New

In this humbum life that I call my own, very little new stuff happens. Every once in a while, a few insignificant and meaningless changes crop up, and this post is concerned with those changes.

First of all, my new hair. Well, technically it is the same old hair that I had before, I didn't grow a new crop of new hair, (thought I guess it might all be new hair I've grown since the last picture of myself I have posted...) but rather my hair is now cut differently. I present to you the hair cut that I have been told makes me look younger, older, edgier, and more sophisticated.

I spent like seven minutes making it so the pictures would be side by side.

New term of college. As a finish up a term of college where I was nearly driven insane by Math101, (because it was ridiculously easy but I had to take it because everyone has to take it.) (This is weird, everything I write now is highlighted. It doesn't show up like that in the actual post, but it is doing it to me in the writing stage.) For the first time since I started college I am actually taking more than one class per term that deals with actual accounting.

New season of Korra. Book 4: Balance. I am both excited and a little said. Also somewhat confused. At the present time I am on a search for way there was a year between each Korra season, but the 4th one comes only three months after the end of the 3rd one. (The irony here is that there is only a few months time between each season  in the show's time, but three years pass between season 3 and 4.)

 

 

And last but not least there is coming a new NaNoWriMo. A vaguely Victorian/steampunk theme this year. As soon as they clear them from last year and put all this year's stuff up I will bet hitting the forums in my free time and working on my novel's outline this month.

Very Exciting News

The first of today's very exciting news concerns my family. My sister Megan had a successful delivery of Elizabeth Faith Hafle on Thursday of last week. (Yea, I know, it's been like, a full week. Don't judge. It may take me a while but I get there.)

 

(I stole this picture from Megan off of Facebook. I hope you don't mind. If you do send my a very bitter and judging message.)

 

Second order of exciting news. My book Cycle is now available for sale. You can purchase it at Amazon, or the CreateSpace e-store at this ULR https://www.createspace.com/4626634. If you get it off of Amazon you'll get to it more easily if you search for it under my name, (author name) Alex Quillian, than under Cycle. There are a lot of books out there that have the word "Cycle" in the title. (As cool as the amazon page is, get them at the direct URL if you could. Totally selfish request. I get higher royalties that way.)

 

 

See, it's all official. You can even look inside of it.

 

Third, last, but not least. Dave's Killer Bread is here, in Tennessee! All the way from Oregon I have missed your delightful, rich, wheaty taste. I have longed, and longed for bread this tasty ever since moving down here. They don't really believe in wheat bread down here. Even the wheat bread was white.

 

 

Failures

I have to important failures to discuss today. My first being, my failure to A Thousand Days. Starting in June, I just sort of stopped. I fell out of the habit, and well, never started it up again. A part of me is really upset for doing this, I was over half way done, after all.



Well, for any of you still following, my life is the same, pretty much. My oldest sister is having another baby, my second oldest sister got a new car because her old on kept breaking, and I am in a different semester of school. Same job, same basic interests. Same lame social life. I have accounts on a couple different social media sights, but due to the fact I never do anything I never post. In essence I am living the same monotonous unchanging life that makes for a rather lack luster lif

e on the internet. Maybe I should join Tumblr. Oddly it seems it is those kinds of people who become popular there.

 

On to other failures and potentially exciting news, I am attempting to make it so my book Cycle can be purchased. I am following the steps with CreateSpace, and it mat be available for purchase within the next couple weeks. It might already be available if not for one small thing.

 

The cover was monstrous.

 

When I was done with all of the steps and such, I sent in this picture to be the cover.

 

 

And this is what I got. More or less.





 

So I have reworked the cover to be lighter. I also chose a different picture that would not be as prone to being made dark and dusky I figured I would give it one more go. I don't have the money to keep ordering $7 dollar proofs indefinitely. It mat not seem like much, but this is the third proof. If I like this third cover, I will publish it through as many channels as CreateSpace offers, and maybe look into getting stalls for events, and junk like that. More as it comes up, which it probably won't.

 

Also check out this cool T.A.R.D.I.S. thumb drive I got.

 

 

Day 609

Day six hundred nine

July 2, 2014: Desolations of Smaug, fireworks at church, some good head way into a series I am working on. All in all a pretty pleasant day.

Day 608

Day six hundred eight

July 1, 2014: My summer vacation is two weeks long, and one of those weeks is a cheat. Next week is my only full week, but this semester ends tomorrow, and doesn’t begin until Wednesday after my full week off. It annoys me, this fake second week.