Status Update

Today seems as good a day as any to provide an update.

I just received a cylinder-shaped parcel in the mail. Within it were two fancy-looking foil-embossed certificates from my university. In my excitement, I thought I’d somehow earned a double major. But now I suspect these are certifications, and I’m still waiting on the actual diploma to arrive. My official transcript arrived weeks ago and proves I graduated, but these days it seems HR departments want a scan of the actual diploma on-file before it’s “official”. I guess I’ll just have to continue waiting, but it feels like my life is on the cusp of great change.

On the writing front, I’ve completed some projects that I unfortunately am unable to associate with this pen name.

Since completing my Pinocchio story and starting this blog, I’ve managed to complete a new 14k word story.

I’m also very close to being done with a fifty page children’s book written (and illustrated) specifically for my children, based on the bedtime stories I tell them.

Furthermore, I may have an opportunity at a ghostwriting gig (related to tradpub) very soon that will pay a decent sum, but it’s not solidified in stone yet. I was expecting the arrangements to be ironed out last Friday, but it still hasn’t happened yet.

On the reading front, I’ve been rereading the Chronicles of Narnia with my wife. We’ve recently finished The Horse and His Boy, and we’ve just one chapter left to go in Prince Caspian. I hadn’t read this series since I was around eight years old. It’s proving to be a nice dose of nostalgia, but it seems the order of books has somehow changed since I was a child. I don’t remember The Magician’s Nephew ever being book 1, but it seems it’s supposed to be read first now. You can plainly see on the edition pictured above (which is the edition I grew up with) that Prince Caspian was once considered book 2, but it’s now considered book 4. Just something I found interesting.