Equipment, Outlines, and the New Year
I’ve spent the past few months building a device that isolates the space between my mouth and the microphone, blocks external sound, and ensures high quality voice recording. There’s nothing on the market like it, perhaps because it’s so damned heavy and expensive to make. However, it’s done, and it defies the normal expectations of…
More beta readers, more edits
After about a month, I have now incorporated another round of beta reader feedback. I have to have some mechanism of motivating me to make progress, and forcing myself to have others read it at a modest expense is just the right motivation to make good progress. Here are a list of things that have…
Progress
The following is the result of some concerted effort over a few evenings of revision, when the tasks for my “day job” are done. We’re getting there. Ignore the impenetrably indecipherable chapter titles. It’s all part of the plan (and evidence of sudden changes).
Day job returns
I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that yesterday I received notice of a revision request for a big paper I’ve been working on at a top strategic management journal. This is something that I worked on for three years before the initial submission, which was in July. At…
Prototypes of sound-dampening setup
It ain’t pretty, but here are some of the ideas I’ve been kicking around to muffle/eliminate extraneous noise while I am recording. First, we have the headgear. Not sure this is gonna fly. It’s really hot inside there—this is foam mattress topper material. Then, there is this little microphone box. This seems more promising. I…
I’m back
After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the text version. After hearing from…
Post-snowmageddon, back on the wagon
It’s been a few weeks since the power went out across much of Texas. The inside temperature of my home reached 32 degrees Fahrenheit and we had to jump ship to the inexplicably-always-on neighborhood of my in-laws, hoping that nothing broke in our absence. There was little we could do, in any case. Now that…
A hairy little issue about copyright
Who owns the art, the painter, or the purchaser? Today, I got a note back from the Copyright Office about whether I actually owned the copyrights to the art in my filing (which included the text I wrote and the art I commissioned and revised with freelance artists). Here’s what the copyright examiner stated: Copyright…
Chunking, sequencing, and filling in
( NOTE: This post pertains to “The Range: Cry of the Desert” — the first installment in the fantasy series I’m writing. ) As I work through this “second edition” of the book, I’m realizing a few things. First, it’s much clearer which emotional elements probably are not coming through to the reader. I’m working…
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