Author Archives: David Todd

“Operation Lotus Sunday” almost published

This will be a quick post. I’m killing time till I have to go to the Centerton City Council meeting to present a contract for a new project. After that it will be take home Sonic burgers for supper. Well, yesterday I got as far as that paragraph and had to quit due to pressing things …

June 12, 2013 – 11:34 am | By David Todd | Posted in Operation Lotus Sunday | Comments (0)

Trying to avoid tinkering

While I’m waiting on the cover for Operation Lotus Sunday to be completed, I’m working on a short story, the third (and I think final) in my short story series dealing with teenage grief at the loss of a parent. I almost finished it last night, and should do so tonight. I also spoke with …

June 6, 2013 – 3:05 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Operation Lotus Sunday | Comments (0)

Started a New Work

I did it today. I started a new work. After church, after lunch, after reading ten pages in Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters, after my weekend long walk, I sat in a tired state at my writing station in The Dungeon. I played a few mindless computer games, then knew I needed to …

June 2, 2013 – 7:30 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Kicking Stones, Short Stories | Comments (0)

What to write next?

Readers of this blog will perhaps remember a time last year when I mused about what I was going to write next. You can see the first of those posts here. I had several follow-up posts over the next weeks. Well, I’m about there now. Operation Lotus Sunday (previously titled China Tour) is very close …

May 29, 2013 – 12:59 pm | By David Todd | Posted in China Tour, Documenting America, Fifty Thousand Screaming People, Headshots, Mom's Letter, Operation Lotus Sunday, Too Old To Play, Whiskey Zebra Tango | Comments (0)

Twenty-two Pages to Go

I’m currently proofreading China Tour—or should I say Operation Lotus Sunday. This will probably be the title. Conventional wisdom says a writer can’t proofread his own work. The problem is we read it how we want it to be, not how it is. So we read right through mistakes. This can be mitigated by reading …

May 23, 2013 – 7:55 am | By David Todd | Posted in China Tour, Operation Lotus Sunday | Comments (0)

Things that are Important

Has it really been ten days since I posted here? On several days I had good intentions, and ideas in mind. But they came to me at a moment when I couldn’t post, and when I did post they didn’t come to me. But much has happened in the interim. Mostly good things. Here’s a …

May 17, 2013 – 8:10 am | By David Todd | Posted in China Tour, Doctor Luke's Assistant, family | Comments (1)

Progress on Two Books

After a week long hiatus, I’m back. Actually it was a little more than a week. What have I been doing to further my writing career, you ask? A few things. I put out three or four calls for launch team members for China Tour. Twelve people responded. I e-mailed them the book, and outlined …

May 7, 2013 – 9:52 am | By David Todd | Posted in China Tour, Doctor Luke's Assistant | Comments (1)

To Justify or Not

One website/blog I monitor with some degree of regularity is Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer. Joel is very big on taking great care in the interior design of a book. He encourages people to use a high-end program, such as InDesign, to create the interior. He does acknowledge, however, that the standard Microsoft Word is …

April 29, 2013 – 2:01 pm | By David Todd | Posted in books, China Tour | Comments (0)

Print cover for “Doctor Luke’s Assistant”

I’ve been working with a cover designer to take the e-book cover for Doctor Luke’s Assistant and create a print book cover for it. It’s a considerably more complicated process and file. But tonight it’s done, but still subject to any final editing and tweaking thought needed. I’m posting it here to see if my …

April 23, 2013 – 10:28 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Doctor Luke's Assistant | Comments (0)

Virtual Book Launch Team

The time has come to begin generating pre-publication buzz for my newest book. As I’ve reported on these pages before, it’s my latest novel, “China Tour”. Here’s what I put on my Facebook author page, and on a Facebook writer page I’m a member of. I’ll slowly be adding it other places. I finished the …

April 16, 2013 – 5:44 pm | By David Todd | Posted in China Tour | Comments (0)