| if anyone is interested |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|12:49 am] |
here is some of the art for my upcoming novel....i'm making some of the interiors available for purchase as a print. I think i'll add them to Deviant Art too and see if i can drum up some interest :)
OUTCASTS Book 1 Interior
Currently there is 1 map and 9 interiors slated for the book. still deciding if i want to do a tenth, and of course the cover.
Status:
- The Map and Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 & 7 are completely done (those are what you'll see).
- Chapter 5 needs to be fixed. chapter 6 is half done.
- chapters 8 and 9 need to be designed
- the cover is designed and needs to be done.
the book itself, however, is completed :) even came up with an About the Author segment that i think will be nice, and will be punctuated by a really nice photograph from my very own photographer - i believe i posted it in my last entry. Think that will work? Credit will be given of course - should i point them to your flicker kerry? do you want to try your hand at professional photography if anybody asked?
Thoughts anyone???
Oh! to see close ups of those pictures, i based it on a pop window display, just click on the sample image. |
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| BOOM! Studios at San Diego |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|11:04 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | "Momma Don't Allow..." by the Austin Lounge Lizards | ] |
Here's a full roundup of what BOOM! Studios will be doing at Comic-Con in San Diego next week:
First off, here are the SDCC exclusives that will be on sale at the BOOM! booth (#2543) on the convention floor:
Kill Audio Preview Book by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert, and Mr. Sheldon ($5)
Kill Audio "monotone variant" vinyl figure ($40)
Farscape Volume 1: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning limited "Scorpius edition" hardcover by Rockne S. O'Bannon, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Tommy Patterson ($50)
The Muppet Show limited edition hardcover by Roger Langridge ($50)
The Incredibles: Family Matters limited edition hardcover by Mark Waid and Marcio Takara ($50)
Cars: The Rookie limited edition hardcover by Alan J. Porter and Albert Carreres ($50)
The Incredibles: Family Matters #1 C and D holofoils by Waid & Takara ($20)
Irredeemable #4 John Cassaday sketch variant by Mark Waid and Peter Krause ($10)
Here's the schedule of BOOM! signings and panels (everything at the BOOM! booth, #2543, unless indicated otherwise):
Wednesday night through Sunday afternoon: Keith R.A. DeCandido (Farscape), Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show), and Michael Alan Nelson (Fall of Cthulhu, Hexed) will be signing throughout the entire show.
Wednesday (preview night)
6-7pm: Disney Pixar signing with Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show), Alan J. Porter (Cars), and Mark Waid (The Incredibles).
7-8pm: Mark Waid signing (Irredeemable, The Incredibles, Potter's Field)
Thursday
11am-12pm: Disney Pixar signing with Langridge, Porter, and Waid
12-1pm: Mark Waid signing
12.30-1.30pm: "Indie Comics Marketing 101," with Chip Mosher (BOOM! Marketing Director) along with Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man), Heidi MacDonald (Publishers Weekly), and Sam Humphries (MySpace) [Room 4]
1.30-2.30pm: "Spotlight on Jerry Robinson," with Mark Waid interviewing legendary comics creator Robinson [Room 4]
3.30-4.30pm: "Digital Comics Now!" with Chip Mosher, along with Michael Murphey (iVerse), David Steinberger (comiXology), Rantz Hosley (LongBox), and Chris Folino (Catastrophic Comics) [Room 4]
4-5pm: "Spotlight on Gail Simone," with Mark Waid interviewing Wonder Woman's Simone [Room 5AB]
6-7pm: Mark Waid signing
9pm-whenever we fall down: BOOM! Drink Up, hosted by Mark Waid [Manchester Grand Hyatt Lobby Bar]
Friday
10.15-11.15am: "Farscape 10th Anniversary," with comics scripter Keith R.A. DeCandido and creator/executive producer Rockne S. O'Bannon, along with Brian Henson (executive producer), Ben Browder (John Crichton), and Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun) [Room 6BCF]
11am-12pm: Disney Pixar signing with Langridge, Porter, and Waid
1-2pm: "BOOM! Studios," with co-founder Andrew Cosby, managing editor Matt Gagnon, marketing director Chip Mosher, co-founder/publisher Ross Richie, and editor-in-chief Mark Waid [Room 32AB]
2-3pm: Mark Waid (Irredeemable) and Rockne S. O'Bannon & Keith R.A. DeCandido (Farscape) signing
3-4pm: Andrew Cosby and Ed Quinn (Eureka) signing
3-4.30pm: "Scribe Awards," with Keith R.A. DeCandido receiving a Grandmaster Award, along with Max Allan Collins (GI Joe), Stacia Deutsch (The Dark Knight: The Junior Novelization), Matt Forbeck (Mutant Chronicles), Robert Greenberger (Hellboy: The Lost Army), Nathan Long (Warhammer: Elfslayer), and James Rollins (Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade) [Room 4]
4-5pm: Claudio Sanchez (Kill Audio) signing
5-6pm: Mark Waid signing
Saturday
10-11am: Disney Pixar signing with Langridge, Porter, and Waid
11.30am-12.30pm: "Spotlight on Sheldon Moldoff," with Mark Waid interviewing "Shelly" Moldoff [Room 10]
