http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog just a fellow mainly writing about writing (also demons &c.) Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:49:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So last November I completely wrecked myself with all the writing. In the end I finished Locks of Clay, but to the detriment of pretty much everything else. I did my job, I fed my dogs, I wrote, I stopped sleeping, and that was about it.  Didn't really have the ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/long-time-blog/ Well if the word calendar on the right is still functioning, you can see I've managed to stay on track all week, hitting 40,000 words so far. And Locks of Clay is coming along pretty nicely. I had wanted to do some extensive plotting ahead of time, but one thing lead ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/making-progress-2/ So just like every year, the nanowrimo site has been down and out for the last two days. The widget I put up here in the sidebar to track my progress is on the fritz too. Rest assured I did NOT write zero words yesterday (in fact I wrote a ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/broken/ So I got my hands on the new cover art for Skeleton Army today, and personally I think it looks pretty great. Huge recommendation to the guy I hired to do it, Arthur Wang. Link to his elance page, which has some examples of his work. He was great to ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/cover-art/ With October half over and National Novel Writing Month only a few weeks away, I added a new widget to the sidebar. Over the course of November it will track my progress as I write the sequel to Skeleton Army. Watch in awe as I drop a novel in a month ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/nanowrimo/ I found a fun tool called "library thing" which allows you to input and manage your library of books. I mean we all like to read, right? To the right you can see I stuck a little script widget that will pull random books from my personal library, if you're interested ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/librarything/ So I got two puppies this summer, and ever since they've been engaged in a slow campaign of destroying everything I own. A little over a month ago they broke BOTH of my laptops by knocking them off end tables.  The HP has a busted hinge (which I guess isn't ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/laptops-puppies/ A lot of stuff coming up real quickly: last week I hired an artist to do the cover art for Skeleton Army, today or tomorrow I'm sending off the manuscript to my editor for a run-through, couple weeks and nanowrimo will be upon us (and with it, the writing of ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/deeper/ So the nanowrimo webpage is scheduled to go down soon, only to emerge triumphant on 1 October, stripped clean and ready to go.  A month after that and the madness will start again. If you're unfamiliar, nano is essentially an event where tens (hundreds?) of thousands of enthusiastic folks from all ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/noveling-month-approaches/ This weekend I settled on an editor. In addition to providing editorial services he also maintains a blog in which he discusses different topics relating to the publishing industry and writing in general, in addition to posting book reviews &c. From reading the blog posts and conversing with ... http://www.rooseveltbookpublishers.com/blog/making-progress/