Well, dear readers, it is finally Friday, and also it is the beginning of a very long weekend and boy do I need this very long weekend and I will be luxuriating in it each and every day starting with this very day. It is nice to have the luxury to luxuriate and, conversely, it is nice to have the luxuriate to luxury. For example, I am luxuriating even as I write these here notes. Just knowing I don’t have a damn thing, work-wise, other than writing the blurb for our new release and getting all the stuff to the web guy for our Monday morning announcement (announced here first Saturday at midnight), and doing a bit of writing on the new Wechter/Kimmel project. I’m also trying to find more ways of promoting the new book, which is always the name of the game. I do know there will be more signings, including one in New York, New York sometime in the next couple of months – that I’m very excited about. I’m hoping to get some radio interviews and someone is helping me with all that stuff. If anyone has any other ideas, I’m happy to listen. I’d love to do writer groups and libraries and any of those kinds of events and am happy to fly to wherever they take place. I love talking to people, answering questions, and reading from the book. Of course, I have a somewhat major event in November, I think, something that dear reader JMK set up – that’s an evening with ME, and I’ll be showing clips and playing songs and JMK will moderate and I’m really looking forward to that and hope that all our people in that neck of the woods will come. If not the people in that neck of the woods then perhaps the people in that arm of the woods or that feet of the woods. I did have to order more books today – I was completely out of certain things, like Murder at Hollywood High and Benjamin Kritzer, and I am, amazingly, perilously low on the new book. Anyway, feel free to drop me a message if you think your local library or reader group might be interested in having me come in.
Yesterday was quite a pleasantly pleasant but busy day. Both CDs and helper arrived promptly at nine. We got everything packaged up, prepared all the dealer orders that we had, and then got it all to the post office and the UPS Store. Once we were finished with that, we had a spot of lunch, then came back home. The helper spent another hour or so organizing things and she did a great job. And we finally figured out how to use the Harry Fox website – the Fox Agency is where you file for mechanical licenses for the music one issues on CD and then you pay them the mechanical royalty (per song, per unit) and they dole out to the various and sundried publishing companies and writers. We’ve always done this via mail, but they’re really slow about it, not organized, and it’s very frustrating. But for certain types of things, the website is very handy now, only it doesn’t really work that well. After many tries, we finally did what we needed to do today. Then the helper left, and I did some work that needed doing. I then did some errands and whatnot, ate a little chicken breast with sautéed onions, and then moseyed on over to Hollywood, California to do a few things.
I never had time to watch a motion picture on Blu and Ray or any other format. One sort of annoying thing was that when they had to swap out my old (eight months old) DVR for the new DVR I lost all those lovely hi-def movies I’d recorded, many of which I hadn’t even gotten around to watching. Hopefully they’ll be shown again soon. I will say that the new DVR is much faster and smoother. I then listened to several CDs and had several telephonic conversations.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get my beauty sleep so that I’m alive and alert for the long, long weekend so I can think of more ways of promoting a book on this long, long weekend.
Today, I have very little to do and I intend to keep it that way. I will do a little writing, a few errands and whatnot, I will eat very lightly (I’ve been craving tuna sandwiches, so I’m sure that’s what I’ll do), and then I’m just going to catch up on a lot of CD listening and motion picture watching. I also have to get the blurb and audio samples for our new release to the web guy.
Tomorrow, I think someone is coming to visit, and after that I will do errands and whatnot, and then I have a dinner to attend. Sunday is more of the same and Sunday night is dinner at Genghis Cohen with my helper and her mom and sister. It’s a little thank you for all her hard work. Monday is a day of rest, then Tuesday begins the week, which will be a busy one.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora and the Old-Fashioned Waltz, because today is the birthday of our very own Mr. Arnold M. Brockman. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to our very own Mr. Arnold M. Brockman. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO OUR VERY OWN MR. ARNOLD M. BROCKMAN!!!
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a little writing, try to do a jog of some sort, eat a couple of tuna sandwiches, and then listen to CDs and watch motion pictures. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, a whole slew of soundtracks from various and sundried labels. Blu and Ray – the second and third Magnificent Seven movies. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all get ready to luxuriate in the long, long weekend.