Moe Lane's Blog, page 716
June 1, 2021
Open thread, I guess.
It wasn’t unproductive, but work expanded to fill all available time. I had to force my schedule to let me write five hundred new words. That’s not always fun. So, what’s fun with you?
So, good news / bad news on the Galactic Con front.
The bad news? I apparently have a mild hernia. So I have to be careful about lifting things and so forth until I can get to a doctor who will tell me how we’re getting rid of it.
The good news? We decided to bite the bullet and just all go to Galactic Con. I think my kids haven’t worked out yet that going to a comics convention means that there’s stuff for sale that they could buy themselves, or wheedle out of their parents. But they will. That should be fun, and we need to get them out of the house more anyway. And, of course, this way I’ll be able to eat and use the bathroom without worrying that the stock will go walking with Jesus.
So go Team Hernia! …Okay, that sounded better in my head.
06/01/21 Snippet, WOLFGIRL KIM AND THE HOA OF DOOM.
I have odd conversations with my wife sometimes.
Patreon!The prey was wary, despite our precautions. It was female, and young enough to breed, but old enough to know there were things out there that would delight in ripping the meat from its bones and eating it raw. We had done it often enough in places just like this, after all.
But it was stupid, like all prey; and it could not quite believe that this silent grassy field between darkened houses could possibly be instantly fatal, now. And there were treasures in this place, too. Things it could not get at in the woods, where what was left of its kind hid. When stupidity joins forces with greed, foolishness always follows.
But the prey had some cunning; it crept from shadow to shadow, circling around the treasure it sought. I could see it try to look in several directions at once, and stifled my barking laughter when its spooked eyes passed over me, and saw nothing. The rest of the pack followed my example; relaxed, but ready to pounce when it pleased us to do so.
Tweet of the Day, This Is A Thing Of Beauty edition.
Not the fonts; the lawsuit.
best logo story ever: NBC spent $1 million to redesign their peacock logo in 1975, only to be successfully sued for trademark infringement by Nebraska Public TV, who paid $100 for theirs pic.twitter.com/3rxEukoD2z
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 1, 2021
It gets better.
I've actually used this as an example of trademark infringement in class. Nebraska ETV sued NBC in 1976. Parties reached an out-of-court settlement. NBC kept logo but provided $800k in equipment and paid $55k to develop a new logo for Nebraska ETV. About $4mm in today's dollars.
— Brian Carver (@UTPops49) June 1, 2021
Best hundred bucks they ever spent.
Did the first pass-through of TINSEL RAIN.
…Hoo, boy. It’s a good thing that I was planning to get TINSEL RAIN out later in the year, because I’m gonna need to do a bunch more stitching than I remembered. Starting with fixing the skeleton properly, instead of the quick-and-dirty realignment I did last November.
Nothing is actually horrible, although if I was supposed to get this to the editor by the end of the month I’d be in deep trouble. But I just decided to turn this into a two month project instead of a one month one. Best way to make a thorough job of it.
Moe Lane
PS: Eight days to go on the Kickstarter!
May 31, 2021
Spent the evening working on site maps.
The event’s Saturday. We need to have a map of the site – where the official tents go, where the unofficial tents go, guide rope issues, that sort of thing – by Friday night, so that we can get the big tents up then and coordinate the smaller ones on Saturday. So I spent the evening scribbling away on the computer. Fortunately, the site is dead easy to draw.
It’s funny. Everywhere else, my ability to make maps on the fly was subject to at least mild respect and approval. I never had anybody gasp, but they were impressed. But in the SCA, it’s… expected, really. After all, we all learned it the same way: via D&D.
The CRUELLA PITCH MEETING.
There are mega-spoilers, mostly (I suspect) so that you don’t actually have to watch CRUELLA after this. Not that you had to in the first place, obviously. But if you needed to know the plot for some reason, well: here you go.
The May Patreon stuff.
Here ya go:
First off, the obligatory Kickstarter link. 9 days to go! Illustrated short story! Way cool, methinks!LICHES GET STITCHES: Zombies! Liches! The Mob!MONSTER WAR DOOM: My new campaign setting. May or may not contain some Easter eggs…And, remember: Patreon!
Patreon!MORGAN BAROD is off to the editor!
Huzzah! Many thanks to my long-suffering wife and alpha reader, and the considerably less suffering beta readers, for their opinions and reactions. I dunno how long the book’s gonna be in edits, but hopefully we can hit a summer release date. The cover is likewise being worked on right now, and is getting pretty close to done.
In other news: Galactic Con is still a thing, although I’m still trying to figure out how to factor in bathroom breaks. TINSEL RAIN I start working on tomorrow, and I’m not entirely looking forward to it, honestly. There’s a lot of stitching that has to happen. And I would like to do a bunch of writing this summer, now that school’s winding down. But note the italics.
But enough of that. The book is at the editor’s! That means it’s not my problem until corrections start coming back! Huzzah!
