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MORGAN BAROD is now live on Kindle!

Huzzah! Hopefully, the paperback will be approved soon.

I have pulled the trigger on MORGAN BAROD.

Frankly, with the damn week we’re all having it was either that, or break out the whiskey. I realized that I could download the print proof, as well as order it, so I spent today going through the text and making the last changes. I’m going to wait for the review process to finish, and then… I have, like, a little bit of an advertising budget! Fascinating, right?

Thanks to everybody who helped. MORGAN BAROD will be available for $4.99 Kindle, $12.99 in paperback, and I dunno if I’m going to have a hardcover option for this one. Keep watching this space!

The LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA trailer.

My kids are gonna love this.

It looks like they integrated all of the LEGO STAR WARS episode-based games, made it chronologically open, and fiddled with combat to make it a bit more complex. I will have to consult with my children over whether LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA will make for an acceptable birthday present. I suspect that it will.

Movie of the Week: SPIDER-MAN 2.

I had forgotten how good this flick was. I did remember that Sam Raimi shot a lot of SPIDER-MAN 2 like he does his horror films, but not how much glee he took in having a real SFX budget for once. And Doc Ock’s movement still stands out as how to make multiple limbs believable. I’m kinda pumped now to see what Raimi does with the second Dr. Strange movie.

Apropos of which… please put Ash in there, somewhere. I mean, who’s gonna stop them?

I am now generating the proof copy for MORGAN BAROD.

I will, alas, probably miss the September 1st deadline at this point. But not by more than a few days. I’ll also definitely have to go through the book to look for proofing errors, and won’t that be fun? – but if all goes well, I’ll have it ready to sell at that book fair thing I’m doing in October, which is the important thing.

Yay! And keep watching the skies!

‘Take Me Home.’

Take Me Home, Phil Collins

Morrrrre revisions uggh.

This time for the chapbook: it was suggested that I add little intros to explain each story, and that was a very good suggestion, so I did. And that kind of catches me up, at this point. Tomorrow I can go through MORGAN BAROD again, send selected sections to my editor, and then we’ll do another final passthrough and… publish… the… book?

That seems weird to just type out, like that. I mean, sure, it’s about time, but still. There’s a certain milestone involved in getting more than one novel out, I think. At least, that’s how it feels.

Got the pare-down done on the RPG files.

Needed to get it down to 37,500 (150 pages), and it’s done! Huzzah. Now I just need to see whether I can get the editor I want for it, before I send it off to the person who’ll put that and the art work together. With any luck, I can get the whole thing finished before the end of the year…

Patreon!

Hey, did beta reader volunteers get emails from me yesterday?

I suspect that they might not have gotten emails, based on the way I set up said emails. Which should have worked fine; but then, I’m over 50. At some point, I’m gonna be looking at the technology and scratching my head over why it doesn’t work right anymore.

Book infrastructure week here at MoeLane.com!

I have to do more read-throughs on the novel, the chapbook, and the RPG supplement, which is largely what I was doing today. I’m sorry to say this is not a week where I can really be creative; it’s a week where I’m trying to pare down wordcount and typo-hunt. I’m starting to see deadlines from here.