Where Am I?
April 4th, 2026
Professionally, writing-wise, I am working on a few projects (including developing this website).
I’ve submitted queries for my most recently completed novel, Farthane, to about 30 agents, so far without any luck… I suspect Farthane is too long for a debut novel, but I’ll keep trying as I work on other projects.
I’m not going to start a new novel just yet, though I’ve taken notes on a couple of prospective works. Instead, I’m going to review some past pieces I’ve completed: screenplays, novels, and short stories. I’m going to revise the ones that I think are good, to hopefully make them great, and try to put them on the market. I’ll probably push Falling Leaves first. It has a lot of potential, I think, as a solid urban fantasy tale, but it needs a lot of work…
On the personal side, I’m currently reading The Body Thief, the fourth book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. So far, not bad, though a little slow… The previous novel in the series, The Queen of the Damned, was my favorite so far.
I’m also reading The Moonlit Path, a sourcebook for the 5E Werewolf: The Apocalypse TTRPG. Only a few pages in (just finished Wyrmtide, which was excellent), but I’m excited by what I see.
For my RPG friends, I’m working on a Starfinder campaign, and I like the way it’s going. We still have a couple sessions left on our current Pathfinder campaign, and next we’ll play a Call of Cthulhu campaign run by one of my close friends (I’m very excited! I tend to be the “forever GM,” so it’s always a treat to be a player). That should give me ample time to put together some material for the Starfinder game, which I’ve never played.
My wife and I just finished watching Season Two of Falling Skies, which is pretty good (imperfect, but enjoyable). We’ll probably watch the second season of One Piece next, and we have one more episode of Shrinking to watch. We also watch The Pitt as it airs, and we’ll probably start watching Season Two of Daredevil: Born Again. I’ve been rewatching Firefly at the gym (on the elliptical). Love that show, and I’m hoping against hope that the upcoming (🤞) show will do it justice.
We watched 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple last night. Bonkers, like all the Danny Boyle/ Alex Garland “28” films. It was just so-so for the first 3/4, but in the end I liked it. I’ve noticed that on their previous collaborations, my opinion changes at the last part of the movie. I loved the first half of 28 Days Later, but was meh on the last the whole bit at the army fortress. I enjoyed most of 28 Years Later, but I didn’t like the ending. My overall opinion of these films is positive, and I’m very much looking forward to the next one.
On the video game side, Hinterlands Studio finally released the fifth and final episode of the Wintermute story for The Long Dark. I’ve played countless hours of the game in Survival Mode (one of my favorite games of all time), but I held off on the Story Mode until it was complete. I’ve just started Episode Two.
And that’s where I am.
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