{"id":4311,"date":"2012-06-14T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2012-06-22T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:50:57","slug":"the-busiest-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/06\/14\/the-busiest-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The Busiest Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Kickstarting an old Indian motorcycle.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/kickstartmoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"381\" \/>For some reason, May and\u00a0 June always seem to be the busiest months for me as a writer. This June is no exception; in fact, it&#8217;s probably busier than most.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely earning the title &#8220;Juggling Writer&#8221; this month. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Kickstarter<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I quickly mentioned the <a title=\"The Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors Kickstarter project.\" href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/MfQKxh\">Kickstarter project for <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em><\/a> when it became active last week. Thanks to those who have already contributed. If you&#8217;ve already bought a copy of <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em>, please don&#8217;t feel the need to buy it again. When the relaunch comes out, just email me and I&#8217;ll send you an updated copy. I don&#8217;t want to become the George Lucas of e-books and keep changing things and charging people for the same thing over and over.<\/p>\n<p>The story isn&#8217;t changing (and I promise that it&#8217;s not just Ewok-free, but <a title=\"Blinking Ewoks and Darth Vader goes, &quot;NOOOOOOOOO!!!&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5835951\/darth-vader-will-lose-a-little-more-of-his-dignity-in-star-wars-original-trilogy-blu+rays-listen-for-yourself\"><em>blinking<\/em> Ewok<\/a>-free!) Also, if you&#8217;ve sent a road trip essay to be included in the relaunch of <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em>, you&#8217;ll get a free copy.<\/p>\n<p>If you <em>haven&#8217;t<\/em> checked out <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em>, and a humorous coming-of-age story about a family traveling cross country in a possessed station wagon sounds like your thing, here&#8217;s the Kickstarter video (you can check out the page, <a title=\"The Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors Kickstarter project.\" href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/MfQKxh\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480px\" height=\"360px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cgronlund\/hell-comes-with-wood-paneled-doors\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Reformatting Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Obviously, with the <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> relaunch, there&#8217;s some work to be done. I&#8217;ve learned quite a bit more about formatting e-books since it was first released, so I&#8217;m reformatting the files and adding extra content. Some of that extra content are the road trip essays some of your have already sent!<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t sent a road trip essay, there&#8217;s still time to have it included in the <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors <\/em>relaunch&#8230;as well as a chance of winning and Kindle Touch! More information <a title=\"I Want Your Best Road Trip Tale.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/03\/25\/i-want-your-best-road-trip-tale\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Revising Old Man<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done all my edits on <a title=\"Old Man sneak peek.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/oldmanpeek.pdf\">Old Man<\/a>; now, I just need to get them into the manuscript. After that, off to the first line of readers.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Submitting Promise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While some of the stuff I write goes straight to e-books, the mainstream stuff makes more traditional rounds.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m submitting <a title=\"The first section of Promise.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/promisepeek.pdf\">Promise<\/a>, and hoping for the best.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Magic Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking of my mainstream stuff, it&#8217;s been nice getting back to <em><a title=\"A snippet of A Magic Life.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2011\/11\/17\/another-change-in-writing-plans\/\">A Magic Life<\/a><\/em> after setting it aside for <em>Old Man<\/em> and some other writing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll ever write a more &#8220;me&#8221; book than <em>Promise<\/em>, but I look at the parts of <em>A Magic Life<\/em> I&#8217;ve written and I can see years of hard work paying off. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever enjoyed the challenge of pushing myself more, and I <em>definitely <\/em>know I&#8217;ve never wanted to write something as much as this book!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Emerging Tech Conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On top of writing, I&#8217;m preparing for this month&#8217;s <a title=\"Emerging Tech Conference.\" href=\"http:\/\/emcdallas.com\/\">Emerging Tech Conference<\/a>, where I&#8217;m speaking about the power of sequential content (and how WordPress can tie into it all).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the chance to share some things, but even more &#8212; to see all the other presentations and spend a weekend chatting with cool people about new media.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Work<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For me, work often puts the juggling in <em>The Juggling Writer<\/em>, and this month has been quite an act!<\/p>\n<p>Heavy workload and managing a couple big projects (and managing other writers) has definitely kept my time at work &#8212; and some time away from work &#8212; busy!<\/p>\n<p>But if 31 years of juggling&#8217;s taught me nothing else, it&#8217;s that the number of things you try juggling that at first seems impossible eventually becomes routine. There&#8217;s time in the pattern to get it all done!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>July<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to getting a lot done in June because I want to enjoy July. The month kicks off with my 20th anniversary!<\/p>\n<p>My wife is badass&#8230;being married to a writer, I imagine, isn&#8217;t the easiest thing in the world. She knew my writing before she knew me, and if there comes a day that I make it writing full time, the one thing that will be cooler than making it will be sharing the experience with the person who&#8217;s been there since the beginning. I definitely plan to relax and enjoy the first week of July!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How &#8216;Bout You?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to; how about you? Any cool projects you want to mention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, May and\u00a0 June always seem to be the busiest months for me as a writer. 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