Moe Lane's Blog, page 677

Back to regular creativity tomorrow, I think.

I need to get my daily word count back up to respectable levels. I’d like to get either TINSEL RAIN or PROJECT SHIVA (remember that project?) in manuscript shape by the end of September. I think I know what’s wrong with the latter, aside from it being the first really long manuscript I ever worked on and I was working by guess and by God.

Hell, if I get into some kind of shape I could, you know, submit it. Just to get the practice in, and all that. Besides, it’d be nice if somebody else did all the damn heavy lifting in publishing one of my books for once.

Some concept clips of Bethesda’s STARFIELD.

Found here. I like the drug pleasure ocean city locale. Although I’ll probably end up yelling “Why don’t you people ever clean anything UP?” at it. I do that a lot in Fallout 4.

Book of the Week: SEMPER MARS.

Oorah.

(Full title: SEMPER MARS: BOOK ONE OF THE HERITAGE TRILOGY, by Ian Douglas.)

I am TESTING an Amazon ad campaign for MORGAN BAROD.

It’s a mild milestone for me: I have a tiny bit of give in the budget, so I thought I’d set up an advertising test run for MORGAN BAROD and see if it does anything. Perhaps it will, perhaps it will not, it never hurts to check. In the meantime: buy my books!

‘Macarena.’

I first really heard this on a transatlantic flight. For hours. And I was vaguely half-drunk and dehydrated for most of it.

Macarena, Los Del Rio

Tweet of the Day, These Arby D&D Dice Are Sold Out But I’m Signed Up edition.

They’ll let me know when they’re available.

D&D Dice https://t.co/vOqUBESVo4

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) August 27, 2021

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PS: I actually quite like Arby’s. For when I want the stuff that’s on their menu.

Got the artwork back for DECISIONS!

I’ll probably be using this for the cover:

…but I’m not even thinking about putting the chapbook together until tomorrow. It’s been a damned long week already. Month, really. I can go watch Spider-Man movies* tonight.

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*We watched the first Garfield one last night. My kids and I agree that he’s a very good Spidey, but Maguire’s the better Peter Parker. Which is conventional wisdom, but so what? It’s still true.

MORGAN BAROD: Now available in paperback!

MORGAN BAROD! For all your post-apocalyptic, sword-and-sorcery in the wilds of New Jersey needs. Get it in paperback! (Or Kindle, if you prefer that instead.)

‘People Are Strange.’

People Are Strange, The Doors

Hey, they’re remaking NOSFERATU.

“They” being “Robert Eggers.” Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I find the original NOSFERATU a bit of a slog. I don’t want to, but it’s difficult for me to get into some of the oldest movies. Which was one reason* why I liked SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE so much; it made the original more accessible to me. So I don’t mind the idea of a remake at all. It should be wonderfully creepy.

Mind you, it’s gonna be a few years before it comes out.

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*The other reason is just so utterly jaded the Weimar filmmakers were in the film. The aforementioned vampire is not even close to the weirdest, or most disturbing, thing those people had seen. It’s a great flick.