Week 7 of 2018
Greetings all
I’m making my preparations for Planet Comicon. I hope to see all of you in the KC area there to join us. I’ll be at booth 2444, and it should be a great time. This is my third year there, and I’ve really enjoyed it.
There’s been a lot of navigating government websites this past week as I deal with state sales tax stuff. It always feels like a major accomplishment when I actually manage to get something tax related done. The behind the scenes stuff of being a writer is probably the worst thing.
Aside from imposter syndrome, which is endemic to us, I think.
Anyway, I got lots of stuff done on that side of things, as well as a goodly amount of writing. The breakthrough in Brief Is My Flame is coming, as I have my characters in places where things are bursting to happen.
I have also found out that I think I was a Jewish mother in a past life. I do most of the cooking around here, since I’m home writing during the day while my sweetie goes off to her 9 to 5 job. The only real problem is that I make too much food for her.
We didn’t do anything tonight for Valentine’s because she has a work project she is focused on and we decided to do something fun and whimsical when it’s complete. Still, I bought flowers and made steaks. However, I bought about three times the amount of steak she, I, and her daughter can eat. Yes, the steaks were high.
There are, I suppose, worse problems.
Current Playlist Song: This week’s song is the Olympic Theme, which is a fantastic song, actually.
Quote of the Week
Of course, the Winter Olympics are going on. I have them on in the background pretty much all the time. There are always great scenes of raw emotion as athletes give everything they got. Chloe Kim and Shaun White have been my favorites so far, as has the Matt Hamilton, the curler with the great mustache. Yeah, I love curling. It’s such a fun game to figure out the angles.
But the Winter Olympics are always defined for me by these words, from one of the most powerful moments in my life.
“Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
– Al Michaels
News and Works in Progress
- TAV (1144)
- AFS (2681)
- Brief Is My Flame (38567)
Recent Blog Posts and Wiki Additions
- Lots of additions to the 4HU Wiki, especially in the area of alien races
- Tomas Bauer: http://robhowell.org/shijuren/Tomas+Bauer
- Nicolas Benedekt: http://robhowell.org/shijuren/Nicolas+Benedekt
Upcoming Events
- 16-18 February, Planet Comicon, Kansas City, MO
http://planetcomicon.com/ - 10-18 March, Gulf Wars, Lumberton, MO
http://www.gulfwars.org/
Spotlight
Today’s Weight: 386.8
Updated Word Count: 13,335
Shijuren Wiki: 738 entries
Four Horsemen Wiki: 133 entries
Let me know if you have any suggestions on the website, this email, or cool story ideas at rob@robhowell.org. Especially let me know of suggestions you have for the Spotlight section.
Have a great week, everyone.
Author of the Shijuren-series of novels
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- A Lake Most Deep (Edward, Book 1)
- The Eyes of a Doll (Edward, Book 2)
- Where Now the Rider (Edward, Book 3)
- I Am a Wondrous Thing (The Kreisens, Book 1)
- Brief Is My Flame (The Kreisens, Book 2) Forthcoming 2018
- None Call Me Mother (The Kreisens, Book 3) Forthcoming 2018
- “Where Enemies Sit” in For a Few Credits More (The Four Horsemen Universe)
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