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July 2, 2020
BEHOLD! FROZEN DREAMS has arrived!
Not seen: the other three, much larger, and much heavier boxes full of FROZEN DREAMS now living under the dining room table.
Those are scheduled to go out next week, for several different reasons, starting with the holiday and ending with that’s when the packing material all shows up anyway. I’m going to be closing up the pre-order store this weekend, too. That’ll probably get its own post.
Material for the FERMI RESOLUTION RPG worldbook up on Patreon.
Found here. I realized that, if I did nothing else, I’d have to get some stuff up on the Universal Dominion itself. Gonna be working on that for the rest of the weekend, then decide whether or not to go from 48 to 64 pages. I need to think about this now, because next week I’m going to be busy…
Patreon!July 1, 2020
Don’t tease me, bro: del Toro and At The Mountains of Madness.
Saw this on Facebook. It’s painful to contemplate, man. Painful.
Guillermo del Toro Still Hopes to Make H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft is considered one of the most seminal authors in all of horror and sci-fi literature, with filmmaker Guillero del Toro considered a visionary of cinema, and while del Toro’s previous efforts to adapt Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness never moved forward, he recently confirmed that he’s still interested in making that project become a reality. The project first started to take shape back in the mid-2000s but didn’t seem to make substantial steps forward until the early 2010s, but even with impressive names attached, del Toro’s plans never worked out and he continues to hope the stars will align for the adventure.
I want this movie real bad, AS YOU ALL KNOW. But I suspect that the only way del Toro’s gonna get it made is if he tells the studio that he’s filming something else and nobody comes and checks. I know that sounds stupid, but apparently there’s resistance to doing the movie – and, no: I don’t know why it’s so hard to arrange, either. Maybe they’re worried about it coming out when the stars are right.
The ‘This looks fun’ MORTAL trailer.
Although for esoteric values of ‘fun;’ it’s sort of Thor meets Brightburn without quite so much nihilism. But it also looks very Norwegian. Same director as Trollhunter, which was also a very fun movie, and also very Norwegian. So, hey, a theme.
Mortal’s a direct to video release in August, but that doesn’t mean anything like it used to. Although it’s weirdly harder for me to watch a movie at home than at the theater. Not sure why.
07/01/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.
Today was not one of the glamorous days for FROZEN DREAMS, per se.
The most important thing was that I got the short story sampler out to Kickstarter backers. Six stories, one of them previously unpublished on Patreon or anywhere else; they’ll be in the full compilation, too. These have been edited, but not professionally, and the sampler will not be commercially available. You can still get it via the pre-order store, but the store will probably be closing after the audiobook becomes available.The paperback books are on their way! They should get here tomorrow, and I’ve straightened out my problems with Backerkit Postage, so I should be able to process them… starting next week. I’ve ordered shipping supplies, and the postage itself can wait until I’ve gotten a good weight for the packages.Finally, I sat down and assigned tentative page numbers for the various sections of the worldbook. I’m tentatively thinking 48 pages for it; I go round and round whether that should be 48 total, or 48 besides the rules. If the latter, then the book goes up to 64 pages, and I have to write considerably more. I may have to tap some old RPG support networks for this one.
A productive day, in other words, but not exactly exciting. Well, they can’t all be a thrill ride, right?
The Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS 2020 PDF Challenge Kickstarter.
Kinda speculative, but not really. The Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS 2020 PDF Challenge Kickstarter will likely fully fund, although it is on a reduced time-frame. I guess they’re playing around with the platform, seeing what it can do.
FERMI RESOLUTION Short story sampler away!
(Crossposted to Kickstarter)
If you’re a backer for FROZEN DREAMS, you should be getting an email with a link to the short story sampler at any moment. It’s in .mobi, .epub, and .pdf form. A few things to note:
This sampler has been edited, but not professionally. It will be, when the stories become part of the larger short story collection that I’ll be doing after this project is over. I’ve done a few pass-throughs and had people beta-read it, but think of this as an advanced reader copy. Typos and whatnot may be present, and there may be changes later.It’s thus not commercially available. This is the only place you’re going to be able to read the original short story until I do the full collection (which will have at least one more original story in it).If there are any issues, let me know!
And that’s mostly it. Next up: the books! They’re supposed to arrive any day now.
June 30, 2020
Welp, half the year gone. How is everybody?
I’m actually doing all right, myself. Everybody’s healthy here, kids got through school, I’ve got a book out — things could be a lot worse. But there’s a lot of twitchy people out there, and some of ’em might be readers of mine. So: how’s everybody doing? Remember, I’m specifically asking, so it’s all right to say.
