New year, same me

Rag and Bone book 3
​Work's begun on the first draft of book 3. At this point, I'm roughly 1/3 of the way through the manuscript. There will be endless revisions afterward, I'm sure, but I am hopeful to have something in the hands of the publisher before the end of summer. Don't hold me to that; if I miss that deadline, you can bet that I'm going to go ahead and pretend I never set it.

Media
There's quite a lot out there I haven't watched or read yet, and I'm trying to come to terms, on an existential level, that there's just a hard limit on what I'll ever be able to see and read. I finally got around to reading George R. R. Martin's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and it might be my favorite thing he's written in Westeros. My current TBR pile includes Sanderson's Rhythm of War, Danielewski's House of Leaves, a reread of The Stand, and something by Erik Larson -- either The Splendid and the Vile or In the Garden of Beasts, I don't know which.

I started a re-watch of Jackson's Lord of the Rings, which will take me another month of snippet watching to get through, no regrets. I need to watch The Boy and the Heron," but I'm afraid I will probably have to wait until it comes to streaming service (MAX, I think?) before I will get a chance to see it.
My boys and I have have been playing a lot of Kirby these past few weeks on the Switch, and I'm overjoyed to be able to share this with them. Gaming's been such a big part of my media diet since I was a boy, and they're finally of an age to appreciate it alongside me.

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This is the cover art for Kirby and The Forgotten Land. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the game or the publisher, Nintendo or the developers, HAL Laboratory.

Miscellany
The website still needs some updating. That's on my list. Reviews continue to come in for both books, and they're always welcome. I'm over on Threads, so go find me there if you haven't already. It's mostly nonsense, every day. What fun!

That's all from me, for now.
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​-J. E. Ayers