Coming in 2013…

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Did you know there’s a new Star Trek film coming out next spring? Read about it here: CLICK THIS. It’s called Star Trek Into Darkness, which is so cute I nearly choked.

I’m marginally excited. About 12 years ago, the powers that be at Star Trek decided they were tired of inventing the future and instead decided to cannibalize their own past. So they made a TV show called Enterprise. Later, they continued to ride the origins story bandwagon and came out with the frustratingly titled film Star Trek. Now there’s just gonna be more of the same from that alternate (= less good) timeline.

Here’s an idea: How about going farther ahead in time, you know, past the time of Picard and Janeway and that soap opera with Odo and Quark and giving us a new batch of heroes to follow? ‘Cause then I, for one, would be standing in line to see that flick.

Thursday, 25 October 2012

 Here’s the tentative cover for my upcoming book:

I think it will be tweaked a little bit, but this is pretty much what the cover’s gonna look like. Inside, there will be 24 chapters, plus an appendix, table of contents, acknowledgements section, five or six photos, and about 200 end notes. Right now I’m hard at work editing (mostly editing out) what the editors feel should be axed. The book is definitely too long, and I am not hurt in the least to be leaving plenty of stuff on the cutting room floor. I’ve actually removed entire people from the book – which is kind of funny, really. It’s like removing people from my life but I need to remember that it’s not my entire life story – just the story of being a Witness.

If you’re one of the four or five people who enjoy reading this blog, I hope you’ll buy a copy of the book one day. You, or someone you know, may be in the book (besides me and my wife, of course). Heck, I’ll even sign it at no extra charge (assuming it’s a copy you bought, and not one you rented from the library).

Friday, 26 October 2012
Here’s Owen at the corner drug store this afternoon:

Hey, look! Why does he have both an ice cream cone and a root beer float?

Well, the ice cream is what we buy every Friday after school. The float, meanwhile, is fortuitous because a new employee was being trained in on how to use the soda fountain, and after they made a float, the lady who’s been working there for a while said, “Do you guys want this? Otherwise we gotta throw it out.” So we gobbled it up. Quite literally, actually.

This evening I participated in a book reading at Valley Books in Stillwater.

Here’s the front table that greeted me upon entering:

How awesome is that?

About twenty people attended the reading, which accounted for standing room only in this tiny store. A couple of people just walked in off the street, and a few people came due to reading about the event online. Michelle Huber, meanwhile (seen reading her essay in the photo below), had seven guests in attendance.
I gotta say, I’m jealous. How does she get seven – seven! – people off their asses to come and support her at a literary event in Stillwater? I think seven represents the total number of people that have come to support me in all my author readings, ever. Combined. I’m thinking of stealing Michelle’s friends from her.