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May 4, 2022
Book vending schedule, 2022.
This is so far:
Balticon (May 28-30). The convention starts Friday, but I’ll be there Saturday. Probably will commute, because the hotel’s expensive and it’s an easy drive for me.Galactic Con (tentative) (June 11). This one is a day-trip, and I haven’t gotten it confirmed yet. Hoping to have TINSEL RAIN published at that point, but I probably won’t have the print books.Fright Reads (October 1). Will have TINSEL RAIN in print by then! Hopefully. Maybe other stuff.As you can see, I have room in the schedule for July-September. I’ll be keeping an eye out for other prospective vending venues.
The new OBI-WAN KENOBI trailer.
Guess Obi-Wan Kenobi is not staying on Tatooine for the entire series. Which makes sense, since if there’s a bright center to the universe, that’s the planet that it’s farthest from. Best to go somewhere else, hey?
Also, it has good-looking, black-armored, hawk-faced women with lightsabers. I’m not going to pretend: this is a part of my aesthetic. I’m down to watch that.
Caught up on TINSEL RAIN edits!
Huzzah! Now I can sit and glare at my computer screen in peace. Twitter’s decided this site is suspicious again, you see. So now I get to spend two weeks reporting every spurious report to their automated system, until a human finally notices the reports building up and checks. At least, that’s what I assume happens. Twitter never actually bothers to tell people why they do things, how to fix problems, or why they reverse their decisions.
And they wonder why they’re being bought out. …Serenity now, Moe. Serenity now.
Still, at least I got those chapter edits chewed through. About half done!
Finished up MOON KNIGHT.
Good show. Good show. The final episode had to tie up a bunch of stuff together, and – pious protestations by the MOON KNIGHT folks aside – they absolutely laid the bricks for a second season. I didn’t read the comics, but the people who did all seem pretty jazzed at how much stuff from them were in the series.
Is MOON KNIGHT the best of the Marvel Disney+ series? Tough call: LOKI in particular still gives it a run for its money. But those two were the only shows that I made to sure to watch on the day of release. That’s probably diagnostic.
May the Fourth be with You.
Happy Star Wars Day! I personally think ROGUE ONE and THE MANDALORIAN have been the best of the modern bunch of Star Wars. But then, I haven’t watched all that much of the animated stuff. Your mileage may, as they say, vary.
May 3, 2022
Up to Chapter 9 in TINSEL RAIN edits!
At this rate I shall be caught up… soon. Which is excellent: I had let the work pile up. At this rate, pretty soon I’ll need to get the paperback book cover for TINSEL RAIN put together. I tend to do them myself when it’s a chapbook*, but when it comes to the novels I let a professional handle things.
Moe Lane
*My chapbooks, in case you haven’t figured out, are exercises in frugality. I practice my editing on them myself, do layout and everything, and try not to spend any money outside of the art. Honestly, spending money on art is one of the unexpected perks of this entire authorial thing. It’s… affirming.
#commissionearned
The WEIRD Trailer.
If you don’t know who I’m talking about, then… okay, fine, it’s a Weird Al Yankovic biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe, and which looks to be taking numerous but hysterical liberties with the historical record. I mean, seriously. The man is almost embarrassingly clean-cut.
I’m totally going to watch WEIRD, of course. I’m the target demographic! …And some of you folks too, I guess.
THE BATMAN Honest Trailer.
Not sure if Honest Trailers liked or hated THE BATMAN; they batted it around a bit, but didn’t really throw too many hard punches. Personally, I liked the movie. It had a definite ARKHAM CITY vibe to it, which I’m down with.
I skipped the musical video they linked to at the end, though.
#commissionearned
