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March 18, 2025
Self-Tweet of the Day, Look, I Figure Somebody’s Reading The Whole Thing, Okay? edition.
So they might as well let me know.
Quick question: is there anything in the released JFK files that CONTRADICTS the theory that Oswald was aiming at Connolly all along, but just missed? I have a manuscript where the answer to that would be relevant.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 19, 2025
The HAPPY GILMORE 2 Trailer.
…Sigh. This may be the one that convinces me to watch the nostalgia bait. Don’t ask me why the HAPPY GILMORE 2 trailer succeeded where other ones failed. It’s a mystery to me, too.
The YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY SPIDER-MAN Honest Trailer.
Plenty of spoilers in this one. Honest Trailers didn’t entirely like YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY SPIDER-MAN, but that’s cool. It did remind me to get back to the show, and that’s the important thing.
03/18/2025 Snippet, LE BETE.
Got some of it down, and the rest of the story plot. I have hopes that this will get put to bed relatively early this month.
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This is foolish, Joseph told himself again as he made his way to the Germans’ encampment. It might even be a trap. After all, Carteaux had made it clear that the Committee did not trust him with the secret of the ‘System.’
And yet, the witch-hunters were well-disposed towards him. Kraemer in particular had tried to be ingratiating over dinner, although from the look on his face he was doing so with a throat full of bile. Joseph was confident that all of that meant that a certain amount of indirect direct questioning would do no real harm. Well, mostly confident. He might face Paris’s disapproval later — but after Le Bete fell in battle, would that even matter?
Really, though, the excuses were all irrelevant. In the end, Joseph Fouché was simply curious, and he was in the sort of profession that rewards the indulgence of that habit. He was also in the sort of profession that would insulate him from the worst consequences of curiosity, which meant almost as much.
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Is it time to raise book prices?
I’m torn on this. I want to keep prices low, so that more people will buy my books. But I’m wondering whether I’ve got them too low. I don’t want them so low that people think that they’re lower quality.
Here’s the current breakdown:
BookEbookPaperbackFrozen Dreams$2.99$9.99Tinsel Rain$4.99$12.99Morgan Barod$4.99$12.99Tales From the Fermi Resolution 1$2.99$12.99Tales From the Fermi Resolution 2$4.99$13.99Ghosts on An Alien Wind$4.99$13.99(Books can be found here.) Is it finally time to push everything up to $14.99? The e-books mostly look okay, although arguably they could go up to $5.99. I honestly don’t know.
March 17, 2025
‘The House of Orange.’
Provocative? Sure. I’m also increasingly happy that all my ancestors had the mother-wit to move.
The House of Orange, Stan Rogers
#commissionearned
There are a distinct lack of fun things going on this month.
It’s starting to get noticeable. Even popular entertainment feels a little strained. What diversions have the rest of you got?
Fermi Resolution stuff added to Patreon (all tiers, including free!)
As part of my encouragement of interest in the Fermi Resolution Worldbook (preorder store here), I’ve made the following items available to all my members on Patreon (including those in free tiers):
HuddlesThe Mages’ AllianceMilken FortsLet me also remind you that free memberships are, well, free – and that I’m giving out one-month free memberships, too. Not opt-out! Go ahead and raid those archives.
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03/17/2025 Snippet, LE BETE.
Getting to the messed-up bits.
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Deacon Dietrich Vorn was almost everything that German witch-hunters looked for in their recruits: grim, indifferent to other people’s gore, ready to focus all their energies into fanaticism, and single-minded in their intellects. Alas, Vorn also had a taste for swiving whores, then blaming them for his sins. He had even more of a taste for never letting his superiors find out about either, which is why he arrived so quickly when Joseph had him discreetly summoned.
“You are fitting in with your new masters, I am sure.” It would have taken very little for Joseph to sound engaging, but he did not bother. Vorn was at best a resentful minion, suitable only for squeezing for information. “Tell me what you know, Vorn.” If Vorn resented not being called ‘Citizen’ — well, he did, then.
“I am, Citizen Représentant.” Shockingly, the usual servile sneer was absent from Vorn’s tone. Instead, he sounded pleased with the world. This alarmed even as hardened an intriguer as Joseph; after all, he had first-hand unfortunate knowledge of what made the man smile. “They have not shown me much of the new System, but what I have already seen of the equipment is amazing. So simple and obvious, when you see how the System was done. It will change everything.”
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