august roundup: the slowening
Aug. 30th, 2011 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwoxJuly and August have been strange months for me, choc-a-bloc with writing-and-live-thwarting happenings. Primary among them have been vacations -- a couple weeks at a beachfront house on Lake Huron rented by my in-laws, a weekend getaway to my aunt and uncle's cottage on Torch Lake, plus a day trip to several wineries in southwestern Michigan. Yes, I can just hear your tiny violins playing now. But it did manage to put me off my game for most of the summer, and I'm just now getting on track for my fall plans.
I have managed to do some things, though, most of which are detailed on my writerly blog. I've been working on a book trailer for Brutal Light, messing about with the Joomla template for (and otherwise fussin' around on) my site, as detailed in this blog post and later updated and corrected in this one. I posted some short reviews of recent books I've liked -- James L. Grant's Velan the Reticent, Tim Marquitz's Armageddon Bound, and Naomi Clark's Wild. And I submitted a couple short stories to different markets. So I haven't been completely sloth-like, see.
On the homefront, I've been helping out my wife with the charitable event, Showcase 4 Sudan, an art exhibit/sale at Madonna University with all proceeds going to Bridges for Sudan. If you're an artist and want to donate a piece (painting, sketch, or other created item -- it doesn't have to be related to Sudan) to be displayed/sold, she's accepting them up through September 24th. If you're in the area (Livonia, Michigan) on October 1st, please stop in and see the art, view the showing of Guisma's Story, maybe buy an art piece, or just donate to the cause. (Questions? Send them to her at showcase4sudan (at) earthlink (dot) net, or directly to her on Facebook.)
Back to my plans. Who all is going to Conclave in October? I'll be there (as an attendee, and depositor of fliers promoting the novel)... my real name will be on my badge, so if you see me, make happy welcome noises!
Also, I'm on Google+ now, for those who want to encircle me. (And I have invites, for those of you not on who want on.) And apparently I'm still on Orkut. I'd forgotten that even existed... and I'm going to go back to forgetting, starting... now.
Aside from that... it's just been day-to-day for me. Watchin' movies, spoiling the kitty, keeping up with the exercise, losing some weight, reflecting on how politics these days is increasingly looking and sounding like Tom Waits's 'In the Colosseum'. How's by you?
I have managed to do some things, though, most of which are detailed on my writerly blog. I've been working on a book trailer for Brutal Light, messing about with the Joomla template for (and otherwise fussin' around on) my site, as detailed in this blog post and later updated and corrected in this one. I posted some short reviews of recent books I've liked -- James L. Grant's Velan the Reticent, Tim Marquitz's Armageddon Bound, and Naomi Clark's Wild. And I submitted a couple short stories to different markets. So I haven't been completely sloth-like, see.
On the homefront, I've been helping out my wife with the charitable event, Showcase 4 Sudan, an art exhibit/sale at Madonna University with all proceeds going to Bridges for Sudan. If you're an artist and want to donate a piece (painting, sketch, or other created item -- it doesn't have to be related to Sudan) to be displayed/sold, she's accepting them up through September 24th. If you're in the area (Livonia, Michigan) on October 1st, please stop in and see the art, view the showing of Guisma's Story, maybe buy an art piece, or just donate to the cause. (Questions? Send them to her at showcase4sudan (at) earthlink (dot) net, or directly to her on Facebook.)
Back to my plans. Who all is going to Conclave in October? I'll be there (as an attendee, and depositor of fliers promoting the novel)... my real name will be on my badge, so if you see me, make happy welcome noises!
Also, I'm on Google+ now, for those who want to encircle me. (And I have invites, for those of you not on who want on.) And apparently I'm still on Orkut. I'd forgotten that even existed... and I'm going to go back to forgetting, starting... now.
Aside from that... it's just been day-to-day for me. Watchin' movies, spoiling the kitty, keeping up with the exercise, losing some weight, reflecting on how politics these days is increasingly looking and sounding like Tom Waits's 'In the Colosseum'. How's by you?