Business Diary 9/8/2021

by • Business Diary, Murder She Watched

Another diary post! This WorkFlow list is wonderful, so long as the fool on the receiving end follows it.

Today, I have to add “Write cast list for ‘The Adventure of the Western Star’ and ‘Sleuth (1972)’” to the list. This is part of the “Murder, She Watched” project, in which Teresa watches and reviews 200 movies based on or inspired by Agatha Christie. Currently, we’re watching an episode of Poirot on Wednesday, and an AC movie on Friday.

The cast list performs two functions: it’ll appear in the book, and also lets us keep track of the story and decide who will be featured in one of the six cast slots.

We’re also building the trade paperback version along the way, so that early in 2023, we’ll publish the book soon after finishing the last movie. This meant a lot of preplanning and trial and error, but the result looks pretty fabulous.

Here’s an example:

murder she watched test page
Test page for “Murder, She Watched”

I’ll also be working down the list of items mentioned in the last post, so let’s get started!