Cherry Blossoms
My wife and I got up before dawn and went down to the Portland waterfront to snap pictures of the cherry blossoms. Did not get much drama from the sunrise due to the clouds settling along the horizon, but overall I’m pretty happy with how the morning light played with the blossoms.
Book Progress
Last month I sent out the first four chapters of Vampire Detective Agency: Double Date to a few test readers. When they gave a thumbs up, I went ahead and sent the rest of the first draft to them for reading. Initial feedback has been positive. Thus, I’ve begun the work of cleaning up my bad grammar and excising all my overused expressions. Apparently, I tend to use “chuckled” a lot when writing dialogue. This is the part of the writing process where the story gets fleshed out with all those little character moments that give joy to the process of reading the final book.
Please enjoy a sneak peek of the first (work-in-progress) paragraph of the book:
Anja was not a vampire, but she’d spent her whole life surrounded by them. That tends to happen when one’s blood is so life-giving that vampires give your kind a name, Hailjan. It used to seem silly to her that her blood had a unique name. Blood is just blood. Then she’d discovered that a drop of her blood was more valuable than gold in certain circles.
Shepherding Update
Work on the third and final SHEPHERDS book continues. I’ve got the outline and plotting in a good place now. The first three chapters are finally on the page, and I’m hoping to have a readable draft later this year. I never thought it would take so long to finish this trilogy, and I do apologize to everyone waiting to read how Cate’s journey ends.
More Of Me
Will be working on posting more to social media going forward. Gotta get those numbers up if I want to sell more books. Will endeavor to post something interesting, but always open to feedback.
Two Doctors One TV
This month’s anime binge watch was Apothecary Diaries. It reminds me a bit of the medical drama, House, mixed with a Korean period piece drama but with a main character who feels like Veronica Mars (season one Veronica, before they nerfed her skills to make it more dramatic). Only, it’s set in a fictional country inspired the Tang Dynasty. Brutally unflinching with how it portrays the treatment of servants and women in such a place, it still remains refreshingly optimistic. Highly recommend.
Another medical show, this one a comedy-drama, Best Medicine, also got binged by me and my wife this month. It feels like a throwback to older Fox dramas like Bones. It’s a remake of a British show, but with American comedy sensibilities. If you’ve been wanting a TV show that doesn’t feel like yet another prestige piece that’s chasing Emmy nominations, this is for you.
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