{"id":2012,"date":"2012-06-21T21:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2012-06-21T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T02:19:29","slug":"june-july-august-the-heavy-reading-months-or-here-there-be-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"June-July-August, the Heavy Reading Months (Or, Here There Be Books)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amped<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Daniel Wilson, author of\u00a0Robopocalypse<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(which I loved.) I received an advanced reading copy, but hadn’t had time to sit down and crack it until now. It’s my current front-porch-with-lemonade read. (Fic-SciFi)<\/p>\n

Victims<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Jonathan Kellerman. I am a Kellerman junkie, and have almost finished mowing through his entire body of work for the second time, but\u00a0Victims<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is fresh and new, and I’m looking forward to starting it soon. (Fic-thriller)<\/p>\n

11\/22\/63<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Stephen King. Saving it for the cottage! So, I suppose it doesn’t go in the “what I’m reading” column so much as the “what I intend to read” column, but I’m not making a page for that because it would be ridiculously long. (Fic-horror)<\/p>\n

Death to Dust<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Kenneth V. Iserson. Again. For the tenth time (conservative estimate.) An absolute must for any writer planning on putting a death in their book. \u00a0(NFic-medical)<\/p>\n

On Killing<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. (NFic-military\/psychology)<\/p>\n

What I’m Writing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

First draft of\u00a0Death Rejoices<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>book two of\u00a0The Marnie Baranuik Files,<\/em>\u00a0is in the hands of my trusty beta reader; the feedback so far has been encouraging. Still some tidying to do before it goes to my snarkypants editor, Mr. Rafe Brox (and I only say “Mr.” because he looks like he could calmly twist my skullcap off with one hand and use it to mash my brains to a grey meat slurry.)<\/p>\n

Horror shorts<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for the untitled anthology with my collaborator, Jason D. Ready, (I believe the D stands for “Demonic Ginger”) are nearly done. Okay, that’s a big fat lie, they’re not even close to being done, but let’s pretend. His stories are done and they’re great. *digs toe in sand*<\/p>\n

Research has commenced for\u00a0Last Impressions<\/em><\/strong>, book three in\u00a0The Marnie Barankuik Files<\/em>. I’m pestering my very patient detective for Canadian cop info. Let’s call him Constable Name Withheld, since I keep forgetting to ask him if it’s okay if I say who he is, and Constable Name Withheld is a lot more professional-sounding than the other stuff I could call him.<\/p>\n

Research and outlining has also commenced for my other collaboration with Jason D. Ready, an untitled\u00a0steampunk series<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0that is still in the outlining phase. This dark-yet-humourous series will include everything that is horribly, horribly wrong in both our heads. So much win.<\/p>\n

Outlining and general idea-hucking has begun with my other collaborator (the above-mentioned snarkypants editor boy) Rafe Brox, on our\u00a0weirdo, noir-punk-scifi<\/strong>\u00a0book<\/strong><\/em>, also untitled. Hrm, usually I’m better with giving something a title right off the bat. I’m going to blame my collaborators, since this is my blog and I can do whatever I want, neener-neener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m Reading Amped\u00a0by Daniel Wilson, author of\u00a0Robopocalypse\u00a0(which I loved.) I received an advanced reading copy, but hadn’t had time to sit down and crack it until now. It’s my current front-porch-with-lemonade read. (Fic-SciFi) Victims\u00a0by Jonathan Kellerman. I am a Kellerman junkie, and have almost finished mowing through his entire body of work for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}