Photo Shoot

Woke up with a killer migraine today. Tried everything I could to get rid of it; caffeine, over the counter meds, food, water, dim light, but nothing helped. Finally I just broke down and tried one of the sample prescription migraine drugs my neurologist gave me. I have a lovely assortment to try out, and I get a prescription for whichever I like best!

I wasn’t really thrilled at the prospect. Prescription drugs seem to come with as many downsides as up for me, and I have never met a painkiller that agreed with me. At best they don’t work, and at worst, they make me feel sick and miserable.

So I tried the first sample, Imitrex, and whaddaya know? It made me nauseous, and didn’t do a lot for the pain. It took the edge off, I guess, but that’s about it. I can still sense the migraine nearby, like something you see out of the corner of your eye. It’s hovering behind my head, getting ready to pounce again.

Whenever I have a migraine, I am pretty much useless for writing, so I tried to work on other things today to be productive. The marketing departments at Del Rey and Voyager sent me these long questionnaires to help them with publicity, so I spend the day finalizing them and sending them off. Voyager is looking to publish this fall, and they also wanted a photo to use in press releases and for my book jacket. I was going to just take something with my digital camera, but Amelia scolded me for that, and offered to do better. I felt bad imposing since she is 7 months pregnant, but she’s also the only professional photographer I know, so who was I to refuse? I just carried the heavy lights for her.

We did a pretty long photo shoot, taking bunch of portraits in my library. Out of 96 pictures, we eventually found one that wasn’t so bad, and I included that. Amelia is a great photographer, but it turns out I’m not nearly as handsome on film as I am in my own imagination. Alas.

Look for a lot of the other pictures to show up on the website after they are scanned and cleaned up. We took a lot of pictures of me in front of the Spear of Anoch Sun and the portrait of the Painted Man I had commissioned. I was waiting until some of those were ready to post them, but Myke keeps bitching to see the mounting, so here’s a quickie shot I took in the meantime. Sorry about the weird angle; it was hard to keep the flash from reflecting off the glass.

Sometime in the next few weeks, I will be adding a lot of new material to the website. There should be new stuff on almost every page. I’m sure all three of my loyal readers can’t wait!

Posted on March 11, 2008 at 10:02 pm by PeatB
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15 responses to “Photo Shoot”

  1. I can’t recommend prophylactic riboflavin highly enough. My neurologist recommended it to me, and it has made a massive difference. I’ve since recommended it to a friend who has an allergy to one of the ingredients in most migraine meds, and she can’t believe how much it’s helped her, either. I was more than skeptical initially, but it’s been amazing.

    Posted by Deanna Hoak, on March 12th, 2008 at 7:04 am
  2. Merrem!!!

    Posted by matt, on March 12th, 2008 at 7:41 am
  3. Neither of those are in my candy jar right now. I’ve yet to try Zomig and Maxalt. I’ll ask about prophylactic riboflavin the next time I go to the neurologist.

    (Even though the word “prophylactic” makes me think of condoms.)

    Posted by Peat, on March 12th, 2008 at 8:06 am
  4. Maxalt works well for me, though it does make me tired. Zomig doesn’t touch my migraines.

    Posted by Deanna Hoak, on March 12th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
  5. To the lay reader, it sounds like you’re talking about Martians.

    Posted by Myke, on March 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
  6. [I have nothing to offer on the migraine medication front sadly].
    I do like the author photo and was glad to see not only your comics proudly displayed behind you but also your Spidy, various other action figures including your very old and discolored Chewy (lets call him “trash compactor Chewbacca”).
    The photo of Painted Man illustration and the Spear look amazing on the wall. Really terrific.

    Posted by Jay, on March 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
  7. You look like one bad ass mother fucker in your photo. Like “Hell yes I am a proud geek, now worship.”

    The Painted Man photo looks awesome! And the spear looks fargin’ amazing too.
    🙂 Go Peat! It’s like you’re having two babies, the book and the one in Dani’s belly.

    😀

    Posted by Lo, on March 12th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
  8. Damn you, Jay Franco! That’s not “trash compactor Chewbacca”, that’s Chandra, my female Wookiee from my first-ever RPG! Not everyone can paint models as well as you, Mr Heroclix!

    Posted by dani, on March 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
  9. I’m a comic collecting fantasy author whose wife plays Star Wars RPG’s.

    God, our kid is going to be SUCH a nerd.

    Posted by Peat, on March 12th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
  10. A hot female nerd! Dude. I need to teach you how to shoot.

    Posted by Myke, on March 12th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
  11. I’m actually a pretty decent shot. With a rifle or bow, anyway. Never fired a handgun, but if you want to go to a range sometime, I’m there.

    Posted by Peat, on March 12th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
  12. Ha oh yeah… Merrem was the antibiotic. I meant ZOMIG! Or just eat a Scientia.

    Posted by matt, on March 13th, 2008 at 7:16 am
  13. Ah, Scientia. A perfect illustration of pharmaceutical publishing bullshit.

    It’s like science… but not.

    Posted by Peat, on March 13th, 2008 at 7:30 am
  14. Your content sounds a lot like Raymond E Feist’s – Rides a Rides a dread legion – Demon war saga.
    Why is that?

    Posted by Paul Myjavec, on July 7th, 2012 at 7:18 am
  15. I don’t know. I have only read Feist’s early Riftwar work. Perhaps the similarity in the series title?

    Posted by Peat, on July 7th, 2012 at 8:54 am