Okay, so… the Van Damme .gif has some competition now.

I spent a few minutes yesterday talking with my artist friend about the cover for the book, which was sorta fascinating.  It entertains me that he has to read the thing now.  I have someone who has to read my book for his job.  I find that funny.  Anyway, there was talk of photo reference for certain things and he asked me if I had any strong ideas about what the characters looked like beyond what was on the page (mostly no, but I was picturing DJ Qualls every time I wrote about one of the characters).  He’s gonna read the book and then work up some sketches and we’ll go from there.

Let’s see… what happened today?  Not much out of the ordinary, actually, other than keeping a few of my Algebra kids through their seventh hour class (normally my prep) to coach them through a missed/failed test and then discovering the hard way that my brain goes directly to shit last hour on Friday.  Directly, horribly, painfully.  I am not sure I actually managed to teach anyone anything useful.  Lucky for them, I was on my game during their actual class, but the tutoring session… coulda been more tutory, I think.

I am seriously thinking about polling that class about the next book.  I’ve considered doing something with a YA tilt to it; it’s not like I don’t have access to lots of middle school students to bounce ideas off of, but on the other hand I’m self-publishing and I suspect many of them don’t do ebooks.  Which, actually, is probably something I should ask them. Hmm.  There’s also the minor detail where telling them that I’m writing a book using some of their input will probably lead to them wanting to read said book, which kinda runs counter to deliberately creating a pen name so that they can’t find me.  Probably ought not to spoil the whole point of the thing before I even do anything with it.

…yeah, that’s what I’ve got right now.  It was a long week.  I’ll try to be inspiring or at least interesting in the next post.  🙂