Moe Lane's Blog, page 22
September 12, 2025
BEHOLD! My FrightReads setup.
Went over tonight to set everything up. Glad I did, too. It’s gonna be extremely chaotic tomorrow.
Behold! pic.twitter.com/4zvjxb4m20
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) September 13, 2025
No backstop this time, but note the inverted L. I’m very curious to see if this helps keep lingering at my station. I’m also using the new racks to capitalize on my corner space and get my tapestries shown. It should be fun tomorrow!
Moe Lane
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September 11, 2025
The usual light posting this weekend.
I’m going over tomorrow night to set up for FrightReads, since I can get in early and figure out my table configuration for Saturday and Sunday. It’s only a shortish drive, so no worries there. But it’s also sort of the first time I’ll be in this location*, so I don’t know how it’ll all shake out.
As always, check out my books here if you can’t make it.
*I’ve done venues at the Howard County Fairgrounds before. Just not this one.
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09/11/2025 Snippet, BRAVING THE MALSTORM.
Fight!
A bow isn’t my weapon of choice. It’s good for two things, and I only like doing one of them. So I told myself that this was target practice, not causing more pain to a thing that should never have been created in the first place, and kept firing as I backed up. Zeke and I had just a few more feet to go…
We had almost gotten it over the weakest part of the roof when the rampager did something unfortunately intelligent; it threw crap at us. Like, the monster ripped up an entire chunk of the roof and heaved it in our general direction. It wasn’t a very accurate throw, but it was also a very large chunk.
Zeke and I dove for cover. If we had picked the same direction we might not have made it off of that roof, because the rampager was faster than it looked. It definitely wanted us for dinner, or possibly just pain, and one of the problems with dodging is that it takes a moment to recover from that.
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BEHOLD! Art from BANSHEE BEACH.
I need to get this framed.
BEHOLD! Physical art from BANSHEE BEACH. pic.twitter.com/DAWbXIH1DW
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) September 11, 2025
…Actually, I need to update my ego wall. I have plenty of book covers to draw from (buy my books!), after all.
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09/11/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOSTS (Part 2)
Axe!
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The light showed a charnel scene. A dried-out and long-dessicated charnel scene, so old that the apprehension and horror had leached away and replaced with melancholy, and a terrible pity. Many dark things are pointlessly done where no-one can see.
There had been a battle here: a savage one, fell and grim, and with no survivors. Most of the central area was filled with the hollowed-out remains of thorny vines, each one as big around as one of Oxman’s arms. They had swarmed up the walls, all tangled up with each other — and the moldering remains of a score of fighters, each one dressed in gear so old, it could have come from before the end of the world. In the center was a great trunk, transfixed in twain by an odd-looking axe. “Is that an adze on the other end of the blade?” asked Nat, careful not to go too close. It was never wise to touch an unfamiliar weapon, particularly when it was caught up in something uncanny.
“Yes. It’s a pull-axe,” Oxman told him. “The Old Americans used them as tools for fighting fires. To pull away burning wood, you see? They’re not used much in the Marches, though.”
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September 10, 2025
Still waiting on my table location for FrightReads…
…but I’ll be in Hall 1 at Risucon. It looks like a pretty good spot: end corner, so I should have plenty of room to set up an L-shaped display. Looking forward to trying it out.
I guess I will see the Spinal Tap sequel another day, then.
Just can’t manage it now, that’s all.
