http://tonemilazzo.com The Tone Report Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:54:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1212 It’s hard to believe that I’ve been hating on The Phantom Menace for almost 10 years now. Though that’s not really true, I don’t feel strongly enough about Star Wars to really hate anything about it. I don’t even hate Ewoks, never did. I need a new emotion for how I feel, whatever is at [...]]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1206 http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1204 After I spend 15 minutes cleaning shit out of my dog’s butt hair it’s hard for me to work up the will to make a sandwich. No matter how hungry I am. He’s hairier than a Greek sailor back there and we’re getting it trimmed tomorrow. He couldn’t wait 24 hours, could he? ]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1202 Tu Publishing is hoping to kickstart within the next couple of days and I want them to. Because they’d be a good match for Picking Up the Ghost. My endorsements are purely motivated by self-interest. ]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1199 In my queries a lot of agents want to know about me. “What is it about you that makes you uniquely qualified to write this book?” Nothing. Picking Up the Ghost is about a poor, African-American kid dealing with ghosts and voodoo in a run down Midwest town. I’m a white, software engineer from San Diego [...]]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1194 http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1188 Neil Gaiman’s in China which is weird to me. Because just about everything he’s written has had a ghost or spirit in it and as I understand it ghosts aren’t allowed in books or movies by the Communist government (which gave up on actual communism years ago) . Why? Because they’ve been trying to suppress the [...]]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1185 Imperial Japanese Navy. US Marine Corps. Fight! There’s a elegance to a simple idea well executed. Two sides, three character types, three islands all carnage. The guns sound like actual guns, that includes impacts, what I really liked was that gun fire from far away has that some muffled sound they do in real life. Someone should have [...]]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1179 Not much. Still looking for an agent and a publisher for Picking Up the Ghost. Still getting married next month and we’ve been busy getting the last of the planning done. Oh, I lost my job, that’s new. And while I’m looking for work I’ve been studying Java ME for the Blackberry. Ultimately I’d like to develop a [...]]]> http://tonemilazzo.com/?p=1177