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Speaking of beta readers…

…I’m going to need some for TINSEL RAIN. You wouldn’t get the draft until February at the earliest, and turnaround time on it would be about a month (although there’s flexibility, there: the limiting factor for publishing this book is cash flow). Leave a comment or email me if you’re interested.

Moe

PS: I’ve also decided to take the rest of the month off from working on GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND. I’ve been novel-writing constantly for two straight months; I can afford to take off from that for two weeks. This is supposed to be fun, not mildly oppressive.

Tweet of the Day, YOU CAN HAVE MY FRENCH DRESSING WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD HA… Wait, What’s That? Oh. Never Mind edition.

I was ready to go to war.

NO LONGER SERVES AS A BENCHMARK FOR OTHER DRESSINGS… repeat… NO LONGER SERVES AS A BENCHMARK FOR OTHER DRESSINGShttps://t.co/MXOsNho5ID

— Robin D. Laws (@RobinDLaws) January 12, 2022

Then I read the article, and I realized that my favorite brands wouldn’t actually change their recipes. So, you know, never mind.

Moe Lane

PS: THIS IS AMERICA, AND I WILL PUT WHATEVER I DAMNED WELL PLEASE ON MY ICEBERG LETTUCE, CUCUMBER SLICES, AND SHREDDED CHEDDAR CHEESE SALALD.

The DEATH ON THE NILE trailer.

Oddly, I’ve never seen Branagh’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.

I say ‘oddly’ because I read a lot of Agatha Christie as a teenager (incidentally, I recommend a perusal of Randall Garrett’s The Napoli Express). I don’t know why. Possibly because the reviews were kind of meh? – But they made a sequel, so there’s that. Maybe I should pick up the first one and watch it. …Or, more accurately, add it to the pile. Anyway: this does look good. Maybe I will catch DEATH ON THE NILE, after all.

#commissionearned

First third-ish of TINSEL RAIN back from my alpha reader!

Yup. Ready to be checked and looked at and revised where needed. Alllll ready.

Any second now.

Look at me go!

Huzzah!

More seriously, I have Friday night blocked out for doing the first revisions of TINSEL RAIN. The edits themselves should go pretty smoothly: my alpha told me that there wasn’t anything disastrous in the first section (which is an improvement on the FROZEN DREAMS first draft, let me tell you). So we’re still on track for getting the book to the yet-to-be-determined beta readers in February, and starting the Kickstarter (and hopefully, the editing) in March. Huzzah!

…For real, this time.

#commissionearned

‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno.’

This is now the family earworm. IF I CANNOT ESCAPE IT, THAN NEITHER CAN YOU.

We Don’t Talk About Bruno, Encanto

#commissionearned

The “This is incredibly, wonderfully stupid” MOONFALL trailer.

MOONFALL is absolutely INSANE.

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01/11/21 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.

Commiseration!

Patreon!

Syah went on, “I liked her, right from the start. Chook was good to people. The first day I came in, she spent the whole morning getting to know me. None of that corporate crap about favorite bands or shared commonalities, either. She wanted to know the way I liked to work, what things drove me nuts when other people did them, how to know when to distract me and when to leave me alone, things like that. By the end of the day it was like I had been there for months.”

“Yeah.” For a moment I was tempted to call him out on the ‘corporate crap’ part — Syah had a little bit of a chip on his shoulder about the folks paying our salaries — but I decided to let it slide. “Chook was great at getting along with everybody. And she meant it, too; you can tell when somebody cares. Guess that’s why she went into net interfacing.” I swigged my own beer. “That, and how nosy she was.”

That got me a grimace from Syah. “That was a little weird, yeah. I didn’t think Chook meant anything by it, and I know you have to know everything to interface properly, but she lived the life, huh?”

The MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS Honest Trailer.

Honest Trailers was… exasperated about MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS, I think. I haven’t actually sat down to watch it yet. I haven’t been able to watch anything lately. And yes, that kind of sucks.

In the mail: Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry series).

Quantum of Nightmares is the latest installment of Charlie Stross’s ongoing spies-and-Cthulhu-and-computers Laundry series. As I’ve said before, I still enjoy the Laundry series, but I’m simply not scared of the current events stuff that scares Charlie. It gives me a certain amount of relaxed detachment from it all, and he’s a good enough author to avoid the insidious trap of writing-as-whining. So this should be fun!

#commissionearned

The Mimics, An Unnecessary Work, for Use With Fantasy RPGs Kickstarter.

Phil Reed’s Mimics, An Unnecessary Work, for Use With Fantasy RPGs Kickstarter perhaps suffers from a slight incredulity that anybody might actually back the Mimics, An Unnecessary Work, for Use With Fantasy RPGs Kickstarter. Given that it’s only been a half hour and the game is already 31% backed, said incredulity might be unwarranted. Not that I think Phil really means it. I mean, why create a Kickstarter that you don’t think will fund?