2015—finally there

Movie-review book manuscript (ms): It's been a long slog, but I'm finally at my 2015 reviews, having started with 2005-era reviews. From 2005 to 2015, my writing improved a good bit. For 2015, there seem to be about 32 movie reviews. Both the length and the frequency of movie reviews have gone up over the years; I had a lot of one-paragraph and two-paragraph reviews early on. These days, I do those sorts of reviews only when I don't have anything of substance to say about a movie that I either disliked or merely found uninteresting. Nowadays, most of my reviews are longer, more in-depth, and (I hope) better written.

So in a few days, I'll finish compiling the ms, then I'll work on final formatting. I still need a title for the movie-review book, which will be Volume 1 in a series, so it's got to be a title that can withstand the testicles of time. Your thoughts are welcome if you have something catchy in mind. I also need to write the book's preface and maybe an afterword or a bio.

At a rate of about five or six movie reviews per day, I ought to be done with the ms in about five or six days. In theory, anyway. Assuming life doesn't throw me a curve ball. Final editing/formatting, the writing of the preface and the afterword/bio, figuring out the title, designing a decent cover, converting the ms to Kindle format, and slapping everything online ought to take a couple weeks more. After that, I need to create the dead-tree version of my book. That ought to be relatively easier and quicker to do.