It's been quite a while since we've seen an update and I'm just wondering if the project has died a quiet death...

AP?  Ron?  Anyone?

Mike,
Thanks for asking. SR is in a place that hovers between life and death. Cryosleep?  My murdered computer situation from December is sort of resolved--at least thanks to Ron I have the Word files of the SR material that's already up on the SR site, and I have a new computer. Reconstructing my lost notes for the rest of the book is another story. I had hoped a recent two-week fishing vacation in Costa Rica would help me clear the mental decks, but it turned out to be the trip from Hell.  I won't go into many details, suffice it to say I went 12 days without a hot shower; and I now have a morbid aversion to dripping bat shit. I came back from "vacation" even more brain-constipated than when I left. So the honest answer is: I don't know what's going to happen with SR.

Weird to have made a living writing pulp fiction for so long, and now to be making a MUCH BETTER living not writing it. Got to say, the desperation that fueled my writing before (don't finish, don't eat) is gone.

Again, I appreciate your question, Mike. I wish I had a definitive answer.
AP

Posted By AP on 05 Apr 2010 04:31 PM
Weird to have made a living writing pulp fiction for so long, and now to be making a MUCH BETTER living not writing it. Got to say, the desperation that fueled my writing before (don't finish, don't eat) is gone.

Funny how that works...but I think it's pretty much a situation specific to Gold Eagle.

Posted By Jax2 on 07 Apr 2010 07:19 AM

Posted By AP on 05 Apr 2010 04:31 PM
Weird to have made a living writing pulp fiction for so long, and now to be making a MUCH BETTER living not writing it. Got to say, the desperation that fueled my writing before (don't finish, don't eat) is gone.

Funny how that works...but I think it's pretty much a situation specific to Gold Eagle.

Mark,
Do you mean the combination of the two? Crap pay and living hand to mouth?  To me that sounds like a Freelancer's Life (at a certain level), no matter the publisher. And there's a third "don't" to add to the mix: don't ever turn down work, no matter how impossible the deadline (because it might be your last).

How are you enjoying life post-GE?
AP

Posted By AP on 07 Apr 2010 10:38 AM Mark,
Do you mean the combination of the two? Crap pay and living hand to mouth?  To me that sounds like a Freelancer's Life (at a certain level), no matter the publisher. And there's a third "don't" to add to the mix: don't ever turn down work, no matter how impossible the deadline (because it might be your last).

How are you enjoying life post-GE?
AP

A fourth "don't" --at least in my experience--is don't take 'em at their word about anything.

well..whenever you get back to it....we will be waiting! glad you made it back alive from your trip!

Dan

Yea, I think the words : "a simple twist of fate" applies.

Hope things are going ok on your end!

Thanks for your interest. Things have definitely picked up at this end. The trip to UK and Italy end of last month cleared my head in a way that CR didn't. I'm readjusting the day job so I have time to work on original stuff, including SR. Essentially taking a cut in gross pay. So far it seems to be working out, but I'll have a clearer picture in a month, be able to see what I've accomplished writing-wise and what it actuallly cost me.

AP:
I do hope we haven't heard the last from Slaughter Realms. It's by far my favorite. I will never look at a Bloody Mary with the same indifference (to the celery stalk, of course). You have whetted our appetite for more vegetable mayhem and meinfretr, which in Old Norse means " stink-fart, harm-fart".  [You probably already knew that.]  Anyway, we miss you and hope you will be back with Chapter 6 soon. Enjoy the summer weather in the meantime.

Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.
The Cat: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

Posted By Mneme on 14 Jul 2010 04:08 AM
AP:
I do hope we haven't heard the last from Slaughter Realms. It's by far my favorite. I will never look at a Bloody Mary with the same indifference (to the celery stalk, of course). You have whetted our appetite for more vegetable mayhem and meinfretr, which in Old Norse means " stink-fart, harm-fart".  [You probably already knew that.]  Anyway, we miss you and hope you will be back with Chapter 6 soon. Enjoy the summer weather in the meantime.

Thanks for the comments. Sorry I still don't have my website e-mail functional--when I do all the backlog of e-mails will descend on me and I'll know what news I've missed. My brother is here for the opening of salmon fishing tomorrow. Hoping he can straighten out the e-mail--in return for a free, guided, all expense-paid, five-day fishing trip.

i enjoyed what i read immensly..hope to see more in the future...

Posted By JettaManDan on 15 Jun 2011 04:51 PM
i enjoyed what i read immensly..hope to see more in the future...

JMD,
Good to see you posting again.

SR/IV (first three chapters thereof) is a finalist in the 2011 Pacific Northwest Writers' Association Literary Contest sf/fantasy/horror category. Won't know if it won anything until August. I entered the contest to prod myself into finishing the book. Been working on a different original project for awhile, and will be done with that and moving back to SR/IV before the end of next month. Honest.
AP

very cool...PM or e-mail me and tell me about the new project...mine got a bit stalled..need to really finish my books...even if no one wants them..as you said, writing a book is an accomplishment!