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So, what’s the best e-commerce credit card reader for your phone?

It looks like I’m maybe vending at Galactic Con after all, so I need a card reader (unless I was planning to do it all cash, which I am not). I also need a banner and some actual books to sell, but that’s easy enough to arrange. Do I want the Square, the Paypal, or something else?

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‘The Bold Marauder.’

It’s a certain mood. I wish Moonwulf would make all of his stuff available for sale online, though.

First stretch goal announced for the Kickstarter!

We’ve definitely funded for the original art, because I have awesome fans, but there’s a couple of stretch goals in place for the “A proper picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model!'” Kickstarter. Here’s the first one:

$600: Art for DECISIONS. DECISIONS will be my next chapbook, and it’s a mixed bag. Some horror, some fantasy, something that should be horror but isn’t – I really like some of the stories in here, and I’m looking forward to having more people read them. If we get to this stretch goal, I can get Ben to make art for them right away!  All backers at the $10 level will get a digital copy of DECISIONS (.mobi, .pdf, and .epub), in addition to existing goals.

I’m going to Galactic Con!

Like, in person and everything. It’s officially the “HOWARD COUNTY COMIC CON,” at the county fairgrounds on June 12th. That’s past my two-week point for the second shot, so off I go.

And will I be vending there? …I dunno. There was an opportunity to sign up, but I found out about it after the deadline. I filled it out anyway, and… we’ll see. If I don’t hear from them in a week I’m going to assume I was too late and I’ll just go and look at what’s there to buy.

05/12/21 Snippet, Rescue From Chateau d’Aléatoire.

Couldn’t concentrate on MORGAN BAROD, so I worked on this. Almost done!

Patreon!

There is an art to waylaying men in a dark corridor; and the first step is, make the corridor dark. There was one sprite-lamp above Pierre and the sergeant, set too high to extinguish without a ladder. Or else… Gerard made an appreciative noise as Tempeste pulled a gadget of crystals and gears out of a belt pouch. Belt satchel, really. “Oh, is that a sprite-snuffer?” he asked.

“No,” she said with the smallest of sneers. “I am not a hedge-witch, assigning every phenomenon I do not understand a place in some farcical animistic taxonomy. This,” she said with not a little triumph in her voice as the gadget started to whirr, “is a phlogiston enervator.”

“That is what I said, mademoiselle.”

“Indeed you did not, sir. This is science, not magic. You can tell the difference by the way that, unlike magic, this will actually work.”

Gerard had seen enough of the uncanny in his career to be far less dismissive of the occult than Tempeste, but he had to concede: whatever you called it, the device did extinguish the lamp.

Self-Tweet of the Day, ABC edition.

The Chick-fil-A sauce supply is apparently getting real bad, out there. Time to stock up! It’s might get a little bumpy out.

I'm not saying get your Chick-fil-A sauce while you can, but… actually, yeah, I'm saying that.https://t.co/LJ95FqFKNO

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) May 12, 2021

My “A Proper Picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model'” Kickstarter is live!

Rejoice! And note that the A Proper Picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model’ Kickstarter is, as of the moment, strictly digital-only. Costs skyrocket when printing this stuff comes into play; besides, this is a short story we’re talking about. If we hit both planned stretch goals I may add print tiers, but no guarantees.

Hope to see you soon!

Spent the day wrestling with edits.

Among other things. The book is approaching that stage where I hate the sight of it and am ready to cast it into the sun. I gather that this is a normal part of the creative process, though. One hopes, at least…

The MORTAL COMBAT Honest Trailer.

The KUNG POW! references at the end were what did it for me. Only sixty eight bucks on Prime! An absolute bargain, that is.

Tweet of the Day, Four Hours Of Beta Reading Editing Made This Hysterical Unto Me edition.

Of course, you had to have actually watched The Wonder Years to get the full effect, I guess.