I’m testing a new ‘section’ on the blog. I realized that not every entry has to be a deep discussion on a given topic. Sometimes it’s just as good to let random thoughts out of your head. Or in this case, my head. So it will be a semi-regular feature here for what’s good to have a blog if you can’t talk about whatever you want.

-I was talking with Brent about who would play our novel characters in a hypothetical film if money and time weren’t an objection (he wants Richard Armitage for Washington, I say that Jason Issacs would be a good Benedict Arnold and Lin-Manuel Miranda should do the soundtrack). Now considering the setting of my story, I think more than live action it would be an animated film so these picks could be the Voice Actors. Nonetheless here is my hypothetical cast:

• Fionn: Chris Evans (Brent and my wife say that it should be Chris Hemsworth)
• Gaby: Natalie Dormer or perhaps Daisy Ridley
• Alex: Diego Luna (the accent is key)
• Sam: Auli’i Cravalho or perhaps Caity Lotz
• Harland: Peter Dinklage
• Sid: Ryan Reynolds (I need someone that can portray sarcastic and hysteric with a hight pitch at the same time).

Wild dreams man!

-I will be traveling with my wife next week to the city of Vancouver for well-earned rest. As a side effect, I won’t be on the web as much as usual and I won’t be watching Star Wars: The Last of Us the Jedi until later this month, so please try to spare me the spoilers (I know, an impossible task, but had to ask).

-My wife asked me to watch Cherry Pop with her the other night, as it features alumni from RuPaul’s Dragrace. It has to be the second most weird, random movie I’ve ever seen, because nothing has surpassed so far the weirdness that was watching Jackie Chan singing about the friendship between Roman and Chinese soldiers alongside John Cusack -in eyeliner- in his action/musical/comedy/drama movie.

-I’m dashing to get a few pitches for the last PitMad tweet contest of the year. A good take could mean getting noticed by literary agents. Fingers crossed.

-On the topic of querying agents, I sent four queries, three haven’t replied, the one that did ask for a partial sample of 50 pages. Good sign I hope.

-On the final querying news: I sent my alt-history/steampunk/fantasy story about Romans, Greeks and trains ‘Steel Serpents’ to an SFWA magazine: ‘Beneath Ceaseless Skies’. Let’s hope it gets in.

-And finally, with the news of Disney buying 20th Century Fox film division (and all its properties), most people are talking about a potential return of the Fantastic Four to the MCU. But am I the only one that would actually prefer a Deadpool v. Spidey crossover? Just picture it:

Santa Mickey, please make it so.

See ya in a couple of weeks and happy holidays.

The soundtrack of the day: