Moe Lane's Blog, page 693
August 29, 2021
‘The Greatest Action Story Ever Told.’
This is better than any music video I could think of. Not to mention being a better sequel to Terminator 2 than, well, any of them. And it’s not even horrible theology! I’m amazed Mad TV managed that last trick, honestly.
Hurricane Ida is bad.
New Orleans has lost power completely. Pray for them. And you can donate here to the American Red Cross.
08/29/21 Snippet, FLIM-FLAM MAN.
Woods!
Patreon!But a few of the townfolk were starting to follow, in an idle way which could turn serious in a heartbeat, and Gregor could take a hint. There was an overgrown patch of old wood, almost all the way up to the millpond; and while it looked pretty damned wild there he didn’t see any wasps or snarevine. Not the sort of thing you’d want to follow an already-chastised mountebank into, unless you were really mad at him.
So he plunged into the underbrush, wincing at the brambles (which were there in abundance). Gregor was good at running away, too: he didn’t waste time on amateur mistakes, like looking back to see who was following him, or panicking. He knew these kinds of races were won by the people who kept on plugging until the other side gave up. After ten years in this business, he thought, I should know a few things.
Today I finished up DECISIONS!
DECISIONS is another chapbook, and probably the last fiction thing I publish this year. The stories in it are not related, except in the sense that I happen to think that they’re four of my best short stories ever. Thirty two thousand words, four illustrations, here’s the cover.
$2.99 in Kindle, $6.99 in print. I’m planning to pull the trigger on this one tomorrow. Just in case there’s any last-minute stuff that needs doing.
Patreon Microfiction: Suboptimal Career Paths.
I imagine that it was all very awkward, while it was going on. I think by the end the people of ‘Suboptimal Career Paths’ were just assuming that every collaborator was a double agent of some kind. Which would be a self-fulfilling prophecy, no?
Patreon!August 28, 2021
‘Birdseeds of Vengeance.’
Yes, it’s a parrot.
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.
Book of the Week: SEMPER MARS.
(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!
