Rob’s Update: Afterimage
Greetings all
2020 had started off better than I could have hoped. I got accepted as an Attending Pro at DragonCon. This is an amazing honor and I am so excited.
Then I got word I’d been accepted as a vendor at Dagorhir’s Ragnarok XXXV event. This is a large LARPing event held in June at the same site as Pennsic. It’s a bunch of new potential readers I get to meet. More excitement.
Then I announced my plans for the year. You can find that post here: http://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1919. The TL:DR version is that I have a full, but manageable schedule that adds yet more excitement.
The stories for When Valor Must Hold are all good, even mine. Team “And More” did a great job, and I’m ecstatic at what the cover authors have given me. It’s a great honor to work with all of these authors, and they’ve done me proud.
I’ll be introducing these authors one a week until the release, and probably afterward. The first one is William Joseph Roberts, whose story Dust in the Mouth has enough action to make Crom go “Whoa!”
You can find my interview of William here: http://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1926.
I also started a new regular column for Monday’s called Rob’s Ramblings. This week it was my ShadowCon AAR at: http://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1915
None Call Me Mother is progressing. Started seriously thinking of two other short stories.
All was going well.
And then Neil Peart died from brain cancer. I’m posting this because it’s the job, and doing the job was one of many lessons the Professor taught me.
But I hurt.
What I’m Listening To
Rush. As much as I can all weekend long.
Quote of the Week
Rush’s Afterimage. The whole song.
Suddenly, you were gone
From all the lives you left your mark upon
I remember
How we talked and drank into the misty dawn
I hear the voices
We ran by the water on the wet summer lawn
I see the footprints
I remember
I feel the way you would
I feel the way you would
Tried to believe but you know it’s no good
This is something that just can’t be understood
I remember
The shouts of joy, skiing fast through the woods
I hear the echoes
I learned your love for life
I feel the way that you would
I feel your presence
I remember
I feel the way you would
This just can’t be understood
News and Works in Progress
None Call Me Mother (95,944)
CB (8,418)
Recent Blog Posts and Wiki Additions
Rob’s Ramblings (ShadowCon AAR): http://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1915
Interview (William Joseph Roberts): http://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1926
Rob’s Update (2020 Visions): http://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1919
Upcoming Events
24-27 January, ChattaCon, Chattanooga, TN
https://chattacon.org/
20-22 March, FantaSci, Raleigh, NC
https://fantasci.rocks/
12-14 June, LibertyCon, Chattanooga, TN
https://libertycon.org/
20-28 June, Ragnarok XXXV, Slippery Rock, PA
http://dagorhirragnarok.com/Home
24 July-9 August, Pennsic, Slippery Rock, PA
http://www.pennsicwar.org/
3-7 September, DragonCon, Atlanta, GA
https://www.dragoncon.org/
Spotlight
This week’s spotlight is on William Joseph Roberts, one of the first people I had in mind for the anthology When Valor Must Hold.
Today’s Weight: 399.4
Updated Word Count: 6,7
Shijuren Wiki: 874 entries
Let me know if you have any suggestions on the website, this email, or cool story ideas at rob@robhowell.org. Especially let me know of suggestions you have for the Spotlight section.
Have a great week, everyone.
Rob Howell
Author of the Shijuren-series of novels
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Currently Available Works
Shijuren
A Lake Most Deep (Edward, Book 1)
The Eyes of a Doll (Edward, Book 2)
Where Now the Rider (Edward, Book 3)
I Am a Wondrous Thing (The Kreisens, Book 1)
Brief Is My Flame (The Kreisens, Book 2)
None Call Me Mother (The Kreisens, Book 3) Forthcoming 2019
Four Horsemen Universe
“Where Enemies Sit” in For a Few Credits More (The Four Horsemen Universe)
“A Sword for Striking” in Luck Is Not a Factor (The Four Horsemen Universe)
The Feeding of Sorrows (Four Horsemen Tales, Book 11)
The Phases of Mars
“Far Better to Dare” in Those In Peril
“In Dark’ning Storms” in To Slip the Surly Bonds
“Here Must We Hold” in Trouble in the Wind
Short Stories
“A Gift of Crimson” in Hand of Gold and Other Stories (Pussy Katnip)
“The Chaos of Well-Seeming Forms” in We Dare
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