need to revise my site. One thing I need is a FAQ (apparently).
So! Do you have any questions you think I should address in a FAQ? Ask away, please!
Randomness for 5/6
Standard1) Arizona’s new immigration law made simple.
2) Hey, if they wanted privacy, they wouldn’t be doing it in the woods!
5) Automatically generate a very popular or unpopular TED Talk. Here is the TED Talk lecture that explains it all.
6) Microflora inside the human body, and how it relates to digestive illness, obesity, and other health issues. It’s amazing how little we still know about our own bodies.
7) I hate to bury this one at the bottom of the list, but I don’t want to delay posting it until the next link roundup: The Racial Politics of Regressive Storytelling. For some years, DC had been recasting “legacy” heroes with non-white characters. The new Atom was Chinese-American (and awesome!). The new Blue Beetle was a Mexican-American kid (and a lot of fun, if not as awesome as The Atom). I never read the new Firestorm, probably because my library doesn’t carry it. Now they’re pushing them to the side so they can “bring back” the original characters. Idiots.
Let me follow up that long post with this short one?
StandardWhat’s your favorite book trailer? Links are appreciated.
“I hate the imperialist west, but I got such a great deal on this coat!”
StandardThis is going to be long, so I’ll establish the subject matter and lay in a cut.
During Pizza Week (aka, while my wife was out of town) my son and I did quite a bit of video gaming. Generally, I played and he sat beside me telling me what he thought I should do. The best game we played, the most fun and the most enthralling, was Freedom Force.
I’m going to break this up into sections:
1. Why a long post about Freedom Force?
2. A perfect game? Um, no.
3. Why my son loved the game so much he wasn’t interested in the last couple of levels (hint: it’s not because he didn’t want it to end).
4. What about the sequel?
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Live near Seattle? Want to see a movie?
StandardBack in 2004, I wrote a screenplay designed to be made on an ultra-low budget. In 2005, my friend Dan Moore shot it. Now, in 2010, it’s ready for release.
On May 20th, at NW Film Forum, the indie film I wrote will have its world premiere. It’s called THE DEAD FEED, and here’s a 21-second preview:
The Dead Feed Teaser from Blaine Street Productions on Vimeo.
Facebook users, that’s an embedded video. You’ll have to click through to the blog to see it. Did I mention 21 seconds?
Will the movie be awesome? I hope so! I haven’t been involved in post-production at all, and haven’t even seen a rough cut in the last couple of years. I will be there with a camera in hand to record the responses of the audience members. After, I will post them, even if their faces are full of boredom or scorn! If folks love the movie, I will bask in the accomplishment. If they hate it, I will flush with shame.
Have I mentioned that making this movie is what drove me to write novels? Seriously. I’d long planned to go into movie-making and once I realized I was going to be a Seattle resident long-term, I teamed up with Dan to take control of our careers and make our own. (Never wait!)
But I was terrible at it. Making a movie is a real pain in the ass and I discovered I didn’t have the skill set or the temperament for it. Immediately after production wrapped, I started work on Child of Fire. Novels FTW!
But Dan never walked away. He’s been struggling with that film for 5 years, and in that time he lost his job and became homeless. All sorts of rough shit happened to him, but he stuck with it and now he’s sending it off to film festivals.
The evening of May 20th. (I’ll post more details when I confirm them.) Want to join me there?
Update: Jeez, I forgot to say what the movie is about! Quick description: a group of friends begin receiving a mysterious video feed showing one of them being murdered… before it happens. (dum dum DUMMM!)
Last Day of Pizza Week
StandardPizza Week has been hard on writing time. It’s the lack of sleep that does it, and the domestic duties. I’ve been keeping on top of the housework, mostly, but my wife arrives tonight so there’s some last minute straightening to be done so the place looks nice for her.
The Buried King is coming together pretty well. Luckily I’m at the planning stages so I can plot while I vacuum. If I were at the drafting stages, this would have been a rough week. At this point, though, what I really need is a decent name for my protagonist.
And there’s stuff to blog about, but no time to blog it. Maybe tonight or tomorrow. Time to be busy again.
And now I abandon my child to share some news with you
StandardMy German foreign language agent has just sold worldwide German rights to Otherworld Verlag Krug Keg. They’re an ambitious small(ish) press out of Austria, and it’s incredibly exciting.
That makes Russian, French, and German sales. So far.
:D