Moe Lane's Blog, page 551
June 19, 2022
Tomorrow, I prep the dining room for TINSEL RAIN processing.
I have to create sample packages, weigh them, and calculate postage. I should probably also sign the copies of TINSEL RAIN that are going out, as well. But I won’t have as many to do this time, which… roughly evens out on the fortunate/unfortunate spectrum, I guess. A lot less of a pain to get everything ready, this time.
Once that’s done, I can see about locking accounts, generating postage, and getting the blessed things out. After that, I can finish the digital rewards. And after that… GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND needs finishing. The sooner I have a manuscript that’s ready to be read and edited, the sooner I can start trying to figure out how to publish it.
#commissionearned
Happy Juneteenth!
I’d like to note for the record that this website was celebrating Juneteenth well before all the cool kids took the holiday up. It’s just so commercial, now. …No, wait, that’s a good thing*. Never mind!
Moe Lane
*Just like ending slavery in the United States was.
Happy Fathers Day!
I can never remember where the apostrophe goes. And no, I’m not going look it up. I don’t feel like looking it up, frankly. I feel like puttering around and maybe going to get some fresh air, because it’s nice out. I got a baronial meeting this evening, and not a damned thing to do between now and then.
Anyway, Happy Father[‘]s[‘] Day, to all the dads out there!
Patreon Microfiction: Not Your Problem.
If ‘Not Your Problem’ is bleak, it’s uniquely so. I mean, tough luck on the infinitely future cosmos, sure. But this doesn’t sound like a particularly bad deal for us. I mean, I don’t even really remember the apartment my family had in Brooklyn.
Patreon!June 18, 2022
‘Beat It.’
#commissionearned
The TINSEL RAIN books are in!
Behold!
Behold! pic.twitter.com/ixJEek0EeV
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) June 18, 2022
I’ve tentatively penciled in Monday as the day I start preparing books and whatnot for TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter fulfilment. I have to assemble sample packages, weigh, and assign postage for them. Once I have an idea about that, I can lock orders, buy the postage, and mail out the books! Huzzah!
#commissionearned
Book of the Week: Our Man In Charleston.
My wife turned me onto Christopher Dickey’s Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South, and I’m about halfway through it. It’s pretty good: OMIC is Robert Bunch, British consul in Charleston for the 1850s and 1860s. And oh, but did he have Views about the antebellum South in general, and South Carolina in particular. Dickey’s writing is accurate in the parts I already knew about, which presumably means he’s decently sound on the topic in general, and the book itself is well-written. Go ahead and check it out.
Item Seed: Burlingame’s Round.
Mostly because I felt like it. Art for art’s sake, and all that.
Burlingames-Round-Google-DocsDownloadTweet of the Day, Fortunately, This Never Happened To Me edition.
I come from an artistic family. One sister is a graphic designer, another danced, and my mom does… well, everything, really. Both of my kids are on the art track, and that’s cool. That’s real cool.
But it doesn’t mean I don’t see this comic’s point.
Cultivating Creativity in Your Child! [Comic] https://t.co/7ghCJDooP8
— Geeks are Sexy (@geeksaresexy) June 18, 2022
