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July 16, 2022
07/16/22 Patreon Pledge Drive.
New microfiction up! This is the weekly fiction reward. There’s also monthly short stories, and gaming material, too. Sign up today!
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So it’s official-official: my next chapbook will be DUTIES.
It’s official-official because I put down the down payment for the art. I hope to have DUTIES ready for Fright Reads, because that’ll mean I’ll have two new things for that event (the other being TINSEL RAIN). But definitely by the end of the year!
So now I just have to buckle down and get that chapbook ready for the readers. Yay…
Moe Lane
PS: It has been not the best month or so for my motivation, alas. But it’s not like I have a clone to foist off writing duty on…
#commissionearned
Book of the Week: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless.
I don’t care if I’ve done it before. I said Dauntless, and I mean it. I’ve spent the last week rereading The Lost Fleet, going from one book to the other in the literary equivalent of chain-smoking. I’m starting to worry about what happens when I run out of books to re-read, in fact. Maybe find some other Jack Campbell. There’s those Space JAG books, after all.
#commissionearned
July 15, 2022
07/15/2022 Patreon Pledge Drive. Pledge today!
Still in there, still swinging! A bunch of new stuff has been put up, and of course the regular stuff is still ticking nicely along. And we’re very close to the $200/month level! Weekly serial fiction! At least 2K/month of it! What a bargain.
Patreon!Did anybody see GONE IN THE NIGHT?
This review makes it sound interesting, and GONE IN THE NIGHT is out now, sorta. I mean, I’d have to drive for a half hour to go see it, but that’s not so bad. I did that for THE DEATH OF STALIN. Anybody see this one?
#commissionearned
The Monster Hunter International the Miniatures Game Kickstarter.
I’m not backing the MHI Miniatures Game Kickstarter solely because I don’t play with the miniatures I already have. And I don’t have space for a skirmish game that I’m not going to play, because I don’t play board games. But that’s just practicality talking. This looks way cool.
07/15/2022 Snippet, 2084.
TORTURE!
Patreon!He shifted to look at the other person in the room; a large fellow, dressed in the blue medical sweats that the Right and Honorable Guild of Deprogrammers favored. “Is this going to be enough, Dr. …Miles?”
“You wouldn’t think so, would you, Sir James?” Miles’ voice was warm, even soothing; it was a remarkable contrast from the battered, lightly-scarred face it was coming out of. “But sometimes even the look of proper food’s enough. Or the smell. The Invaders’ sepoys never ate well, even during the bad years. These days, the holdouts get just enough to not starve. Goodthink’s supposed to get them through the rest of it.”
He nodded to the prisoner. “That poor bastard, as you put it, he’s got a bellyful of goodthink in him right now. See how he’s mumbling? That’s him going over those Three Rules of theirs, trying to keep ‘em between him and the food. That, and the sign. He knows he’s supposed to obey anything official, especially if it’s written out in goodsay.”
“Even if the enemy wrote it?” Alex shook her head. “That’s a contradiction, isn’t it?”
“No,” Miles said. “It’s badthink.”
July 14, 2022
‘Bad Blood.’
I actually like 1989. It’s a pretty good pop album. Good for food shopping.
#commissionearned
A PSA on broken links.
If they are more than a year old, I probably don’t care. If they are more than six years old, I really don’t care. I’m certainly not going to respond to your thinly-disguised attempts to replace said links with ones leading to spam, phishing, and/or credit card fraud.
So cut it out.
Moe Lane
PS: This is not directed at anyone who actually reads this site. I’m just getting my slight exasperation on the record.
