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January 26, 2021
01/26/21 Snippet, THE WAR OF OLD MAN TYLER.
Plotting!
Patreon!Jose nodded and began unrolling maps. Bailey could see that these were labeled in English, which was nice. “They move the main work camp every six weeks,” the bandit chief explains. “The teams lay 2 miles a day of track on a good day, or at least a good day for the Massas.” The venom Jose packed into that term for the rulers of Coahuila was something to hear. “At least they did. In the last season, new overseers came. They whip the workers for any reason, or none at all. They keep the gibbets full, too. The work goes faster, now.”
“Bastards,” said Bailey. “Stupid ones, too.”
Nacho gave him a look. “Oh?”
Bailey smiled, without humor. “Slave-made stuff’s always gonna be dangerous. It’ll break in your hands, or pop a rivet, let you down when you need it most. But you whip a man when he’s laying track?” Bailey shook his head. “That, my friends, is a railroad you never want to take. It’ll smash you up out of sheer spite, it will.”
The ‘Well, It’s A First Trailer’ RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON trailer.
Disney has a been known to show me first trailers which were far worse than the actual movies. TANGLED comes to mind. So I’m not worried. Yet.
Still, there better be more Con Baby With Monkeys in RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON. Just saying.
The STREET FIGHTER Honest Trailer.
It is extremely sound on Raul Julia, which is pretty much all I care about. And Honest Trailers, too, come to think of it. They really didn’t have much else to say about STREET FIGHTER that was particularly nice.
Amazon self-Godwins itself.
I’m sorry. It’s just… really hard to unsee. Purely unintentional, but… yikes.
Yowzers.https://t.co/OwhCv07ME6 via @Not_the_Bee
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) January 26, 2021
BEHOLD! The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION proof.
TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION (that link is to the Kindle).
The maps look good, so I’ll do one last print check and then start the approval process for the physical books. Huzzah! Hopefully I’ll be able to get the actual books for signing and sending out soon.
January 25, 2021
Tentative 2021 Book Schedule.
I want to get this down, because I’ve been meaning to. Right now I have three projects in mind:
MORGAN BAROD (Tentative release date: June 2021). This novel is currently in alpha read territory, and it will probably need beta readers soon. I’m generally happy with wordcount (80K).TINSEL RAIN (tentative release date: late 2021 or early 2022). This novel needs serious work (it’s currently at 60K), and I expect I’ll be working on it a bit while I wait for the alpha readers to do their magic.Another chapbook (Summer or Fall 2021). I have a bunch of stories to pick from; the real trick is finding an artist. And, I guess, paying for the art.So there’s where we’re at.
This is an awesome Werner Herzog interview on skateboarders.
Today was a bit of a dumpster fire – the Internet was giving us grief all day, which is more of a problem now than it was in the Time Before – but this is… nice. Not in a wishy-washy sense, but in an ‘everybody’s chill and cool right now and man but I’d like to grab a beer with Werner Herzog.” He seems like a Righteous Dude.
I am once again fascinated by Werner Herzog. I’ve never had an affinity for skateboarding but his take here has completely opened me up to its poetry – perseverance through failure. https://t.co/53JSmOQ721
— NerdingAround (@NerdAround) January 25, 2021
01/25/2021 Snippet, THE WAR OF OLD MAN TYLER.
Yeah, the short story got away from me. Again.
Patreon!The band had about two dozen men and women in it, with about half as many horses — and three times as many guns. American guns, too, which made Nacho raise his eyebrows and Bailey shrug. “Not me,” he said, more or less truthfully. “Never seen these folk before. Maybe they raided a caravan.”
“Or maybe you Yankees slipped some guns to the Apache, with hints to have them ‘dropped’ somewhere helpful when they raided south of the border.” Nacho said that slightly sourly, which made Bailey give him a quick glance. This was not the place for a quarrel.
“I don’t know, friend. Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t. Either way, they’re better off with ‘em, don’t you think?”
Nacho shook himself. “Sorry. You are right, but…”
“But?”
“But they would not need the guns if your people had only shot more rebels.”
