Hard on the wind, somewhere in the Gulf Stream

First: an apology. I didn’t mean to disappear without a trace; and it really didn’t occur to me that anyone would notice, let alone worry.

Second: thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you to my friends who wrote me when our Web site went offline. Thank you to my friends who wrote to say , “Is everything okay?” And thank you to my friends who wrote to say, “Hey, I miss you.”

Everything is fine. Peggy and I are spending some long overdue time with our children, having one of those family adventures that has been as much hard work as it has been adventurous fun. (Yesterday we sailed through a 40kts+ squall, with blinding rain so fierce it blocked our GPS signal for 15 minutes. Thank goodness for compasses and the rock solid reliability of the Earth’s magnetic field!)

I thought I might get some work done on this trip. Ha! If you think it’s hard to find time to edit while managing the marketing and promotion of a small film production company, try going sailing with two young children, a dog and a cat! So for those of you who have asked, no, there isn’t another film on the eve of release.

But, we’ll be back home before too much longer, and I’ve learned one thing that will (hopefully) help me get the next film finished. These films are good enough that they keep selling, even without me flogging them relentlessly. Hopefully that will help keep me from worrying that this will all come crashing down around me while I’m spending time in the edit bay instead of blogging, writing press releases, and generally blowing my own horn.

Speaking of blowing my own horn, some exciting news. Both DAMON AND HUNTER and ASHLEY AND KISHA will be a part of this year’s Israel International LGBT Film Festival, taking place June 24-28 in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa. And this morning we got a request to submit a screener of ASHLEY AND KISHA to New York’s Newfest. No, I won’t be going to Israel, so cross your fingers for Newfest. I’d really like to see ASHLEY AND KISHA play in front of an audience!

Now I’ve got to use the rest of my internet time to see if I can find an “Idiot’s Guide to Tapping Aluminum.” The boat’s boom and gooseneck are trying to part ways, and there’s still 500 miles between us and where we left our car…

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