Including my session this morning, I estimate that I spent 30 hours working on the manuscript this weekend. Productive work, too. The thing is getting close to the point where I can print it out for the first time and go over it carefully. I have 13 days until deadline. Still waiting on a couple of interviews, but if they don’t happen, they don’t happen. Some of them may come in right at the wire.
Transcribing an interview with a slow-speaking person is great. I can almost type fast enough to keep up. With others, I’ve had to rewind and rescreen certain passages a bunch of times. This weekend I transcribed a 20 minute interview in about an hour. Others of similar length have taken me at least three or four hours.
It was almost warm enough to turn on the A/C this weekend, but I resisted. We have a cold front coming through, with a heavy rainstorm, tomorrow.
When the Night Comes Down, the anthology that contains 4-5 works each from myself, Joseph D’Lacey, Bob Weinberg and Nate Kenyon, is now available as an eBook. There’s a Kindle version from Amazon and a Nook version from B&N. My four stories are “Silvery Moon,” “Knock ‘Em Dead,” “Something In Store,” and “Purgatory Noir.” These Dark Arts books are a great way to sample an author, as you get several diverse tales, all for one low, low price.
We watched the first two episodes of Season 4 of The Sopranos this weekend. Adriana is in a bind. Last night I watched Amazing Race while working on other things. I thought for a moment that the Border Patrol agents had forgotten their gnome at the curling rink, but that was just a lingering camera shot, I guess. I felt bad for the teams that went to the wrong castle, stood in line and paid for admission. I also thought that the gingerbread challenge was going to be complicated by the fact that it was snowing, but I guess the pieces weren’t covered up that much.
