Hi everyone. Well, my two biggest tasks right now, my two biggest concerns are one, to get ready to make my second short film, and two, to release the print version of my latest novel, Past Imperfect. It’s up on Amazon [and Barnes & Noble and Kobo] now. I published it through PublishDrive and was able to get it on Amazon that way. So there’s no reason to go through KDP or deal with Amazon directly. So having said that, Amazon has called it the PublishDrive Edition. Okay, whatever you want to call it. It’s still there, whatever it is. PublishDrive edition or first edition, whatever you want to call it.
The first print edition should hopefully be out soon. I’m still waiting for the formatted file. I don’t particularly like the way Vellum does stuff. I’m willing to use Vellum for eBooks, but I don’t particularly like their print set up. It looks ever so slightly unprofessional, unless you’re good at doing things like inserting pages here and there and know where to insert them. And I just don’t really want to deal with that. I would rather outsource that to somebody else. That’s just plain fact. And so I am waiting on that file.
But having said that, I mean, I’m feeling more optimistic that we can actually do this film on September 1st, because for a while there I wasn’t sure I had a 1st AD. And not having a 1st AD, if you’re a newbie director like me, that’s just courting disaster when you’re working on a film with this many people. And it’s not that many people. It’s like a crew of four or five, depending on who you count. And I think there’s like four or five department heads. I’m not counting. I’m not going to do that. I have a set decorator helping me out. I’ve got a set to set up, a dorm room. And so we’ve been preparing for that and been doing a lot of buying from Walmart lately.
Not excessive, but it’s a reasonable budget for what we’re doing. So in the meantime, I am still reading books. I’m reading this, which I’m enjoying. It is very interesting to see the way Bond is depicted in this book and the way M is depicted in this book. That’s all I’ll say. The end.
And Moneypenny, of course. And then we have Walter Mosley, who I just adore. I swear reading this book is like reliving a part of history that I wish, I just don’t even want to relive. I think he set it in the ’60s or ’70s, I think it’s the ’60s. I’m trying to remember. It’s in that area. It’s in that particular neighborhood in terms of things are changing. The civil rights movement has come along and Miranda has been decided and so many changes are taking place. It’s really a tumultuous time for many people. And I was just a kid growing up during that time. And it was tumultuous even for me. So yeah, it was not a really good time to grow up, where I was growing up especially. So yeah, Walter Mosley always just, I can feel his writing in my gut. It’s like, oh yes, yes. I know. I know. And yeah, it was a tough time.
But he’s always worth reading, I think. It’s more than just the lyrical jazz-like quality that everybody talks about. His writing is like that, yes. But it’s the reality that he depicts in here, the nuanced characters. That’s what this book is all about. It’s about Easy’s struggle to adapt to changing times. And yeah, the times they have been a’changing. It seems like all my life. Okay, that’s it for me. And I shall be seeing you. Take care.
You can find Past Imperfect here and here.
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