1-2pm: Mark Waid signing
2.30-3.30pm: "Farscape Comics by BOOM! Studios," with editor Ian Brill, scripter Keith R.A. DeCandido, and creator/executive producer/plotter Rockne S. O'Bannon [Room 10]
3.45-4.45pm: Rockne S. O'Bannon and Keith R.A. DeCandido (Farscape) signing
4-5pm: Claudio Sanchez (Kill Audio) signing
5-6pm: Mark Waid signing
Sunday
10-11am: "The Muppet Show Comics by BOOM! Studios," with writer/artist Roger Langridge and surprise guests [Room 32AB]
11.30am-12.30pm: Disney Pixar signing with Langridge, Porter, and Waid
2-3pm: Mark Waid signing
2-3pm: "The Art of Pixar's Cars," with Alan J. Porter, along with Martin Arriola (Mattel), Ken Chang (Takefiveaday.com), and Ryan Gleason (Mattel) [Room 5AB]
So come on by the booth and by the panels and say hi! |
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| I will not put any friend on my list... |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|08:31 pm] |
Walter Cronkite died today. He's another on that was on my Dead Pool list. That's 3 I've got this year (Along with Phillip Jose Farmer and I think Farah Fawcett)
I was not expecting to do this well, though I've won these things again
Weird, I might win this one too, which is a morbid victory
Chris |
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| Walter Cronkite, RIP |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|10:58 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | "Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down" by Pete Seeger | ] |
And that's the way it was....
Walter Cronkite, the finest news anchor in the history of the world, has died at the age of 92. We will never see his like again.
Interestingly enough, the memory of him that comes to mind is one from six years ago, when I attended a dinner of the Heinlein Society at TorCon, the WorldCon in Toronto in 2003. One of the things they showed was an interview that Cronkite did with Heinlein in August 1969, shortly after Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon. The interview was depressing in hindsight, since none of the things Heinlein talked about came to pass, but it was still quite a thing to see.
Rest in peace, good sir. I always felt that, if there was an Almighty who had a male voice, it was Cronkite's. |
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| [travel] In which I dispense (very gentle) justice |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|03:30 pm] |
Unusually, I rented a car here in San Francisco. This is because ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_child is arriving in a few hours, and the witchmobile is a two-seater ride. I don't think my kid needs to cruise around the City by the Bay locked in the trunk of a Miata, if you know what I'm saying.
The Hertz counter at SFO was like a refugee camp. Actually, all the car rental places were. (It's a big area offsite with a common waiting room.) Hundreds of people in there, many slumped over their luggage, wailing babies, the whole business. Being a frequent traveler, I smugly whisked my way downstairs to the Gold counter. Where my name was not on the magic tote board, necessitating a not-so-smug trip inside where about twenty people were in line. (This is very unusual.)
As I finally got to the head of the line, perhaps thirty minutes after standing in it, two women walked in the door and right up to the clerk who was about to beckon me over. This irritated the heck out of me. I put a big smile on my face, stepped close to them, and in my best passive-aggressive sweet voice asked, "Excuse me, but were you in line in front of me?"
The older of the women gave me a sour look and said, "No, but we just have a question."
I said, "Ma'am, we all have questions. And we've been standing in that line back there a very long time waiting our turns."
She looked away from me, so I added, still very nicely, "Think how you'd feel if I did this to you after you'd been standing in line."
"We'll only be a minute," she said. Her friend was looking everywhere but at me, deeply embarrassed.
I told her, "Well, you do what you think is right, ma'am. Thank you for your consideration."
As they were leaving, after conducting a fairly complex transaction involving the second woman as a driver on the first woman's contract, I leaned close again and said, still in a calm voice with a smile, "I really appreciate your thoughtfulness."
The older woman mumbled an apology and they slunk out.
Obviously it did me no good — the clerked still helped them, line jumpers or no, and they weren't embarrassed enough to give it up, forcing me to wait another five minutes or so — but I hope like hell they were at least a little galled by their sense of entitlement.
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| [writing] Endurance progriss riport, day 33 |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|02:41 pm] |
Well, that's it. 2,900 words today in 90 minutes. First draft done at (a bizarrely short for me) 114,900 words. The whole novel is there, recognizably corresponding to the outline approved by arcaedia and casacorona. Ending needs work, but so do the beginning and the middle.
