Moe Lane's Blog, page 733
April 28, 2021
The Steve Jackson Games Button Packs Kickstarter.
It’s safe to back this: the Steve Jackson Games Button Packs Kickstarter uses an American (i.e., non-slave labor) manufacturer. Which is good, because the $52 level includes a limited number of (signed) print reproductions of First Edition GURPS Autoduel. My own copy fell apart about a decade ago; it would have been agonizing to pass this chance up…
April 27, 2021
‘Walk on the Wild Side.’
It’s a warm enough night for this.
Now is the time to sign up for my Patreon!
End-of-month content dropping in the next two days. Which might even include the extra of a chapter or two from the new book! No promises, though.
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, …Truth edition.
As Karl noted elsewhere, only Ben Bova assumed it’d be the Japanese who’d be doing it. Then again, it was back in the 1980s, back when we all assumed that the Japanese would end up dominating the world. Then they got exquisitely screwed by the NYC real estate industry, and never quite recovered from that.
Appropriately, Ben Bova's prediction of how electronic books would displace the traditional publishing industry is available online. He told them exactly what was going to happen in 1984, and none of the dinosaurs paid any attention.https://t.co/EZoFtpRTdK https://t.co/1qUAvisSaJ
— Karl K. Gallagher (@KarlKGallagher) April 28, 2021
They’re gonna make another Monsterverse movie, it seems.
GeekTyrant reports that they’re tapping GODZILLA VS. KONG director Adam Wingard for another monster flick. GeekTyrant also reports that they’re unsure precisely why. To which I have to say: 75/91 on Rotten Tomatoes, and $400 million box office in a world where movie theaters exist in this sort of sporadic, half-alive half-dead state.
Seriously. Rocket science, this ain’t. Of course they’re going to make a sequel! They made one after GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, and that one bombed among people who weren’t me! Admittedly, they had this flick in the can already, and were just waiting for a moment to uncork it, and it turns out that the first gasping breaths of air after the country thrashes back to the surface of the COVID pool was a wizzo time to light that particular candle.
And how was all of that for a mixed metaphor?
April 26, 2021
Tweet of the Day, Just Got In Under The Wire edition.
HOW?
HOW?! HOWWWWWWWW!????!!!!!
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) April 27, 2021
The APE VS. MONSTER Asylum Ripoff trailer.
Erm. It doesn’t look… entirely… awful? I mean, it’s not good. But APE VS. MONSTER has more of a 1950s Creature Feature vibe to it than the usual stuff Asylum does.
The first trailer for 'Ape vs. Monster' has officially been released. pic.twitter.com/aiMiVWDr9D
— Kaiju News Outlet (@KaijuNewsOutlet) April 26, 2021
Well, MORGAN BAROD proceeds apace.
Got about half of the beta readers back in full and the other half are sending me stuff, so that’s on track. I also have the editor confirmed, and contracted out for the map (I absolutely needed to have a map for this book). The cover’s being worked on already, as you all know. I expect MORGAN BAROD will go to the editor at some time in May. I expect I’m going to try to work on TINSEL RAIN also in May, and until it’s time for me to do edits for MORGAN BAROD. If I have any time left over after that, I’m going to get a jump on the new novel.
Oh, and I’m planning a side project involving “Pickman’s Model.” Keep watching the skies…
Patreon!In the Mail: Stand Still, Stay Silent Book 3.
Gorgeous, as always.
For those who don’t know: Stand Still, Stay Silent is a Finnish post-apocalyptic webcomic which is just flat-out excellent. I get these compilations in hardcover, as soon as they come out. And, obviously, the third one just did.
