Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing.
Let's start with Blackmail, a book I've been working on lately. It's part of my private detective series that I don't really ever talk much about. This week, I believe I've finished two chapters and started in on a third. I'm finding that one night I'll write down a first take of the chapter and then the next night go back and edit it, adding here and substracting there. Currently, I'm at 23,287 words.
As promised, I did work on the querying but I didn't actually send one yet. Instead, I compared my current list of agents against previous queries. Even though the last time I queried this was ten years ago, a number which shocked me, I didn't want to get rejected again by someone who had already rejected it. Given there were two lists, that took up a good portion of the evening I had set aside for querying.
This week's podcast was a 20th Anniversary God of War Retrospective. I have never played these games but my sons had, so I basically sat back, asked a couple of questions, and then let them handle most of the podcast. There is apparently a lot to say. You can listen to it on our website here, where you can also find the other platforms it's on, or wait until Wednesday when it will be available on our YouTube channel and watch it here.
On the subject of Powers Squared, we're trying something new, at least for us. When we were at WonderCon, I noticed someone in Small Press had a monitor with videos playing. She was nice enough to share her secret setup, so we're going to try it at the next Con we go to, whenever that is. I think videos, which we already have, would be visually stimulating and might draw people to us.
Speaking of wanting to table again, I was having a wicked time getting through the WonderCon portal to sign up for next year. It was one of those circular jobs where it doesn't take you any place helpful. Even though I have an ID and password, that apparently wasn't right for this. So I tried to play the "forgot my password" game, but that didn't lead anywhere useful, giving me a User number that meant nothing. I contacted them and was able to get through to someone, who told me to go in as a new exhibitor and they would collate the requests. I guess we'll see.
My review of Mata Hari was the Saturday Morning Review on Trophy Unlocked. I'm currently working on one for Lili (1953), something we'd had on our DVR for ten years, as it turns out. I hope to finish it this week and then no idea when it will appear.
Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing and I'll see you back here next week.
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