Newsletter is out early as I have a script on deck that I absolutely have to push through today. Still eating relatively cleanly — last week ramped up quite dramatically and energy and health are going to be somewhat paramount for a bit because I don’t get any time off for another three weeks (I plan to hit the off button, unplug and go dark for a long weekend to get some recovery in).

Show launch seems to be going well, but it’ll be a while before we have any data or news. Always a tricky time.

I’m up, already scheduling and making notes. Inbox is at 16, and I’m at the desk all day today. Yesterday turned into a big email day, setting several things up for later in the year. Moving things from the Pending board to the Work On Deck board, sliding off social media post-show launch (apparently that’s going very well, somehow) and eating painkillers for breakfast. Good morning.

My eyes are shot, my hands are fucked and my schedule is sliiiightly on fire, but yesterday seemed like a good day. I almost avoided reading reviews, until Sam and Adam shoved one in my eyes – CASTLEVANIA S3 got a 10/10 review at IGN.

I’m putting Fimbul Radio on and getting back to work. Inbox is at 12 and it’s been a hell of a day already — staying on top of DMs and mails currently. Got a HEAVEN’S FOREST and a BATMAN’S GRAVE to write.

I am awake way too early, as I got woken by some delivery bastard at 7am and couldn’t get back to sleep, so today is going to be a challenge. Not what I needed on the day CASTLEVANIA Season 3 goes live! And we got the big hero image on the Netflix front page this time!

All congrats and love to crew and cast for getting this season out without dying.

Inbox 18, I am mainlining espresso, it’s gonna be a long day.

Oof. One day til the show launches. Yesterday turned into hails of emails and documents and I couldn’t get on top of them for long enough to do actual writing, so today is going to be a bastard. Inbox 5 and I am fried.

According to my roll-out calendar, we have new key art popping up on IG today, and I think crossposting that is my one show thing today. And then we go live tomorrow, I schedule the announcement assets, and then turn every damn thing off aside from Buffer to load in the post-launch assets as they drop. (By “assets” I mean pictures, gifs, videos, created and branded and set in motion by our excellent partners at the NX marketing operation, who have been brilliant all the way through this thing.)

Looking forward to getting back to normal service.

Image by Lordess Foudre. Who returns to the newsletter this weekend.

Today has been about managing cancelled flights – I guess the corvid bug is scaring the airlines – and cancelling hotels, managing CASTLEVANIA S3 pre-launch elements and getting ready to bunker down post-launch. Inbox 14, watching the news. Apparently videoconferencing application stocks are shooting up. 51 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK. I suspect the next few months are going to be difficult.

Five people die in car accidents in the UK every day, a number that does not affect whether or not people buy Zoom subscriptions.

Moving a little slowly today – there was a ton of overnight inbound to process. I have at least one phone conference today but frankly I’ve forgotten the list. Lots of little things getting done, while with my other hand I fart around with connecting possible ways to post more quickly/on the run to this site. (Which don’t work, I just discovered. Ah well.) Inbox 14, bit scattered today.

I’m up. Got to finish and send the newsletter. Inbox 8, things to do, and prepping for going dark after Season 3 goes live. Which means I am in fact shopping for new films, which I have to arrange to take possession of before the travel starts. The things to do include shaking out my travel bags and recovering and/or replacing items of travel kit – I’ve got three weeks to remember how to do all that before I start jumping over the water.

There’s going to be a significant amount of travel this year, I think. So I also have three weeks to get a little fitter and knock out or reduce some niggling physical issues. No such thing as a weekend here.

But I am going to curl up and re-read some of this book later today.

Five days out. I am about ready to crawl under a rock. I have a couple of days of phone interviews left to do and then I can crawl back under my rock. I have a huge stack of CDs to listen to and I may well go shopping for new films later. But today, writing the newsletter and doing development work on a project I know won’t go but it pleases me to write it.

Via BGR, surfaced by Adam Deats on Twitter overnight. Big phone conference on the other show today at 3, delivered my rewrite a day early so I’ve got today to get ahead on other stuff or possibly just lay here in a bleary heap because waking up was a struggle and it’s barely 3 degrees here. Inbox: 9. Dead Body Quotient: 9300 out of 10