Last month I mentioned that I was relatively fortunate in that so far I’d been able to adapt to the new normal without much disruption to my personal life. Well, the same applies to the first full month of lockdown. While I’ve been cooped up indoors, I’ve been able to make use of my additional free time to work on creative projects.
My novel’s nearly at the 40,000-word mark, I’ve been tweaking the second issue of Midnight Widows with Marcela and Jio (although they’ve been doing most of the work, I should stress) and talked over a round of revisions with the editor of my TV tie-in book (should be able to properly announce that very soon). I’ve also got started on a couple of annual traditions of mine: review series for the Hugos and Splatterpunk Awards. Hopefully I’ll be able to get each of them running in May.
Until then… adieu!
Articles of mine published elsewhere this month:
- Remembering Charlee Jacob: Cities and Guises
- The Ghost Galleon review
- Astounding Histories, January 1930: Stories of Super-Science
Article topics for May and beyond:
When I started this series, I intended it to be a comparison between Marvel’s Thor comics and Norse mythology. That turned out to be a bit of a mug’s game because, well, the earliest issues had almost nothing in common with the myths. But now we come to the October 1963 issue, where all that changes thanks to the new back-up feature: “Tales of Asgard”.
It’s been a while since I blogged about the legendary 1980s partwork magazine The Unexplained, but dipping back into it seems a good way to spend my quarantining period. I’ve already covered the first issue, so let’s crack open the second…
Doris V. Sutherland 