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Saturday chapbook Kindle sale!

Remember: my 99 cent chapbook sale starts Saturday. Check out my profile for a link if you can’t wait.

I’m trying to switch things up a little when I put that up on Twitter, mostly involving not using the same image and trying to sound less like an ad. Also, no links, just a suggestion to look at the profile. We’ll see how that goes.

The Love Hurts trailer.

I cannot beat the first comment to the LOVE HURTS trailer.

I’m not even going to try. I’m not going to object, either. I’m down for some martial arts comedy, sure.

Had a good conversation on social media throttling.

As in, it’s suspected that various social media algorithms are doing them to my posts. Apparently the engagement on my Twitter posts are not at all in line with my follower count. Also, social media engagement apparently has been pretty horrible in general lately.

How we fix this is another discussion entirely. Still, it’s nice to know that it’s not just me. Although ‘nice’ is maybe not the best word…

‘Jump in the Line.’

Jump in the Line, Harry Belafonte

The Revised and somewhat expanded ‘Audition’ is up on Patreon.

I was going to send this out to be sold somewhere, but: there’s nowhere to send it to. Novelettes and novellas are the bastard children of the writing world anyway, and all the paying venues are drowning in a sea of slush piles overflowing with AI popslop. Patreon is where the stories get sold, now. It’s all about the subscriptions.

So. Tell your friends!

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Moe Lane

PS: I’m giving serious consideration to expanding my Substack to include reprints of some of the stuff found here. I don’t know if I want to, though. Or if I want to create paywalled posts for said Substack, in addition to the free posts I do now over there. It’s a tough question for me.

The oddly nostalgic WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL trailer.

My kids are probably too old now for Wallace & Gromit. I don’t know if VENGEANCE MOST FOWL will interest them. I suspect not.

Tweet of the Day, I Am Not Accommodating iOS On My Patreon edition.

Short version is: part of the change on this is that Patreon is doing a mandatory switch to a subscription billing model, instead of first-of-the-month billing. I don’t expect to get any new readers from Apple products anyway; my readers seem indifferent to the proposed change; and every time something does change in this sort of thing, somebody unsubscribes*. It’s not in my best interests to mess with the status quo, in other words.

So no thanks.

Starting 11/1, if you purchase a Patreon membership or show from our Patreon store through the iOS app, Apple will charge you a 30% fee. This fee will not affect members who join 10/31 or earlier. We recommend using a different app/platform to make purchases starting 11/1. pic.twitter.com/le8leCmWRa

— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) October 21, 2024

Patreon!

*Yeah, I know the last two points come across as contradictory. They’re also both true. Sue me.

10/21/2024 Snippet, NEVER RETURN.

Actually making good progress! This will not be a novelette.

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But with the ward now anchored (and no longer drawing power from my own magic, which was both good and bad), I could more freely use my potent spells. The great weakness of ghosts is that they require a focus. Wreck the focus, weaken the ghost. To do that you must first find the focus, which is the simplest thing in the world if you know the right spell. I do. Every schoolchild in the country studies it in school. It was the work of a moment to cast it…

… “Damnation,” I muttered (I do not apologize for the profanity, for it was quite apropos). “This is not a ghost.”

“What?” My two companions could not have echoed each other more fully if they had practiced.

“It’s not a ghost, gentlemen! It’s something else!” I prepared another spell, one not specific to specters, ghosts, spooks, or haunts. Hopefully, what it lacked in precision it would gain in unsubtlety. “When I blast it, ‘stand not on the order of your coming, but go at once!’”

The World of Darkness Humble Bundle.

Via GeekTyrant. I have a lot of 5th edition Vampire: the Masquerade in hardback already, and the $40 deal is… really actually pretty good, honestly. Likewise the $18 deal, which skips the physical rewards entirely. They’re just the card game anyway, and I don’t play card games anymore.

Check it out.

‘Sleepless Lullaby.’

Sleepless Lullaby, Bright September

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