One Honest Indie

“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” ― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

May the Fourth Update

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Still carrying happy memories of watching Star Wars back in the day. 🙂

Hi. Yeah. I think what I’m trying to do today is talk a little bit about quality of life, how to live your life happily, even if you have awful things you have to deal with or bad things happen. Because believe me, dealing with dystonia for the last 20-some years has not been easy. So I have managed, and I manage to see people now and then. That’s nice when I can do that. I’ve tried to be more social lately. I’ve tried to go out and do more book signings lately.

I’ve tried to … I’m now directing the second short film or will be. I’m still in the process, the pre-production process of doing the readings and doing the rehearsal and doing … all of a sudden, I still need to get some props. I’m like, “Oh my God, it’s May and I was hoping to do this in June and I’m not sure that’s going to be possible. And I don’t know how quickly people can … “

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This Indie Author’s Life

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Hi. Yeah. It’s been a long time since I’ve actually talked about what I’m doing. Okay. What am I doing these days? I just finished work on the third Erica Jensen mystery, which I hope will come out on May, whenever Memorial Day is. Don’t even know. Yeah, end of May, sometime around then. Around Memorial Day. And what else am I doing? Oh yeah, I’m trying to get a production meeting together for the second film that I’m going to be directing because as you may know, those of you who might actually pay attention to what I’m saying or read what I write, I do screenwriting now and have been doing that for quite a while, it feels like. Actually, it feels like a short time, but it’s been quite a while actually. I shudder to think of how much time has passed while I’ve been doing this because I got to tell you, screenwriting is no easy path to take and has become even less easy with the passage of time and the contraction of the industry.

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One (Relatively) Internet-Free Week Later

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Cappuccino in Santa Fe. (Translation: We loved him, because he, because he loved us first.)

Hi. Yes. I just got back actually from an internet-free week (other than using Google Maps to get around) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Want the proof? Look what I’ve got.

I love getting the local paper whenever I go somewhere. I mean, I just like looking at a real newspaper, which unfortunately we no longer subscribe to a real newspaper in terms of real this way. But I do think that this newspaper is much better than the Washington Post in its own way, because they actually cover local news. And the big local story, it seems, is selling New Mexico on Jupiter. And that does not refer to the planet, by the way. “Backers of Doña Ana data center project undertake statewide public relations push amid growing opposition.” Basically, these people, this company wants to set up a data center, a great big data center somewhere in the Santa Fe area in New Mexico.

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Where I’m At Now

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Hey, hi. How you doing? I guess you could call this a life update. There were auditions this weekend for the short film that I’m making called “Surprise,” and it’s just amazing how much talent there is in this area. Acting talent, writing talent, filming talent, you name it, it’s there. Anyway, I posed a question at some point on Substack, I guess. I did it on Patreon, too, I think. About what is it that you would like me to provide?

What are you looking for? What sort of things do you feel you need to know more about in general? Do you want more bonus content for my podcast? Do you want me to provide advice? I’ve got decades of experience at this point with writing and with dealing with the whole publishing world and dealing now with the filmmaking world, which are very interesting and different. But anyway, be that as it may.

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