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Designers & Dragons is Done (Again)
Oct. 9th, 2014 12:09 amSo we hit another major milestone on Designers & Dragons on Monday. Adam and I worked through the final errors in the '00s book, and afterward he sent everything off to Fred to send off in to the printers. And, as of now, I believe the book is at the printers and someone should be getting proofs soon to look at.
The Monday work was a little more stressful than I would have liked, as it ended up being a little last minute, but so it goes sometimes when you have people scattered across multiple countries each working their own schedule. Virtual work has plenty of advantages to.
This theoretically means that the main books are ready to go. However, I have at least two other major milestones on my schedule: (1) finishing the work for the Platinum Dragon PDF we're producing, which I have scheduled to be done on November 2, and which is well on its way already; and (2) signing piles of books, presumably in December.
So, I'll be able to announce I'm done a few more times.
There are other projects in the offing.
Chris and I have a largely done book on co-op game design. We're not sure on its audience and thus where we can place it with a publisher, but it's a cool, big tome of my writing on a very different topic.
I've also been working on a book about Michael Moorcock's multiverse that I think reflects my Designers & Dragons writing style. I'd hoped to finish it this year, but it's required reading most or all of his books, and that turned out to not be a rational goal for a year. But, it'll be well along by the end of the year, and hopefully I'll be able to finish it in 2015 when there's still a publisher (Gollancz) who has most of his books in print.
And then there's more Designers & Dragons to think about. The Kickstarter was successful enough that I think there's a strong audience for more books, but I'm going to put off thinking about that until I've really finished all the final tasks for Designers & Dragons. So, end of the year.
Otherwise, life goes on.
We had a heat wave over the last several days, which kept it quite hot. The first couple of weeks of October are very frequently our hottest times of the year here in Berkeley.
I biked out on the Bay Bridge again during out hot Saturday as I thought it'd be cool right on the Bay (and I was right). It was fun to see the old Bay Bridge in partial deconstruction, and the views through the gap in the old bridge are breath-taking.
I'd been thinking about going out to San Francisco and visiting a new museum in the Presidio, but opted out due to a huge concert in Golden Gate Park that I feared would jam the BART trains, making it hard to get my bike there and back; maybe this coming Columbian weekend instead.
And I've been taking it easy yesterday and today after the stressful Monday. Yesterday, after the work day, Kimberly and I went out for some dinner together, and then I sat on my butt all evening reading, which is a huge luxury that I almost never do. Then today I went to my regular gaming at Endgame, but didn't try to squeeze in some work when I got home (unless this journal entry counts). I'll get back to my regular schedule of evening work tomorrow or Friday. Mostly to the final Designers & Dragons platinum article as I've cleared my schedule of WotC history articles for the indefinite future and I don't have any DnDClassics articles due until November.
The Monday work was a little more stressful than I would have liked, as it ended up being a little last minute, but so it goes sometimes when you have people scattered across multiple countries each working their own schedule. Virtual work has plenty of advantages to.
This theoretically means that the main books are ready to go. However, I have at least two other major milestones on my schedule: (1) finishing the work for the Platinum Dragon PDF we're producing, which I have scheduled to be done on November 2, and which is well on its way already; and (2) signing piles of books, presumably in December.
So, I'll be able to announce I'm done a few more times.
There are other projects in the offing.
Chris and I have a largely done book on co-op game design. We're not sure on its audience and thus where we can place it with a publisher, but it's a cool, big tome of my writing on a very different topic.
I've also been working on a book about Michael Moorcock's multiverse that I think reflects my Designers & Dragons writing style. I'd hoped to finish it this year, but it's required reading most or all of his books, and that turned out to not be a rational goal for a year. But, it'll be well along by the end of the year, and hopefully I'll be able to finish it in 2015 when there's still a publisher (Gollancz) who has most of his books in print.
And then there's more Designers & Dragons to think about. The Kickstarter was successful enough that I think there's a strong audience for more books, but I'm going to put off thinking about that until I've really finished all the final tasks for Designers & Dragons. So, end of the year.
Otherwise, life goes on.
We had a heat wave over the last several days, which kept it quite hot. The first couple of weeks of October are very frequently our hottest times of the year here in Berkeley.
I biked out on the Bay Bridge again during out hot Saturday as I thought it'd be cool right on the Bay (and I was right). It was fun to see the old Bay Bridge in partial deconstruction, and the views through the gap in the old bridge are breath-taking.
I'd been thinking about going out to San Francisco and visiting a new museum in the Presidio, but opted out due to a huge concert in Golden Gate Park that I feared would jam the BART trains, making it hard to get my bike there and back; maybe this coming Columbian weekend instead.
And I've been taking it easy yesterday and today after the stressful Monday. Yesterday, after the work day, Kimberly and I went out for some dinner together, and then I sat on my butt all evening reading, which is a huge luxury that I almost never do. Then today I went to my regular gaming at Endgame, but didn't try to squeeze in some work when I got home (unless this journal entry counts). I'll get back to my regular schedule of evening work tomorrow or Friday. Mostly to the final Designers & Dragons platinum article as I've cleared my schedule of WotC history articles for the indefinite future and I don't have any DnDClassics articles due until November.