Moe Lane's Blog, page 33

Announcing the upcoming TINSEL RAIN audiobook! …In a while. (Buy the book!)

My voice actor for that really wants to narrate the book, so I’m trying to negotiate her price upward. If I succeed, I’ll likely do a crowdfunding to cover the extra. At any rate, I spent the day going through the text file for TINSEL RAIN.

…Turns out the book’s pretty damned good, if I do say so myself. Buy it!

The WAR OF THE WORLDS Honest Trailer.

I’m getting big ‘if we had to suffer, you will have to suffer, too’ vibes from Honest Trailers here. Or maybe not: I no longer have any urge to watch WAR OF THE WORLDS. Not that I actually had the urge, but you know what I mean.

A discussion is going on regarding TINSEL RAIN.

I don’t want to talk about it until the final details are locked in, but I will say that it’s something that is overdue. Keep watching the skies! …And buy a copy of TINSEL RAIN, if you haven’t yet.

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‘Punkrocker.’

Punkrocker, Teddybears

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My Once Upon A Con after-report.

It went extremely well! …For me, and the other authors/vendors. I sold a bunch of books, and I wasn’t even fully part of the entire scene (this was very much a romantasy convention). I also got to spend some time with my sister-in-law, and a bit more with my wife. I have been a bit out of it today, because my social batteries were spluttering out by Sunday morning, but all in all it went well enough that I probably should do this con again next year, despite the fact that the table fee’s gonna double.

Assuming there is a con next year. There were apparently a lot of teething troubles, as well as con drama. I’m very glad I did it, but this weekend was hardly without stress.

Moe Lane

PS: Also, I’m bringing a second table from now on. It makes things so much easier.

PPS: Also-also, I updated my LinkTree.

PPPS: Also-also-I’ll stop now, I need to think about a cheap place to score stickers.

‘Jyn’s Heroes.’

I dunno why, but this recut ROGUE ONE trailer is fire. Maybe because that movie sort of is a Seventies movie, in its way. A lot of messed-up people dealing with a messed-up situation, and sometimes that best thing you can do is to give the bad guys the finger on your way down the elevator shaft.

Maybe that’s why I like this movie so much. It’s one of the few Star Wars things made in the Disney era that actually has something to say.

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Patreon Microfiction: “Who’s a Good Murder Beast? Who?”

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Third and last day at Once Upon A Con.

BEHOLD! (We moved tables around.)

BEHOLD! (New setup.) pic.twitter.com/VtPrghMiFS

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) August 17, 2025

It’s been a good sales weekend so far, and hopefully I’ll score a couple more today before we close. It’s been a very energetic few days, though. I’m not used to this level of sustained sociability.

Oh! Here’s my LinkTree. Very useful for finding all my stuff.

A good day, and a lonnnng one.

The venue… is not very good at being a convention venue. The venue also knows that it has no need to be very good, and I feel this is reflected in their operating procedures. It didn’t affect my sales today, but it’s definitely going to be a thing, the next time this convention is put on.

Moe Lane

PS: I probably shouldn’t say anything more specific than that.

Book of the Week: Call for the Dead.

Yeah, I finally got around to start reading John Le Carre’s George Smiley novels, starting with Call for the Dead. I have a lot of stuff to read. Gimme a break.

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