As mentioned before, I think I wrote short because Fred was running ahead of the cancer wavefront. If chemo goes well, I'll start revising sometime this fall, otherwise I'll wait til the spring and the end of chemo to revise. Either way I'll make deadline with plenty of time to spare.
I'll have more thoughts about process, manuscript length, what this implies for my upcoming revisions and everything else, after all this has had time to sift through my subconscious. For now, well, it's enough to be done.
( A final WIP )
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| Things I have learned today... |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|06:18 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | 03060 | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  drained | ] |
It's almost 90 degrees out. I admit I am and have always been a hot weather woosie. I'm not sure if Woosie is a word but I'm adding it to my lexicon. It means not running in terror or cowering but taking an intentional apathetic approach to something. For example I SHOULD go check the mail and I SHOULD go down the street and surprise visit a friend and invite him to Greely Park to watch a movie with me.. but I know that odds are, I'm not going to go to the movie on account of OMG It's Hot. Woosie. Woo-Sea. Also in common rotation now.. JIMP! (Ji** in my pants!) as in today at work Ivanaiva was wearing transparent pants (So not work appropriate.) and I Jimped so Nev suddenly realized "What's that? There's males that I have NOT flirted with? I must redeem that.. Right Now. In front of Paige.. In a complete 180 of my personality...MWahh ha ha ha.. that'll learn ya to diss my girlly book love."
Yeah. about that. Okay. "The Devil Wears Prada." 1. Why is Andrea working as a personal assistant to get a letter of recommendation to work at the New Yorker? PERSONAL ASSISTANT != Writer. 2. Even near the end of the book Miranda calls her Emily, Does she REALLY think that Miranda is going to write her a stellar letter of recommendation to work at the New Yorker as a writer. "Yes, Emily does a sufficient job of cutting in line at Starbucks for me." WOW HIRE THAT ONE. 3. for someone who wants to be a writer (columnist/journalist) you'd think that Andrea would.. I don't know.. write more.. or at least mention she's keeping a personal journal or a blog or writing ANYTHING having to do with writing.. which is the REASON she's allowing herself to be tortured. So she could be a writer! WRITE SOMETHING! 4 There are angles that the author could have taken to make Andrea's plight seem more real to me. For example she could have worked in a reason beyond a recommendation writer as motivation. We can all relate to having a hell job, but we have it or else we starve. Having the protagonist put up with all this insanity for a recommendation is just... hard to swallow. If she loves writing so much that she's doing this torture why isn't she more literary? 5. This book is VERY Het. Very het. Why the hell is it so popular with the femslash crowd? (warning: Link takes you to ALOT of femslash LJ coms. Quality not assured... because sometimes there's virgin guys writing femslash and it makes me want to headdesk so hard...but that's what ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) weepingcock is for)
So I found out today that while hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Hell COWERS when it comes to a woman and a book scorned. Sometimes it's best to shut up and enjoy your own flavor of guilty pleasure (mine is Fight Club in all it's Testosteroni and Cheese). So to sum up. If someone calls a book their guilty pleasure, it is immune. Period. Do NOT question it or spork it for a single breath. It will NEVER end with "well if you didn't like it, you could have quit reading it." never. end.
Today I also learned that those frozen foods like this Freebie.. are things that I can not make. Give me raw ingredients and I will make you an ugly masterpiece.. but give me something that you just heat and .. *cringe* Ugh. I wonder if this can be flushed down the toilet. I'm to much a woosie to go outside to throw out the trash.
Also. Finished watching Torchwood: Children of Earth.. I slilenty went to bed afterwords. I mean normally I'm quiet anyway. I don't talk to myself or even to my cat..... but I mean I went mentally silent. Which if you haven't guessed from reading this journal, doesn't happen often. So spoilers for Torchwood: CoE in comments.
Anyone else see it? It was like a slow motion train wreck with someone you care about in the passenger car. You know where it's going and all you can do is run in slow motion bellowing "nooooo..." I saw the ending coming so I was like NO NO NO! Please god don't let it go that route.. but did and my brain was static. |
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| Goo & Dark Water |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|03:16 pm] |
Unusual arctic goo on the ocean near Alaska - No one is quite sure what it is, except that its probably organic in nature
"It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department."
Okay, that just sounds like the beginning of a horror movie...(it's not actually eating the geese though, it was just brought in covered in goo).
It also reminds me vaguely of the Dark Water in the Pirates of Dark Water - which I'm still sad was never finished. Plus Tim Curry was one of the voice actors - how can you beat that?
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| progress... |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|01:31 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan | ] |
Got through all I'd previously written of Spectres faster than I expected--there was less revising than I'd feared. Next, I spend the weekend finishing it off....
