The Logging Town

My third book, The Logging Town, in the Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat is scheduled to be released on October 1 of this year. This will make it ready for Christmas. This book added to the other two out to make a good package for children who love to read. I've been spending the last few days attempting to devise a method to keep the head from destroying my tomato plants. I've ended up putting a shade over them. I'll know in the next few days if it's doing any good. The heat here in Texas is becoming unbearable. June is normally our month of rain, so far we haven't had any in San Antonio. When we water, which can be only once per week, the yard soaks it up. The next afternoon the ground is still suffering. I think the water is running down into all of the cracks in the ground.

Witches and Castles

I spent a part of this past weekend drawing a castle. It took awhile to get the perspective right. I hope to spend some of this weekend drawing three portraits of witches. I also need to complete my drawing of five witches dancing around a cauldron. Oh, well somebody has to do it. On a totally diffent note, I've started getting tomatoes out of my garden.

Lab Reports, Writing, Superman

I'm thinking about adding to my writing by doing some lab reports. I need to do something else in addition to what I'm doing. I roughed out a concept yesterday for a new science fiction book. I hope to find time to start it in the next few weeks. I've completely redone my flyer for my book, "Astronaut Training." I've added a lot more info to it but have run into a size constraint. It's, as always, a balance between what you want to do and what you can do. I'm going to stay away from the new Superman Movie. It is UnAmerican as the phrase "Truth, Justice, and the American Way," has been altered to remove the American part. I'll to purchase or watch the movie.

Science Fiction, Future writing

My garden is growing. The tomato plants are getting close to being three feet tall. Hopefully I'll remember to water them. I've spent some time today working on the illustrations for my book about witches, "The Land of G'lop." I've finished seven of them, roughed out one, and have only ten to fifteen more to do. As slow as I'm working that's a couple of months work. Oh, well they'll get done when I can get them done. I'm waiting for the third book in, "The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat" to get back from the editor. I've also redone my flyers. I've put more info on them, perhaps too much. I'd still like to get some more interest in my full length science fiction novels. I need to have some success so that I'll have time to do more writing. I have the third book in my trilogy to do. It's going to be about five hundred or so pages long. I've got it all laid out and know in what direction I want to go but I don't want to start it as it's going to be somewhat complex. There are going to be a lot of characters and settings in it as the action moves farther out into space--both known and unknown. Maybe they'll go looking for God, or at least what could be God.

Finished Third Book in Cosmic Cat Collection

I've finished my third book in the "Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat," collection. This one takes the trio to a logging town. Where they suffer through many adventures as they explore the town and its surrounding attractions. It's over a hundred pages long with twenty-seven illustrations. It will be around 200 hundred pages long when it's reduced to its publishing size. I don't know whether I should start on the next one or go back to the book on witches I'm working on. I need to do about ten to fifteen illustrations to finish it. The text is basically done. I also took some time to put flowers in one of the beds in front of the house. I'll do another one this Thursday if nothing else comes up.

Science Fiction Author

I've finished writing my third novel in "The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat." I'm now working to clean up the drawings and merge them into a single whole. As soon as this is done I'll send it out to couple readers working as my editors. I've also spent the last few days putting my garden together. Mostly tomatoes and bell peppers with a few added egg plants. I spent most of today putting a new hot water heater in my Mother-in-laws house. I'll finish the garden, hopefully, tomorrow and get back to my writing and marketing my completed works.

Getting Published

The hardest thing is not actually writing a book, it's getting it pulished. It's necessary, with the present state of our society, that every effort be taken to put our works in the hands of readers. The more people that are exposed to our work the more likely it is that it will be successful. It does almost no good to spend a lot of time attemped to get a work published by submitting it to publishers or agents. It's first necessary to establish a name for ourself in the local area. If we can sell enough locally the work will be noticed and sold nationally. It's just setting the time aside to dedicate to its selling that is difficult. We just have to do it.