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The “Well, THAT was rude” THE PALE DOOR trailer.

(Via GeekTyrant) I suppose that there may be extenuating circumstances not present in the trailer for THE PALE DOOR. But as presented, the response seems… intemperate. And ultimately self-defeating, surely?

I mean, obviously yes it’s a horror movie and a supernatural one at that. But really: if this is how you treat people who have done you a favor, then it’s no wonder that nobody will ever do you any favors! Next time, try enlightened self-interest. It’s not perfect, but it’s rarely stupid.

The audio files for the FROZEN DREAMS audiobook are done…

…and sent back to the producer for final revisions and whatnot. There was nothing major, so the changes themselves aren’t going to take too long. However, I don’t know how long Amazon is going to take to process the files for final submission.

But once the files are back from our revisions I can get on with distributing them to Kickstarter backers, which will blue out another entry on the Action Plan. Not much left on that front, really. Huzzah!

Moe Lane

PS: Buy the book!

Tweet of the Day, This Excellent Headline Improves On Second Reading edition.

I can say with some pride that I retain a certain childish sense of humor about certain things. Even at my age!

Via @EsotericCD.

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— New York Post (@nypost) July 28, 2020

Light posting today.

It turns out that Reviewing audiobook files requires a heck of a lot more in the way of attention than I thought it would. I gotta buckle down and get this done if I want it done before the end of the month. And I can’t really do anything else, either. Whaddya gonna do?

Reviewing the FROZEN DREAM audiobook today!

It’s very exciting. And very time-consuming: I’m supposed to check every chapter of FROZEN DREAMS, which is something I hadn’t realized earlier but makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? The truth is, I don’t really ‘do’ audiobooks, so a lot of this is fairly new to me.

Still. All part of the job. Any suggestions on how to optimize the review process would be helpful, mind you.

Moe Lane

‘Surrender.’

Surrender, Cheap Trick

I could use a blind playtesting group for the FERMI RESOLUTION RPG worldbook.

Both a group that has familiarity with GUMSHOE, and one that does not would be acceptable; or, indeed, both. I’d learn different things from each. Either way, if people are interested I’d need them to grab the rules and play the game in August, and get back to me with feedback by the end of August. Hopefully by then I’ll have an editor to go through the text so I can get it to the layout artist and then get it back to be sold. And maybe the print run Kickstarted.

Either way: if you’re interested, feel free to apply via comments here or email me via Backerkit. If you backed the Kickstarter then you should already have the playtest version in your mailbox already; if you did not, well, it comes free with FROZEN DREAMS in certain pre-orders and I’ve reopened the store.

In the Mail: Kielich Kola.

Kielich Kola is an album by the Belarusian medieval band Stary Olsa. They were doing a special sale on their site, and goodness knows most artists are hustling for cash right now, so… here we go.

TENET to get a staggered release date.

August 26th abroad, September 3rd here. And September 3rd is probably not going to be the release date around here, because I live in an area where coronavirus cases have gone back up*. GeekTyrant’s assuming that spoilers are going to happen, and I can’t say that I disagree, there.

Oh, well. It sucks, but compared to how horrible life could be right now, both personally and society-wide, the likelihood of movie spoilers seems like small beer. Things can always get worse. Besides: just because I’d like to go see TENET in theaters didn’t mean it was going to happen.

Moe Lane

*But not deaths, thank God.

07/27/2020, TIPPED ON A STIFF.

This is rapidly becoming a novela.

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…one of the things Odis had told us was that he hadn’t been running with a big crew. But it wasn’t a nice one. If I had gotten the full briefing beforehand I would have left him tied up, and somewhere more convenient to the cops. Odie was part of a snatch gang.

If you haven’t heard of snatch gangs before, good. They’re nasty. It’s a real bad world out there these days, and some people like the idea of having other people doing all the work, whether they want to or not. They’ll pay a lot of money for fresh workers, too. And there’s always a bunch of idiots out there who think that New California’s a great hunting ground.

Well, it’s not. But we have to work at keeping it that way. The problem is, some of the gangs sell to the Universal Dominion — the mages have a standing bounty on any magic-user handed over to them, and it’s one bill they always pay promptly — so we have to get rid of them on the quiet. But since we do get rid of them on the quiet, we keep getting new idiots showing up.

This bunch was the latest batch. Punks and mooks from all over, running from the fighting down south or the badlands up north. Their boss — the one who stabbed me — was from up there. ‘Posh Fred, ’ they called him; and Smith had been just a little too quick to give a blank look when he heard the name for the first time. I figured it was probably some kind of Mormon diehard thing.