Now, though, I'm off to meet suricattus and go see the H. Potter flick. |
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| Schott's Miscellany 16 July 2009 |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|10:37 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  awake | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "You Belong to Me" by Jim Byrnes | ] |
The first test nuclear device was exploded at Los Alamos, New Mexico (1945)
THE SHILL AND THE PROP
In U.S. casino terminology, a SHILL is a player (paid an hourly wage bythe house) who uses the house's money to drum up business by playing at slow tables. Any money made by the shill is returned to the house. In contrast, proposition players, or PROPS, play with their own money (while receiving a small wage), keeping any profits but shouldering their losses. Both shills and props work under the direction of the house staff, who will move them as required from game to game. In many casinos, strict rules exist governing how shills and props may play each game and requiring the house to identify the paid players if so requested.
One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
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| [travel] And so I am away (with bonus updatery) |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|02:02 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | books, calendula, california, cancer, child, conventions, family, green, personal, portland, travel | ] |
For those playing along with the takehome game version of "Where's Jay?", I'm flying out of Omaha this morning, via Denver, to San Francisco. I will meet up with calendula_witch this afternoon, and the_child will join us this evening.
Tomorrow is the two Borderlands Books events [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ], one for Green, the later one for Footprints.
Sunday we're catching the King Tut exhibit, then putting the_child on a plane home to her mother. I've got medical appointments Monday and Wednesday to firm up the second opinion on my cancer treatment plan, then I'm back to Portland on Thursday. Friday I'm off to Seattle for a reading and signing at University Books that night, followed by the Clarion West party, I believe for David Hartwell. I'll be bringing the_child to the UBooks event as well.
Back to Portland that Saturday for some family time with my visiting brother, then calendula_witch arrives that Sunday because I have two more cancer appointments the following week, including what we expect to be the chemo prescribing appointment in 7/27. At that point I'll find out if I can make it to Worldcon or not.
More as it develops.
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| [links] Link salad flies to California with a smile on its face |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|12:58 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | books, california, conventions, cool, culture, green, links, personal, polls, pubishing, reviews, science, tech | ] |
Don't miss the upcoming Borderlands Books events in San Francisco on 7/18: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
In the same vein, there's an open dinner in San Francisco next Monday: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
The blog subtitle poll
selfavowedgeek reviews Green [ Powell's | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Borders ]
More on steampunk from the Onion's AV Club — A summary of the history and current state of steampunk as literature.
Letters to Myself with a dead cute poll
1930 Shell Gas Station — When architecture meant something, damn it.
The Motor Behind the Fun — 60 horsepower to move 200 tons of steel. (Thanks to tetar.)
To Sleep, Perchance to Analyze — A very smart alarm clock. (Thanks to my Dad.)
Cryovolcanism on Charon? — Centauri Dreams with some more planetary science so cool it's icy.
?otD: Friday again?
7/17/2009
Body movement: n/a (travelling)
This morning's weigh-in: n/a (travelling)
Currently reading: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
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| a StarCraft Thursday |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|02:57 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Cold Sweat" by Jim Byrnes | ] |
Got some revision notes on Chapter 5 of Volume 1 of Ghost Academy, and continued going through what I've written of Spectres.
Also, did not get a deep-scale cleaning today -- got the appointments mixed up. Today was filling the two cavities on the left side of my mouth. Monday, they get the two cavities on the right. After that will be the deep-scale.
To bed........... |
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| Broken Arrow |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|09:22 pm] |
Netflix has Broken Arrow on instaview, and I’m remembering how much I love it.
- You have Travolta after his career picked up, but before he tipped over and went bugfuck nuts. *Right* before, actually. His performance is stylized, but I (just) still buy that he’s playing a character, not just some louder version of himself.
- You have Christian Slater after he grew past his baby face, was still young enough to be sexy, but before he turned into a clone of Jack Nicholson.
- His chemistry with Samantha Mathis is almost as good as it was in Pump Up The Volume.
- “What does a suspicious truck look like?” Oh, the innocence of the time, when reporting suspicious activity was only something wackaloons did.
- They’re worried about leaks coming from the hobbyist press. No internet, no bloggers, no ability to arrest folks on the grounds of national security. Seems like such a simple time.
- Also, humvees were only something you saw in the military.
- And Hale’s from Trenton, which always makes me smile.
- The soundtrack really kicks ass. It was my default for long distance driving in college, and my first intro to Hans Zimmer. (King of the bombast though he may be sometimes.)
- The cell phones are so big!
- Endangered dirt!
- Shooting at nukes is bad.
- Out thinking the bad guy is good, but you should really wait until *after* you’ve pulled your save before telling him, y’know?
- It’s an action movie, yeah, but the real plot is a cat and mouse / move and countermove game between Deakins and Hale. The rest is just nifty set dressing.
- Though if you view the movie though slash goggles, it’s one very big, messy break up fight.
- No, really. The soundtrack is just that damn good.
- Hale really does like smashing bad guy’s faces into things.
- And the end credits. Yup, one hell of a fun, macho movie.
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