Moe Lane's Blog, page 732

Weekend posting is in effect.

I gotta bail in an hour or so to get to the site in time to put up tents; then, tomorrow morning, it’s up and out the door by 7 AM to get to the site in time to make sure everything is set up and set out. I assume I’m just going to collapse tomorrow night and sleep. Ach, well, it’ll all be good for me, I’m sure.

Tweet of the Day, YEE… [Please, God, Don’t Let Them Screw This Up] ….EESSSS edition.

EXCLU: 20th Century developing new MASTER AND COMMANDER movie with Patrick Ness penning the script https://t.co/5AtUNkS7Xt

— Justin Kroll (@krolljvar) June 4, 2021

I’ve never quite forgiven the American movie-going public for not paying for a MASTER AND COMMANDER series, but I’ll take what I can get.

FIVE DAYS TO GO on the Kickstarter!

Although I am pleased at the level of success for the “A proper picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model!’” so far. It’d be awesome if it cracks the million dollar mark in the next five days. I needed it to fund, so that I could bring out the story this year and still be able to publish two more novels. And it has, so we’re golden.

But if people want to go for that million dollar objective, well, I can live with that.

‘I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow.’

I need to sit down and watch this movie again.

I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, The Soggy Bottom Boys

06/03/21 Snippet, WOLFGIRL KIM AND THE HOA OF DOOM.

I may change the title.

Patreon!

I awoke the next morning to the wonderful smell of coffee and the slightly less wonderful sound of a pressure hose. A glare at the clock told me it was 8:38 AM: sort of well into morning, but still too early to be making a racket. Which meant I couldn’t sleep in, dammit. Somebody responsible had to go intervene.

My grumbling started as I went down the stairs. Werewolves prefer ranch houses or trailer parks, because we don’t like multiple stories. This place? Five floors, including the basement. And we were sleeping two to a room. This town house would be snug for six humans; for werewolves, it was cramped. It was making us all bristle-furred, even when we weren’t actually sporting any.

But eventually I made it to the (again) too-small kitchen, where Tonya was doing yeoman duty by making a whole pot of that precious, precious coffee. And cooking up some deer steaks, which was extra nice. “Morning, sis,” she said as I was wisely handed a fresh cup. “Aya already said she’s going as quick as she can. The hide needed cleaning, quick.”

“It could have waited until noon,” I muttered around my cup. “Humans might have been still sleeping. I was sleeping.”

So, I’m thinking HITMAN’S WIFE BODYGUARD for my triumphant return to the movie theaters.

I watched THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD, and it was precisely the kind of ridiculous I like to watch, enjoy, and then go on my merry way. Do I want to early access HITMAN’S WIFE BODYGUARD, though? …Maybe. I’ll need to check schedules on that, though.

Tweet of the Day, I Remember Dolly Having Braces! edition.

Obviously, she did not, because there’s plenty of video evidence in MOONRAKER to the contrary. But I’ve never had the Mandela Effect hit me before. It’s kind of neat.

https://t.co/onhsa1NTpz

— Simon Hunt (@Simian01) June 3, 2021

Do you hate Trending Topics on Twitter? Click this link!

More specifically, click this link: Tweak New Twitter. It’s amazing, how much jackwagonry that particular Chrome add-on nukes. And people don’t seem to know about it, so what the heck.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m still on Twitter for the same reason I still put stuff on Facebook, use my old LinkedIn profile, and am trying to suss out how Pinterest works: I don’t have an advertising budget. Bricks without straw, my droogies. Bricks without straw.

Dragon Con 2021 Nominations are open.

I got reminded that they’re open until the middle of July (the link’s here). Before you ask: alas, I do not have an eligible book this time: FROZEN DREAMS was published before the period started, and TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is a collection of short stories, not a novel. But I agree with Declan Finn that the Dragon Awards matter, and you should nominate the books published in the last year that you’ve read and liked.

Also, STORM BETWEEN THE STARS is a rather good book.

Light posting tonight.

I am currently thinking about how to arrange TINSEL RAIN. It is not yet productive, but it will be. But actually writing anything today wasn’t in the cards.