Monday, January 13, 2003
Yesterday, I debated with myself, and with Thryn and Jennifer, whether or not this journal should continue to go by the name of Low Red Moon Journal. After all, I said, I finished the book way back in August, and sold it, and now I'm writing another, so, shouldn't this become the Murder of Angels Journal, or maybe simply Caitlín R. Kiernan's Journal. They agreed with me. Then I thought, but, there's still much of the business of Low Red Moon ahead of me, the business of the book — the editorial letter and subsequent revisions, the advance reading copies going out to reviewers, the advance reviews, the book's publication sometime around November 2003, and so on and so forth. Lots of juicy stuff still to come, directly relating to and necessary for a comprehensive understanding of The Birth of a Novel. So, I finally argued myself into hanging onto to the old title for now, even though a new book is in the works. I figure people will figure it out. Or they won't. One way or the other.
Yesterday was promising. I wrote over 1,200 words on the prologue (finishing it) of MOA in only a couple of hours. I must have found a spark somewhere on one of those albums (see 1/12/03). Now I just have to repeat that feat, or something similar, today. If I do it a week straight, I'll know that I'm up and running again. Of course, it's not just the novel. It's the chainsaw and the kitten. Actually, unless the kitten ("The Rose Garden") gets its ass in gear, it may have to be temporarily swapped out for a pretty green bottle (my story for the absinthe anthology). A chainsaw and a green bottle. That doesn't have the same ring to it. Yes, I'm prattling.
The "g" key is acting up less today.
SpookyCon is over. I missed it. But, with luck, there's SpookyCon 2 in July. I mean, damn. I named the damned convention and didn't even get to attend! Thryn and I were to have spent this week just hanging out in San Francisco, enjoying the sights and doing some research for MOA (the beginning of which is set in SF).
Oh. We're gearing up for another big eBay auction. It'll be run under the seller name "Spookydooky" (Jennifer's account) and will include copies of just about everything I've published (half the utility room here is filled with comp copies of my books and we need the space for, well, utilities), and a few surprises — maybe a couple of actual manuscripts, a few advance reading copies, stuff like that. I'll let you know when it starts.
Now I go to juggle . . .
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