It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Eleven years after it was first published, The Road to the Dark Tower continues to sell, and twice a year I get an earnings statement from my agent. These now come with royalty checks, including the one I received yesterday, since the book earned out its advance a while back. I’m always interested in the ratio of physical copies to ebooks, which is about 25:1 over the lifespan of the book.
I hear that the first physical copies of the CD limited edition of The Dark Tower Companion have been seen in the wild. I haven’t received my copies yet, but I expect I will before long.
I sold another short story today. The anthology in which it will appear hasn’t been announced yet, so I can only “vague-book” about it, but it’s a story I first wrote for another themed anthology that didn’t make the cut. I only sent it out once or twice after that, but I like the tale a lot and I’m glad it’s going to make it into print in 2016.
Last night we watched Birdman, the Michael Keaton film. I’d seen it before, but only as an in-flight feature and with subtitles since I didn’t have earphones, so it was a little like seeing and hearing it for the first time. It’s equally impressive on second viewing. It’s a very strange film, with its long tracking shots that essentially make the movie one continuous timestream. Even the nights are shown, though in fast-forward/time-lapse. It makes me wonder what kind of drama goes on backstage (or behind the scenes) on any given theatrical production or movie set. As the actors are interacting, what else is going on in their heads.
