We’ll start the New Year off right by sending out a query to a publishing company regarding their intention to acquire novel-length fiction based on existing IP in-development. The answer is a likely ‘no’ and a possible ‘get back to us next year’ given development life-cycles, the shite economy and a paradigm shift in stratagem [...]
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Surviving.
Raise up Daedalus on clockwork wings, tether da Vinci’s bones with mylar strings, set the night afire with JP-5, and watch the pale Moon burn. A couple of pics taken at the barn today — in prep for making the adoption lifebook (because there are very few picture of me running about the wilds…): Grooming instructions: My Liztm does all her own stunts: Ponies by dusk: Next semester’s school schedule as follows: Freshman Composition II (With the same instructor as I had for Intro to Lit — I expect a thorough beat-down and I’m looking forward to it.) Honors British Lit from 1800 Survey of American Lit to 1800 (Taken at a local 4 yr campus with a professor recommended by my Lit prof.) Spanish [...] Where are all the black/African-American protagonists in SFF? Covers are seriously lacking in characters of color… I’ve seen a minor resurgence in black literature in the last 4 or 5 years and there seemed to have been a fairly strong black romance revival that is struggling to survive now…but… genre? Notsomuch. I can name a handful [...] Okay. So I need to make a lifebook. This will be a biographical narrative (with pictures—more like a scrapbook) about me and my life and life with my Liztm. It’s the first thing a child’s caseworker will see and likely the first thing a prospective adoptee child will see. I’m fookin’ stuck. Talk about writers block — and [...] After several years now of , “Jim just left a few minutes ago…you just missed him,” I finally had the opportunity to meet in the flesh. Late lunch was had with him and Liz (my Liztm, there was talk of much horsepower and horse power. Now suffering from sugar rush. Liz and I finished our adoptive parenting (or BRIDGE Resource Family) training tonight. 21 hours of resource parent training and 6 hours of behavioral crisis management training. Our last class was a live panel — I had hoped for more people on the panel — but was grateful for the two that did show up [...] A couple of other slam poetry pieces that I really liked: Tahani Salah – “Hate” Zora Howard – “Bi-Racial Hair” (the treble gets a little high from the mic reverb on this one) |
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