EELS! Update 🌀

And This Week In Fluffles

Well, I did it. I finished writing my second book 🎉.

EELS! 🐍

Full title: EELS!: This Tsunami Bites.

EELS! is a eco-disaster/horror/survival thriller that takes place in my current hometown of Newport, Oregon.

Here is my EELS! elevator pitch: When “The Big One” hits the Oregon Coast, the tsunami leaves more than water behind. Bioluminescent man-eating eels are everywhere. And they’re hungry.

The book is in final-final production. I’ll keep everybody updated as to publication date. There were delays (researching eels). 🤔

Photo by Wouter Naert (not me… I don’t know how to scuba dive)

This Week In Writing & Living

I’ve been writing.

And outlining.

A lot.

I started my next book immediately after EELS! was complete. It’s important to get on the literary horse and ride it like a lunatic until the next mental breakdown.

In sad news, the ‘Shift+N’ stopped working on my laptop. It’s amazing how many capital Ns a person needs when writing a book. Now I have to caplock+N instead of shift+N to get a capital “N.” Life can be rough.

In Rockwell Family News: We went out to eat at a great restaurant Local Ocean last Sunday to celebrate a birthday that wasn’t mine. It’s important to the birthday-person in question NOT to tell anybody at the restaurant/work/public that it’s his/her birthday. So I didn’t. If a group of waitrons had come over to sing at the table for his/her birthday I would have been murdered. 🔪

Below was the view from our table. Off in the distance you can see the Yaquina Bay Bridge. It’s very high and I get dizzy driving over it. So I don’t.

I Am Not Crossing That Bridge When I Come To It

The bridge has a prominent role in my upcoming book:

EELS!

(Have I mentioned EELS!??)

In Fluffles News

Here’s Fluffles being cranky about something.

Fluffles hates cleaning as much as I do. But she also hates messes. 😼

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A Quick Note On My “Name Change”.

I changed my name on Substack from “Adam Rockwell” to “Adam Lutzi Rockwell.” I have too many second cousins in Salt Lake City named Adam Rockwell muddying up the internet.

So now I’m: Adam Lutzi Rockwell!

It has a literary ring to it even though I’m decidedly not literary.

“Lutzi” was my grandfather’s middle name: “Norman Lutzi Rockwell” (the well-known over-the-road truck driver, not the famous painter). His actual name was “Norman Lutzy Rockwell” but changed it (himself, not legally) to “Lutzi”. Therefore, I was apparently named after a mispelling.

Very on-point for me 😹🛸

See you next week! I think. We’ll see if my computer holds on or if I’ll be doing all of my writing on the typewriter.

This typewriter is pushy. Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

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