Hey everyone! We’re back. We took a little bit of a holiday hiatus in order to… well… I’ll let Cheryl tell you why when you listen to the show. Trust me, you don’t have to wait very long for her to get into it. She barely let me hit record before she blurted it out.
After we talk about why we were away, we have discussion about where she’s at now and what she wants for the future.
Enjoy!
Diff'in Strokes 
February 8, 2016 at 12:57 pm
“Dr. Grumpypants and the flipped-off Nurses” (530 pages).
(To be followed by “Coming Home” and “Going With the Flow” [completing the “I Can’t Read Lips” trilogy.])
It’s so good to hear from you all! I must admit I was getting a little concerned… but I’m so glad to hear that the reason you’ve been out of touch is because Manny has been working so hard on the book, and has actually finished it! Congratuations!
I’m also so glad to hear that Cheryl is doing so well. I could understand you fine Cheryl — and obviously there is no way I could be reading your lips!
On the subject of brain weirdnesses though (regarding reading lips being a higher function), did you catch that weird optical/auditory illusion that was going aroud a few days ago? I can’t remember where I saw it (Paste Magazine maybe), but it was somebody saying “ba” over and over again. But when they switch to a video of him saying “va” instead of “ba”, even though the soundtrack is exactly the same, you HEAR “va” instead of “ba”!!! I couldn’t believe it myself until I help my hand over his mouth (and I went back to hearing “ba”)!!! Check it out if you can find it.
Glad Christmas went well, and for all the other updates.
Speaking of writing books (instead of screenplays), by coincidence I wrote a short story and sent it to a national magazine (one that promises to read all submissions within 1 to 3 months, and if they accept it pay $200). Figured it was worth a try.
Also, at a recent meeting of the writers group I found out that more and more screenwriters are re-writing some of their screenplays into novels and then self-publishing them. And supposedly some are making som real money off it. I guess those who are good at Mac compuers can use some program called Vellum (I think) and do virtually everything themselves. Others (like me) with PCs (or those who don’t want to learn how to use Vellum and such) can apparently have a company like Bookbaby do all the work for them. Though I guess that can run to hundreds of dollars. But I guess you can do both e-books and printed books (either printed in bulk to have in stock or printed on demand I think).
Do you know anything about all this self-publishing stuff Manny (or Cheryl or Ally)? Of course if you can get a traditiional publisher interested that would probably be best. But if not (or at least not initially), you might be able to do a kickstarter campaign to raise money for the Bookbaby fees, given the serious non-fiction nature of the book. (That is, I don’t think anyone woud pay to have me or you self-publish an unknown screenplay, but they might a book like you’ve written.)
Okay, I’ve rambled on long enough. Just so glad to hear things are going so well! (As I say, I was starting to get a little worried.)
Best wishes,
Neal
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