Moe Lane's Blog, page 844
October 27, 2020
In the e-Mail: Supernatural Streets.
Since I am apparently writing high urban fantasy detective novels now I should probably start reading them, hey? So I grabbed Supernatural Streets: I gotta admit, “stories of psychic FBI agents, werewolf detectives, monster hunters, and an ordinary cop just trying to survive when the ritual daggers come out” sounds like the stuff I’m down with reading. Besides, for three bucks what’s the harm, hey?
Moe Lane
The Audiobook is doing well. I think.
I think my sales were perhaps a touch depressed by the minor detail that the people who wanted a FROZEN DREAMS audiobook got one via the Kickstarter. But that’s all right: they also paid for the audiobook, which was the important thing there. I don’t know if I’m going to offer an audiobook as a stretch goal for TINSEL RAIN, though*. Still trying to recalibrate expectations.
Moe Lane
*Assuming I do a Kickstarter. The ultimate goal is to not need to.
Tweet of the Day, Dammit edition.
Dammit, dammit, dammit. Well, at least the Cyberpunk 2077 release won’t interfere with NaNoWriMo now. Grumble grumble groan…
We have important news to share with you pic.twitter.com/qZUaD6IwmM
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) October 27, 2020
Via a protected Twitter account.
October 26, 2020
Halloween 2020 update: three families going to be using the tubes.
I’m going to go find some families in our complex more tomorrow and Wednesday. Basically, we have wide-aperture cardboard tubes (two three-footers, bound with duct tape) which we can mount to our railings and slide candy down a socially distanced space to the kids below. I got two other houses to do this, and I can get another nine with the tubes we got. There’s a guy around here who always does bouncy displays for Halloween. He’ll go for this, bless me if he won’t.
Moe Lane
PS: Because it’s Halloween, and I decline to just give that up without a fight.
The Goodreads Best Books of 2020 Contest!
Just what it says on the tin. Here’s the link: and if you want to go ahead and write in FROZEN DREAMS under the Fantasy category I’m certainly not going to stop you*. As they say: it’s just an honor to be self-nominated.
Moe Lane
*Although A Deadly Education was… dear God but that was a good book. I read it something like three times in a row. I can’t wait for the sequel. :pause: Okay, yes, I’m arguing against interest but there’s no shame in losing anything to Naomi Novik.
10/26/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
Welp, it looks like another stalled-out day for the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter. No lie; I was hoping that putting up the free story might entice a pledge or two, but apparently not. Ach, well. I know people who are trying to just get across the crowdfunding finish line, let alone trying to rack up the cash.
Still, feel free to pass along this link to anybody who might be interested in signing up. It can only help my production timeline next year. Even the $5 tier is one more potential reader…
10/26/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
The essential tastelessness of humanity!
Patreon!At least the three of us were properly camouflaged; business suits, lanyards, a couple of buttons that had no-doubt clever or humorous slogans. Nobody gave us a second look as we moved through the crush of bodies — and smells. I’m not fond of crowds. Everybody here washed, but they still smelled like humans. Which isn’t really bad, one-on-one, but when you put them all together their reek is so incredibly bland.
I know that a lot of humans have come up with this really elaborate mythology where my kind supposedly prey on them. I think they got that idea from garbled stories about Blasphemous Tomes, so they’re not completely wrong — but, really, they’ve got nothing to worry about from me. Even if I was cleared for feeding on them… uggh. I like my meals with a little flavor.
Oh, and it would bother Jack. He thinks it’s wicked to eat humans. Which, fine, he isn’t wrong about that but it still seems weird to make it an entire thing.
Check out a free story from the Kickstarter!
Tweet of the Day, Well, Tolkien DID Leave Copious Drafts Behind edition.
It seems reasonable to look at them.
So, for various reasons, I'm rereading the HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH books about the writing of Lord of the Rings. They're fascinating (for certain values of fascinating); what I'm going to do this time try to extract writing advice (thread)
— Gareth Hanrahan (@mytholder) October 26, 2020
Via @KevinKulp.
Moe Lane
PS: My biographers are going to hate me. Every part of my writing process is electronic! They’re going to guess as to a lot of this stuff.
PPS: No, I won’t start writing it down. If they have to guess, then one answer will be as good as the others when it comes to graduate theses. I’m not a monster.
