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and
paperback
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(Available from most online retailers April 6th)
Now available in eBook format and paperback You can also view a sample here. See other options. (Available from most online retailers April 6th)
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I've been writing a new story.
Mostly, it's about a girl and her cat who solve mysteries. (but it's about other things, too.) You can view a sample here. What follows is a lengthy and scattered tale detailing the reason for posting such a blog entry.
You can, of course, take a look at the remaining data here. One may suppose others are more rational than me. Others would have made an ACX account first, but not me. I fought an uphill battle of fire trucks, police and ambulance sirens, preschool hours with screaming children, elementary school bells, constant air flight traffic of all kinds (although, one supposes it is worth noting in reference to “all kinds”, I didn’t actually see anything I couldn’t identify; in fairness, I didn’t always check what was going on through the window), local neighborhood traffic, dogs barking, a cat meowing, a freeway, one public railway, some less-public railways, a whining refrigerator and a laptop that wanted to overheat by the end of every recording session. Oh, and a ton of stammering and starting sentences over to make sure I got the lines said as close to the way I wanted them as possible. And that was just recording. Then, I fought multiple DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) to get what I wanted from a production standpoint, probably more due to my own unfamiliarity with them than anything else. I later enlisted the help of my brother, who also used at least 2 other DAWs, at which time we had to scrap our initial work for the initial chapters and start over. (Oh, and this was after a separate recording for the entirety of “The Dreary House” part of Branching Chaos as “The Dreary House”, the slightly different novella published before appearing as it does in Branching Chaos, and scrapping that in favor of recording the work as a whole.) I had no idea audiobooks were this hard, and I will do my part to keep reading print and digital, because this is way too much work for one person. That, or I’ll hire someone else next time, because I’m not dealing with this again. Not yet, anyway. I’m much happier writing books, saying or singing words, and making music. Audiobooks are, decidedly, “not that,” and, to those who prefer audiobooks, I’m so happy you waited for me to get all of this as a final product. I hope you enjoy it. I’m just now having ACX check everything as I write about these experiences, and there are 3-4 chapters with issues, chapter 6 is stuck on analysis like chapter 1 was for a while, so we’ll see if it, too, gives an error. But those errors should be easily fixable by me or my brother this week. By the time anyone reads this, the mental landscape of recording of this audiobook will be looked back on by me like something out of Eraserhead: Gray scale, distant, and a time bordering on hostile that, while terrifying, does at least seem to be over with until I make a screenplay. As for the cover being “off”, I wanted readers to look closer at the cover of duality depicted, because a theme of duality permeates this book in the way everyone chooses their own reality. I also wanted the letters to connect and be framed by the branches in some way, and, offsetting it, I felt, emphasized the chaos. To get into it just a little further, the final publication of Branching Chaos didn’t go well, either. I once again did whatever I wanted without reading the instructions, and this resulted in a rather difficult-to-read book from a “there are words, with exact spaces for those words, missing” standpoint. It has been reworked for a better “all the words are there” experience to coincide with the release of this audiobook. I would like to think the “without reading the instructions” part of these experiences has been worked out, and I’m excited about future projects. It’s pretty cool how it took the published, well-known authors about 2 years to publish an audiobook back when I was younger. And, despite all the aforementioned frustrations, it took me, as an independent author, a month and a week and maybe a few days shy of 2 years to do the same, almost completely by myself. [Thanks, bro.]
Audiobook?
Writing? Not much news on that yet. For now, here is a mix of some of the music I've made since last year. Please enjoy :) [MUSIC]
I've been excited to release one of those "extended play" music contraptions! As it turns out, The Notes That Exploded runs 32 minutes (a full long-player.) Watch the first music video from The Notes That Exploded at 7:00 MST tonight. New music next week! [WRITING] Up next, as usual, is the audiobook for Branching Chaos. I wrote this many years ago. It's been on my mind a lot over the last year or so. I just found it again. The date on my computer is near the end of 2015, but I think that's just the day I took it from a note I made on facebook, which was taken from a note written at some point while teaching. "Why we don't go outside any more."
By Nathan Nish we don't go outside any more we're too afraid of the shooting from the war. They say it is this, and they say it is that. They say they'll save us, because another "they" hates us, they want to enslave us - but I just can't tell which "they" is the "they" we're supposed to have disclosed that we've always hated just a little bit more. I can't help but ask what it's all for but I know the answers that are through that door are the ones that soon, we'll be unable to ignore. So we get in our cars drive out to the stars but this dream ends just before we ever opened that door so we get up and go to the store just to hope it's still the place we've always explored. day in and day out, a little more doubt from all of those wars in countries that have little stores that are too afraid of the shooting, so they don't go outside anymore. Branching Chaos turns 1 year old July 17th! Thank you for your support, much love <3 Please consider leaving a review, sharing a link to this post, and/or talking to others about it.
Probably a bit late in terms of "News", but I do have a new album out now! Check it out here. This is the album art: [If you've scrolled this far, congratulations! This is the end of the post, except this part where I explain that I'm hard at work on this website idea I've been kicking around for a few years. It isn't done yet, but version 1.0 is almost ready. It needs beta-reader/testers, so feel free to check it out with the understanding it's a work in progress here.]
:) There has been talk of some video projects.
(Which is really to say I keep talking about making videos with people and hope it happens.) Some old footage was recovered and just needs editing. The first part of an outline for a new book is done. Storyboard and script for a kids book is done. The long-delayed collection of short stories might be done sometime this year. Very pleased with how Branching Chaos did last year: No reviews back yet, but sales in multiple markets markets and at least four countries. Thank you! I hope everyone is enjoying it. The audiobook is still in progress, 73% is recorded and 0% has been edited. New music will be recorded, probably in February for Record and Album in a Month month. Editing and polishing may take longer. To quote Imbruglia, "That's what's going on." |
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