| | Dare I even THINK things are approaching back to normal?After the blitzkrieg rush to hammer out the Campeones script, which came on top of a different blitz at the day gig, plus a week of business taxes, two weeks of jury duty, and various other ways life gets in the way of independent publishing, I'm looking at what may just be a normal Fall.
Normal in that the day gig gets 200% busier every September, and I consult on one, possibly two, different lucha-related flicks in development right now. BUT, that's much more of a normal plate for me and the FPUniverse, so given that window, the Rafael Navarro artbook should be on schedule.
Raf and I are completing the text in the next few weeks, and work progresses on the artwork. Some of the original stuff, particlarly the "lost" stuff from way back, was in bad shape, so it was a lot of archival-restoration-type Photoshop work. That bad patch is out of the way now.
I'd love to thank everyone for the praise of the "Lucha Noir" preview binder that Raf had out at both San Diego Comicon and Wizard World Chicago. People are chomping at the bit for this thing, and lots of art folk want it to, which is just fantastic.
Meanwhile, I'm once again poking around a "Masked Adventures" story I started for the old "Mr. Unknown's" line back in 2001. It's in a tenth incarnation right now, this one feeling pretty damn good. I'm not a fictioneer by trade, so this thing is more a labor of love, and something I do to fulfill the workaholic's definition of "relaxation"...
FPU web woes continue, mostly because I can only keep so many burners going. I'm looking into hiring a firm to master the thing now. I want a CMS-based site with major back-end control, and those folk aren't as easy or cheap to come by.
The reason the loss of the full FPU-web hasn't hurt so much is the explosion of activity we've had on Amazon.com. Christa's "Snakes on a Plane" novelization led to the biggest spike in crossover sales for HOODTOWN I've ever seen. The future for FPU is definitely in second- and third-party vendors, and I'd love to have a time when I'm wholesaling everything and not fulling orders myself.
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