Weekly Update 66
Hello and welcome to Seth Oberlender’s weekly update blog! My name is Seth Oberlender, and I am a writer on a quest to become a traditionally published author. I have worked hard on my first novel, The Void Full of Starlight, and have been on the hunt for representation for a year now. The search has been longer than expected, but still, I march on.
…and the march continues again this week. No bites as of yet, and despite the tone of the first paragraph, the rejections are getting to me. I find myself focusing more and more on other potential projects to self-publish as a vehicle for my name and a source of inspiration. If I can get a book I wrote on shelves or in people’s hands, I think I might die from excitement.
In my personal life, I have been reading and playing more video games. Work is becoming more and more stressful as the school year comes to a close, so I have been trying to find catharsis in art. I am about seventy-five percent through Spiderman 2 on the PS5 and the game is still just as good as the day I took a break from it. I also have been tinkering with a city builder/survival sim named Frostpunk. It is fun but a little too stressful for my life at the moment. I had an odd hankering for a top-down strategy game and Frostpunk was on sale at the time. If you enjoy games like Sim City or the Tycoon series, you will enjoy Frostpunk. It also reminds me of the board game Scythe.
I also just got done reading Maneater by Emily Antoinette. Look, we don’t talk about book recommendations a lot here, but if you like romance you have to get this book. It is a fantasy romance that is very steamy (I found this on book Tok. That should give you an idea). It is about a shy male which who saves a confident succubus from a group of other witches. It is so adorable and fun, and the biggest theme of it is consent which I found refreshing. Not for the faint of heart though, I kind of hope my parents skip this part of the update… you should totally get it though!
I plan on doing a lot more reading and writing over the summer, so if you have any book recommendations feel free to leave a comment on this blog post. Look at me, asking for you to leave a comment. I must be growing more confident!
Ok, time to get back to work. Two more weeks of school and then I can relax. See you all next week!
