I’m not sure I’ve ever gone this long between blog posts. Because: busy! Yes, I say that all the time. But this busy: it’s been kind of transcendently busy.
So here is an attempt at a catch-up post. Of Good Things Only. There are a few Less Good Things. Which belong in a separate post.
(Will I make that separate post tomorrow? Or in a month? Only the fates know!)
Big Good Thing The First: Mark, who has always been super, duper busy, is now–and has been for the last month or so–super, duper busy on several super, duper exciting projects that also pay a decent living wage. (I know! We’re astonished too. And delighted.) Until yesterday, all these new projects were Seekrit. But now, one has been announced!
When we first heard about the Thimbleweed Park project on Kickstarter, we immediately backed it. Mark has worked with Ron and Gary before, loves them both to pieces, and thought this was a fantastic idea. Turns out they were super, duper excited to bring Mark on board…and so that happened. He is now upstairs drawing fabulous pictures all the live-long day.
Big Good Thing The Second: It’s less exciting to tell, because I don’t talk much about my clients, because nobody wants to know how sausage is made and of course all writing emerges from every writer’s brain utterly flawless and in no need of copy editing or proofreading, but…my plate continues to be full, and I continue to also be astonished and delighted by the fact that I get paid to read books. (and maybe even make them a little better!)
Other Big Good Things, in No Particular Order:
-The weather has been delightful, leading us to steal probably too many hours from this glut of work to dabble in the garden.
-I’m getting a tiny office in a few weeks! (pics-in-progress to come, oh yes indeed.)
-My new nephew is home from the NICU and doing great.
-I’m mastering new barbecue items practically daily.
(chicken, for example.)
-I’m finding time to squeeze in work on Queen & Tower, and it’s going really well.
-Neal Stephenson came to Powell’s! I haven’t started Seveneves yet, but I am so excited to.
–Chaz won a Lambda Award! And it’s such a good book. Well, all of Chaz’z books are Such Good. But this one! We have a poster of the cover art on our wall. You can totally judge this book by its cover.
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I know there must be more wonderful things in the last month. But this is probably as much as anyone wants to read, and the fish are clearing their throats and looking significantly at their watches, so I should bring this to a close, and go feed them. And resolve, as ever, to be a more faithful blogger. Right. Exactly that.
I am so delighted to learn about Mark joining the Thimbleweed Park project from your blog!
He is the best pixel artist in the world. Unfortunately, pixel art seemed to have died out as a sustainable profession long ago. This project is such an amazing opportunity to satisfy those (including me) who miss the exciting times of oldschool Lucasarts-style adventure games. Now that Mark is in it, how could anything go wrong with this game? Someone who can make EGA look like VGA (try looking up ‘Loom’ in some old computer magazine and you’ll see) will make this project shine way beyond its core audience. This is really great news. Now if someone submits the story to Slashdot, it will no doubt make headlines.
Thank you! Yes, he is an amazing artist–pixel and otherwise. And he’s having so much fun with this project already. I’ve passed your kind words along to him! 🙂