A humid, greenhouse-like start to the week, but I plan on filling it with layouts on new books, mermaid anthology project submissions, and general studio business. There are collages and paintings that need matting, author copies that need folding, orders that need processing. The weekend was a relaxing one and I only left the apartment once to wander to the store, the weather not exactly being condusive to outdoorsy sort of fun, so I gave it over to lazyness and debauchery, to reading and napping and binge watching Pretty Little Liars on netflix. I am already making plans for another trip away, this time for Independance Day hi-jinks and another short camping trip to Wisconsin. I did manage to sign the contract for the new book over the weekend and send it on it's way back to Black Lawrence, which kicks off all sorts of prep work on the book, including gathering blurbs and such, since next spring will be here before we know it. In the realm of books already out in the wilds, there is a really good sale on major characters in minor films at the Sundress store for a limited time, as well as a Spotify list up for music that informed my writing/mindset/aesthetics while I was working on the book.
https://player.spotify.com/user/sundresspublications/playlist/69U07CUF43YCXgxO75Mkkl
Music is this weird thing that is less important to me sometimes and more important to me others, but I do consider it an element of creative process. Sometimes, certain things have soundtracks. I wrote most of the poems in major characters...over the course of about 5 years (2006-2011), years in which a lot of things were shifting in my life. (and during which writing actually took a backseat to other things like the press and the studio, so it took a bit longer to actually pull the book together.) Nevertheless, this is the soundtrack that formed it, or maybe the soundtrack that it formed during those years. Enjoy!
