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August 13, 2025
The Once Upon A Con MORGAN BAROD 99 cent digital sale has begun!
MORGAN BAROD will be 99 cents on Kindle for all of Once Upon A Con, and a few days beyond that, too. Sword and Sorcery in the post-apocalyptic wilds of New Jersey! There are vampires! There are battles! There are quests! There are giant carnivorous squirrels fighting our hero on a New Brunswick overpass, because I hate it when book covers don’t match the contents! Check it out today!
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WEAPONS is good, and so must be stopped.
This is what we in the business call a Shot / Chaser. (Both links GeekTyrant.)
Shot:
As it happens, I agree with Josh Brolin: WEAPONS is a very good flick, and the opposite of boring. Without going into spoilers, it manages to juggle horror and comedy, while at the same time playing around with… well, it was sort of like a “non-linear narrative,” except that it wasn’t pretentious and stupid. I was expecting to be mildly good, and was very pleasantly surprised at how good and original it was.
So, naturally, Hollywood will want to neuter this movie right away. It’s like ARRIVAL. God forbid we should develop higher expectations, right? So they want to now do a prequel, just to give answers to questions that nobody’s asking. I don’t need to know the motivation of the villain. I saw it on the screen. It was all about evil, and greed. There. Now let’s get back to the film.
I swear to God, but these people need to learn to get out of their own way…
Moe Lane
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Tweet of the Day, I’m Impressed With The Straight Face edition.
You don’t usually get to see this kind of calm, non-threatening insane. Obviously, it’s a bit – but even if it wasn’t, I’m pretty sure you could trust this guy to be around knives. That’s not nothing.
My man got the warning you need to listen to.
— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) August 13, 2025
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08/13/2025 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.
Decided to route around the blockage and keep going. Have the chapter otherwise finished, so go me.
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If Anda-Lee had wanted to keep Catalina away to make more room in that shack, she needn’t have bothered. She, me, and Lisa-Jo were joined by a guy who called himself “Big Pixuna.” The four of us had barely enough chairs for everybody to sit, and it was close enough in there that I was glad we weren’t having this talk at noon. The dude didn’t care, though. Judging from his intermittent eyeballing, he was there just in case I wanted to get fresh with Las Hermanas. Which bugged me, but I decided to let it go. I was pretty far from Cin City, after all. You have to make allowances.
I allowed myself a measure of petty revenge by acting like Big Pixuna wasn’t even there. “You hear about the sea monster problem?” I asked Anda-Lee. “The one you don’t have?”
Lisa-Jo sighed, like you do when somebody is here to talk about the thing after all. She stood up, started rummaging through the tumbledown shelves covering the walls until she found a bottle full enough to slosh. She put it and a few chipped mugs on the low table more or less in front of us. “Maybe,” she said as she poured herself a snort of whatever-it-was.
“Maybe?” I cleverly retorted. “Sea monsters are pretty, you know, physical. Either you have them, or you don’t.”
“Only if you see them,” Lisa-Jo replied. “And since nobody saw them, we can’t say we do.”
“It’s not that bad,” Anda-Lee added as she took her own knock. “We can say we do, sure. Nobody will listen, but we can say.”
“You can say,” Big Pixuna added. I expected a rumble, but he talked with a smooth rhythm. “Boarders, they drift. They like different sand under their toes.”
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August 12, 2025
Okay, I’m done for the night.
I had to do a lot of infrastructure work and fiddle with things and I have the creativity of a wet noodle right now. It’s early bed for me and a decent night’s sleep. See you all tomorrow.
Okay, I have a storefront.
You will be able to buy signed copies of my books and RPG worldbook there, as well as an art print of the art above. USA shipping only, sorry.
Check out ‘Mambo’s Magnificent Museum’ on Portals to Adventure!
This is the final week of voting on Portals to Adventure. From the site: “Vote for the remaining 20 finalists to decide the top 10 who get published as part of World’s Largest Dungeon, and who becomes the ultimate winner!” A friend of mine has a couple of entries in the final round; she’s concentrating on her Mambo’s Magnificent Museum entry. So check it out!
Note: this is a crowdfunding sort of thing. You buy votes, a buck a pop, max of ten, and the top ten vote-getters split the pot. I dunno if it’s evenly. I tossed in.
FrightReads Schedule!
I think I’m on the Authors 101 schedule for FrightReads. I usually am. Anyway, come on by, September 13th and 14th, at the Howard County Fairgrounds!
Moe Lane
PS: If you can’t make it, feel free to buy my books!
August 11, 2025
‘She Drives Me Crazy.’
She Drives Me Crazy, Fine Young Cannibals
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