Hello, my lovelies! Friday is nearly upon us. I don’t really
have much to talk about but I thought I should stop in anyway.
Current projects: Devil in the Branch book release on
Tuesday. I didn’t forget about it this time. Are you proud of me? I am. I lost
track of my days when White Wyrm came out. That thing snuck up on me. LOL
All I need to do is some formatting and Devil is ready to go!
I’m also working on a read-through for Pestilence. I’m
really in love with that book, which is a dangerous way to feel when you’re
trying to find the flaws.
Off the subject of books, I have a couple of awesome movie
trailers I want to share.
The first one is for Wreck it Ralph. I love this for retro
gaming goodness. I can’t wait to see it. The second trailer, the one for Robot
and Frank, looks promising.
Today I was reading through the remix project and I discovered that somehow like 200 words or so had vanished from the manuscript. It’s weird because I have no idea how or why they disappeared. Luckily I still had a hard copy printout of the previous version, so all I had to do was find the corresponding page and type the missing part back in. I’m just glad that I hadn’t taken the pages to the recycle bin yet. Yay procrastination!
Ok. Guess what. No…not chicken butt. Book trailer update! I have completed the flower animation. I have also resolved the problem of the crap-ass picture quality.
Flash animation does not convert to avi format well, which is why the video looked blurry or grainy or whatever the first time I put it up on the blog. The problem was even worse when I converted the completed animation to avi. It was so bad that when I tried to play it on full screen, the flowers looked like straight up 8-bit graphics. After working so long on the thing, the bad picture made me want to cry.
But I did not cry. I looked for and eventually found a solution. The conversion from Flash to Quicktime (mov) went much smoother.
I haven’t made the final adjustments to the timing of the flowers yet. The roses will start before the rest of the foliage, with the exception of the grass blades. There will also be words in the middle, of course. The flowers, etc are just the border.
I love it when people like what I write, especially strangers because they really have no perceived obligation to say nice things. This really awesome, sweet review from someone on the Barnes and Noble website literally made me blush. I had to post it. Reviews are hard to come by for me, and this one is pretty kickass. If I could find this person, I would hug them.
Oh, this is for Like Clockwork & A Tangled Mind. I should probably include that tidbit of info.
I am so saving a screenshot. _________________________ Hey, want some free reading? Check out the fiction freebie page on this very blog! There you shall find links to two free ebooks on Smashwords and novel excerpts on Scribd.
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