Life of Pol

It's vacation time again.  Steve and I are both off this week.  We don't have anything really concrete planned, but that's good.  We're just gonna do whatever comes up. I managed to finish Inanimate Object Friday night.  I was so glad that I did, this way I can truly do nothing while I'm on vacation and try to chill.  The key word there is TRY.  I wanted to stop writing for the week, thought my brain deserved it.  I've been going and going for most of the year.  In January I was working on the final polishes for Luthor and then worked on getting published.  Once that was done, I started working on the sequel to Blue Moon , The Rise of the Son .  And once that was done and published I worked on Inanimate Objects .  So, yes, I need a break.  But needing one and convincing my brain and heart that I'm on one is another thing entirely.  All day yesterday I had the nagging feeling that I should be doing some...

Well, just wanted to drop a line and say hi.  I've been making great headway on my current project.  My goal is to finish by mid week.  Then it heads to three rounds of edits and we can put it in the can (movie talk for finishing a film). I hope everyone bookmarks my website www.polmcshane.com  so you can keep up with me in the future.  I have lots of stuff planned.  Here's a list of upcoming books in order of their release: Inanimate Objects- Squish-Squash- The Son and the Moon (the final installment of the Blue Moon saga)- Reunion-The Children of Lauderdale Park- Hell on Earth (Inanimate Objects pt2)- Love Me Beautiful- So stick with me and enjoy the ride.  It may get a little scary . . .

Well, I just finished reading Life of Pi and I loved it. It's weird, I had never even heard of this book before. Then, one day, Steve and I were at the movies and he was in the concession line and I was looking around at the upcoming movies. There it was: a tall thee-sided display for a movie called Life of Pi.  One side was covered in meerkats and the other had a whale and the third had a lifeboat with a boy in it and a Bengal tiger. Of course my interest was peeked.  As soon as I got home I looked up the trailer and the movie looked amazing. Something told me that I wanted to read the book. So I went on Amazon and purchased the eBook. I devoured the story. The weird part is that I have heard so many people tell me they, too, love the book and had read it long ago. Now I can't wait for the movie to come out even more so. I just have to make a conscious effort not to continuously compare the movie to the book, since there are inevitably going to be differences. I had t...

Yes, I know I haven't been blogging as much as I should be.  But I also haven't been sitting around on my duff, not doing anything.  I've been busy, busy.  During the week, when I get home from my tedious day job (that seems to get more tedious by the week), I take care of Buster and get to writing.  If I don't get to writing right away, I have to get to the gym first and THEN get to writing.  And on the weekends, after I get up at the buttcrack of dawn, I write for a while, head to the gym, come back and, either start writing right away, or take care of Buster and some housework and THEN get to writing.  Needless to say, I've been writing a lot. On top of all the writing, gym, fatherly duties, and housework, I've been doing whatever I can to continuously promote Luthor and Blue Moon and The Rise of The Son . I have also recently managed to get all of the Johnny & Joey books onto Kindle, so they can reach a whole new audience. I was hop...

Ain't life strange? Things change from one year to the next.  Things change from one DAY to the next, more like it.  I'm not one for change.  I've had the same job for 23 years, the same man (thank God) for 21.  But there are times when change is good.  Yes, I know that's what they say.  But I've never bought into it. What the hell am I talking about?  I'm talking about publishing.  I'm talking about books.  I'm talking about eBooks.  I'm talking about paper vs. electronic.  Now let me start by saying, I love my printed books, and always will.  When the whole eBook thing started, I took it with a grain of salt because I knew it would never effect me.  I didn't see the appeal of reading a book on a screen.  I'm very OCD about my printed books and love to hold them in my hands. But then . . . things started to change. I purchased an iPad, fell in love with it, and wanted to use it in as many ways as p...