Moe Lane's Blog, page 592
March 23, 2022
How many successful crowdfunding projects constitutes “Knows something about it?”
Obviously, my latest one ends tomorrow, and I’ve been thinking about the implications of this one. Obviously I’m not an expert at crowdfunding: if I was an expert, I’d have done better than 86 microsandersons* this go-round. But, four successful Kickstarters in a row does argue that I’m doing something right. And maybe I should start thinking about putting together a presentation, for like cons and stuff.
I dunno, though. I’m not sure how successful you have to be to usefully pontificate about this topic. And whether there’d even be enough interest to justify the effort. Thoughts?
Moe Lane
*1 sanderson = $30,000,000, so one microsanderson = 30,000,000/1,000,000 = $30. Technically it’d be 86.3 microsandersons, but who’s counting?
“…And then the murders began.”
Yeah. No way this could possibly end as a blood-soaked ghostdemon outbreak.
Jeffrey Epstein's 'Pedophile Island' is set to hit the market for $125M https://t.co/5PUC6MXmaP pic.twitter.com/G2ovR0K8Zt
— New York Post (@nypost) March 23, 2022
Via @SonnyBunch, who really should understand how these things inevitably play out. Which is to say, with ghostdemon outbreaks and a lot of people screaming.
THE ESOTERRORISTS Bundle of Holding.
I’m not in on this because I already have all of THE ESOTERRORISTS, which is Pelgrane Press’s innovative GUMSHOE game of investigating occult horrors and opposing the vilest of cults. Actually, let me check… yup. Got all of them. Well, except for the music. I usually don’t get the soundtracks.
Anyway, this is a good game that thinks about how sensible secret societies fighting vicious terrors might go about making sure their operatives remain sane, discreet, and effective. One does not ‘cowboy’ an Esoterrorist mission, in other words. Or, at least, one does not do so twice. I recommend picking up this Bundle of Holding.
Tweet of the Day, This Is Why Time Travelers Always Loot The Bodies edition.
Even if the clothes they came with were meticulously researched. They were also signed out, and God help you if you bring ’em back too damaged. Also: I dunno if I would make this a feature of a time travel show, but an episode of it would absolutely bring the comedy.
— TimeWatch RPG (@TimeWatchRPG) March 23, 2022
Today is the LAST DAY of my TINSEL RAIN fantasy novel Kickstarter!
We’ve admittedly got a slog to get to the audiobook level, but the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter has been a marked success. It’s certainly given me some flexibility for the rest of the year.
But there’s still a day left! So sign up today to get the extra short stories stretch goal! I don’t know when these post-apocalyptic science horror stories are ever getting published, so now is the time to grab them!
March 22, 2022
3/22/22 Snippet, THE DECALOGUE KILLER.
Like pulling teeth.
Patreon!So I wrote some stories. I didn’t call Walters the False Witness, but the moniker stuck anyway. They say the papers tell readers what to think, but it works the other way, too. The public figured a lawyer had to be the liar in this little blood-soaked play, so that’s what everybody else ended up writing.
Me, I was working on other stuff. Gloria might’ve put me on the murder beat, but it wasn’t where I did my best work. So I didn’t even try. Instead I went around and interviewed people about all the other victims, starting with the first guy and working my way down. There was a lot of what you’d call human interest stories, and at first I was getting them spiked pretty regularly.
But pretty soon it all started working out. See, the problem with chasing stories about the latest murder’s is, there’s a limit to how much you can write about it before you’re just writing the same thing. People want to hear about the blood in the alley and the mystery and the terror, sure — but they also want a story. Stories I can do, no problem. I just wished the cops would find the Decalogue Killer before I had to write any more about him.
So I went from two cups of coffee a day…
…to one cup regular, one cup decaf. My wife needs to cut back her own intake, so I decided to cut back myself to see if switching to decaf was an achievable goal. Besides, I figured: how much difference would that make? Well, for starters it seems to have given me a permanent -3 to my saving throws vs. nap. Intellectually, I knew I was sleep deprived. But the lower caffeine level is just making my body go Nope. Time for bed, friend.
The heck of it is, I might keep up with this anyway. I very possibly just need to… sleep more? Maybe it’d be good for me, and stuff?
God, it feels awful just to type that out.
The Oscars Honest Trailers.
I’m shocked. I saw one of these (Dune, obviously)! And now that I’ve watched this Oscars Honest Trailers, I don’t have to bother with the other ones..
#commissionearned
48 hours left on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter!
This is the home stretch for my TINSEL RAIN fantasy novel Kickstarter: we have passed the extra free fiction goal, and are halfway to the audiobook! Now is the time of final chances! Back my project today!
