Moe Lane's Blog, page 908
June 24, 2020
06/24/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.
Continuing on!
Patreon!I hate abandoned supermarkets. I’ve never been in one which wasn’t dangerous, one way or the other. This one looked more like the ‘jagged metal edges’ type than the ‘nest of savages’ one, or at least it didn’t smell like the latter. Once you get a whiff of that combination of old crap, rancid meat, and stale piss, you never forget it. It doesn’t matter if it’s feral vampires or humans, either. The smell doesn’t change.
Oh, the supermarket smelled like somebody died: both in the old days, and just recently. But the smell wasn’t being renewed regularly. I turned to Sax as we picked our way to the place where the feral was shot. “Why was somebody in here, anyway? And where’s his interview?”
“I don’t know, Special Agent,” Sax replied. “For both questions. Whoever found the feral made an anonymous call from a pay phone. The operator said it was a woman, probably an adult, and that she got off the phone really quickly.”
“Damn,” I said. “Well, there’s progress for you.” Not every town up here in the north had rebuilt enough infrastructure to have pay phones.
I am HAPPY to be interviewed about FROZEN DREAMS!
If you have a podcast, website, radio program, or whatnot: I would very much enjoy coming on and talking about my new book FROZEN DREAMS. I’ve got plenty of free time, and with enough advance notice I can pretty much do any specific time slot. Contact me here if you’re interested.
Tweet of the Day, WHY IT’S THE DRAGON AWARDS NOMINATION THING AGAIN edition.
Fancy that.
The Dragon Awards are open for nominations from now through July 19! Anyone can nominate your favorite books, even if you're not going to Dragon Con!https://t.co/Afl2piKOZR
— Baen Books (@BaenBooks) June 24, 2020
…Course, you should read FROZEN DREAMS first, and think that it’s worth the award. Straight up. If not, vote for the better book!
06/24/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.
I’ve been dealing with indigestion all day – not that any of you asked and/or particularly wanted to know – but I did manage to get the first pass of copy-editing done on the last of the short stories. The next step to look at the suggested structural edits, decide which ones I agree with, and make the requisite changes. After that I can do another pass-through and then prep the short story sampler for distribution. I’m debating whether to make it available on Amazon for 99 cents or something. There’s not going to be any art and it’s only six stories.
Other than that, not much today. Although doing edits isn’t ‘not much,’ sure. But it’s been quiet. And faintly bilious. Sorry, yeah, I’m over-sharing again.
Moe Lane
June 23, 2020
Tweet of the Day, Frank Fleming’s Humblebrag edition.
It’s not bad, either.
If I were a full-time writer, I'd have the next two sequels to Superego out before the end of the year.
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) June 23, 2020
Although I do have to admit: why will it take George Martin so long? I mean, somebody else’s already done the heavy labor of figuring out how the book ends.
06/23/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.
I had better get cracking on this one!
Patreon!Rochester was like every other town going through Reclamation in the United States: slightly smoky, and faintly smelling of ash. At least it had been long enough for the corpses to fully skeletonize before they ended up on the mass pyres. I know, I know: you would think that my kind would like the reek of rotting flesh, but not really. Blood goes bad, even for us, very quickly, and our sense of smell is a double-edged sword that way. Which is still no excuse for blood-pits, but then the first generation of vampires usually didn’t bother with excuses for their behavior.
Sax was a dutiful guide and/or spy; she pointed out what local landmarks had survived the capture of the city by vampires, the liberation of the cities from vampires, and the imposition of a relentless grid pattern on Rochester’s streets and blocks. More of the old city survived than I expected, in fact. People these days generally prefer concrete security to mere comfort in their architecture, but here they seemed more willing to salvage what parts of their past that they could.
Which was fine. Uninteresting to me, but fine. Why not try to preserve some of the pre-vampire world? Minus the nasty parts, mind you.
But I only had interested eyes for the ruins.
The ‘A Goofy Movie’ Honest Trailer.
Apparently, A GOOFY MOVIE didn’t… suck?
Although my surprise may be due to the fact that the name reminds me of the the Gumby movie, which my much younger children discovered and forced me to watch forty-three times. Yes, I counted. It was the only way to survive.
I’m Going to be on #TEMS today to talk about FROZEN DREAMS.
[UPDATE: All done! Hope that sounded all right.]
[Further UPDATES: also got links from Instapundit – and According to Hoyt, a couple of days ago. There are more book suggestions at that second link, so check ’em out.]
Ed Morrissey and I go way back, as many of you know: and he’s doing me the solid of having me on The Ed Morrissey Show at around 4:40 PM Eastern to talk about FROZEN DREAMS. …This is kind of weird, folks. I haven’t done an interview in forever, and when I did I was usually doing it from the other side. I hope I won’t sound like a blithering idiot!
I better get some water…
Dear LORD but I needed that haircut.
It’s finally open enough out that I could go get one, so I went and got one. I’m still getting used to the feeling of turning my head and not having a hunk of hair suddenly obscuring my face. Heck, my head feels a couple pounds lighter — although, for all I know it is. I’ve never seriously wondered before just how much a full head of hair weighs.
Hold on… this is apparently a complicated question to answer, or at least there are numerous, mutually-contradictory answers. Suffice it to say that my head doesn’t feel as warm anymore.
