wednes | Progress

Since I last posted roughly five days ago, I've gotten quite a bit of stuff done. I worked a lot, because I do that from time to time. I finished my press packet and sent it out to a few places. I'm going to send the rest on Monday. I only have about about 8 local leads for press. But that should help out. Haven't heard back from my contact at the bookstore about how many books they're ordering. I'm hoping it's right around 50, but who knows. I just don't want to find out at the last minute that I need to order my own books. That would such and I've no idea where I'd come up with $200 on the fly. I also asked about signage but I haven't heard anything yet. If H needs to make me more signs, I'll need to know about it soon.

Early responses for Kiss Me Like You Love Me have been very positive. I'm really looking forward to the release, so I can let it loose on people. I have a feeling it's going to be a bit more accessible for people. This may translate to increased sales and better WOM than Sadie. Sadie got some great reviews but word of mouth didn't really take off. A dear friend of mine from college is actually selling her copies of my books on Amazon. Ouch!

I am seriously going to start looking over my zombie stuff tomorrow so I can start some character drafts. I don't have anyone to see The Crazies with, BTW. It is my hope that someone cool will want to go with me. I really need to befriend more horror fans in my area. Don't know why you should see it? Well feast your peepers!

Peter Vronsky's second book finally arrived. It's a sequel to his first book. This one focuses on female serial killers. Reviews imply that Vronsky has issues with women, and that his writing is very slanted. I didn't pick up anything like that from the book about men (that also mentions a few women), so I'm interested to see what I think.

Still digging the hell out of The Girl Next Door. I may hunt down the movie after I'm done reading it. But no one actually told me the movie is any good, so I'm no no rush.

I'm watching the old Batman movie on TV. Of course, it is really campy. Was the comic book still campy at this point? Was it ever? Is the campiness a stylistic choice made because of an inherent disrespect for the source material? What's the deal with all that? The last Batman comic I read is The Killing Joke. It is really amazing, but fucking DARK. I imagine it's not all that dark, but damn. That Joker is batshit. Pun intended. ;-]

Hoping to go to bed early tonight, which I will do by NOT playing anymore Facebook games tonight.

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'I'm watching the old Batman movie on TV. Of course, it is really campy.

I read that and went 'Wait a minute, it wasn't campy." Wrong batman.

Your old is not my old.

Indeed. I refer to the Batman that came out before I was born. Not the one that came out when I was a teenager. I really need to find older friends. ;-]

Ha ha! Being the same age as you, I watched the series when I was really young in syndication but by the time I went and saw the 1989 movie, I hadn't seen it for years. They started playing it again in the wake of the Batman fever that swept the nation after the new movie. It only took a few minutes of me watching the series to think, "This is Batman?!" I didn't realize that it was being done with a wink.

A dear friend of mine from college is actually selling her copies of my books on Amazon. Ouch!

Did you ever hear of this book? http://www.amazon.com/Mortification-Writers-Stories-Their-Public/dp/0060750928/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264324450&sr=8-6

Wow! That book promises to be hilarious.

I haven't read it yet. I'm going to see if I can order it through my library. One of the stories claims that after a signing an author found a copy of his work he had made out to his parents in the top of a garbage can! That can't be true, can it?

How did you figure out it was your friend selling her copy of your book?

Her user name.

Kathy Bates tells a great story of something that happened to her just after she won the Oscar for Misery. She had signed some autographs for some people and then went back to her trailer. Later, she was talking her dog and picked up some paper on the ground to pick up the dog mess. When she picked up the paper, it had her autograph on it. She says it reminded her to keep things in perspective and not get a swelled head. She's awesome!

Yeah, I get that impression from the interviews I've seen with her. Her performances in Misery and Delores Claiborn blew me away.

Yup. I find her delightful in Fried Green Tomatoes. Plus, she really classes up that Titanic movie.

I never got the impression that the original Batman movie or the show was disrespectful to the source material. I mean, it was, of course, but I don't think it was meant as a slap or anything. More of just a gentle ribbing of the darkness of the real original and at the genre in general. I still prefer it to anything that's come out since, but I'm strange that way.

I didn't necessarily mean they had contempt for the material. I was referring more to the way comic books/graphic novels are not taken as seriously (artistically and as literature) as other mediums. That attitude would give NBC an excuse to take huge liberties with the overall temperament of the show. But I haven't read many old Batman comics, so I'm speculating. I'm sort of waiting for my nerdier friends to chime in. ;-]

As I recall, hearsay and all--I haven't read them, the original Batman comics were just as dark as the story that's told nowadays. Batman was one of the first troubled/psychotic superheroes, if not the first.

Reading the Wikipedia entry, it looks like one of the creators was, indeed, a hater of comic books, so that's where the camp came from. I'm a fan, though. It's one of my favorite childhood shows, as much for the villain cameos as anything else.

Agreed. It's a really fun show, with a high nostalgic value. Vincent Price as Egghead, and Victor Buono as that Pharoah guy are def among my faves. I also enjoy Night Gallery for that same reason.

Funny, I did a post a rant about Superman v Batman very similar to the one in Kill Bill 2, only a year or so before that movie came out. How Clark Kent is a disguise, but Bruce Wayne is the real guy and Batman is the disguise.

Seriously high nostalgic value. Cesar Romero and Burgess Meredith, too. Oh, and Frank Gorshin!

I haven't seen Night Gallery since it was on.

Interesting.

Batman in the fifties and sixties was (as I understand it) sci-fi/fantasy/camp stuff because they needed to tell new stories and that sort of thing was popular at the time.

It wasn't until the late seventies and into the eighties that people ... uh ... "pissed off" Batman again. (Frank Miller did 'The Dark Knight Returns,' a gritty future-story he's still famous for despite now churning out pure crap. Alan Moore did 'The Killing Joke,' and is still famous for being awesome.)

When I was growing up, "grim n' gritty" was the rule, and after they realized there's 'nowhere to go after that,' story-wise, they came around and began writing better, deeper and less despondent stuff.

I see. I knew you would know. Are you coming over tonight even though there's no cartoons?

I'd have to find another meeting -- this one's close, gay-positive, includes my sponsor, and the car's always unused.

I'm probably gonna roll with this for a while until I can find a less oppressive job. :/

Okay dude. I love you!

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