TINSEL RAIN Update: Chapters 20-23 edited.

One chapter left! And the Epilogue. After that, I just have to write a bunch of introductions, dedications, and so forth – assuming that we don’t do another pass on TINSEL RAIN. Not sure. It’d definitely go more quickly, this time.

As for publication schedule: Kickstarter backers get the digital version first. Once those are distributed, TINSEL RAIN will go to KDP, and we’ll start the process of publishing the KU and paperback versions. Not in time for Balticon, alas. Such is life; and, honestly, we are way ahead of our planned publication schedule anyway. I need to remind myself of that.

Pre-order store!

TINSEL RAIN Edits: Chapter 19.

Only one chapter, because I had to add some details to a particular character to make her work better. Well, I didn’t have to, but my editor made the suggestion and when she pointed it out to me I decided I agreed. Which is how about 90% of these suggestions go. Maybe 95%. I’m not really prone to temper tantrums over the inviolability of my deathless prose.

Still have two more from the current batch to do, then I just need to get the last three and the epilogue. Already have the book cover percolating away… shoot. I’m about to publish another novel! Huh.

Pre-order store!

TINSEL RAIN Update: Chapters 17 and 18 edited.

I actually have edits for all the way up to Chapter 21 (there are 24 chapters in all, and an Epilogue), but I’m going to do the other three tomorrow. We’re at the stage of the book where I need to do more than just confirm copy-editing changes*, and that slows down the process. Still, TINSEL RAIN is very close to being edited!

Which is awesome. And also about to give me a lot more work, of the not entirely fun variety. But mostly awesome.

Moe Lane

PS: Pre-order store.

*Mostly observations about how a particular section should be tightened up, or how a character’s motivation isn’t completely ringing true. But I am getting a flattering lack of This book is terrible, and should be launched into the Sun, so I am not finding the feedback oppressive.

Worked on THE SINISTER SUMMONING OF POPLAR COUNTY tonight.

This was something I did for Patreon, back in 2018; and it could do for Kindle Vella, if I turn it into the 8,000 word short story it should have been. I just need to put together a better conflict than the one that I had in the original. More accurately, a less rushed one. I’m thinking that something a little more madcap might be in order. Car crashes into haystacks and chickens flying around and maybe a running gag or two. I could make it work.

Of course, I also have other things to work on, but at least I have ideas percolating in my head now.

Caught up to Chapter 16 edits for TINSEL RAIN.

That’s basically two-thirds of TINSEL RAIN done. Far fewer edits for this than for FROZEN DREAMS, but the really complicated bits are yet to come, so: count no book finished until it is on remainder. …Okay, as epigrams go it doesn’t make perfect sense, but it’s still not too bad.

So far: the expectation is that the Kindle version will be ready for Balticon, and the print version for Fright Reads. Past that, it’s up in the air.

Moe Lane

#commissionearned

Should I collect my microfiction for print?

I have a ton of 100-word microfiction, and theoretically I could take the best hundred of them and put them in book form. It’d be about the size of a chapbook, so it’d be a $2.99/$4.99 project. The problem is, they’re microfiction. Don’t know how many people would want to buy that.

I could value-add it by including illustrations. The problem there, though, is that the art costs go up significantly when we’re talking about one hundred pieces. Even if I spent no more than five bucks a pop on the art (which would get me, I dunno, stick figures or something), that’s still five hundred bucks which I won’t see recouped any time soon. And I wouldn’t want five-buck-art, anyway.

So. Thoughts?

Patreon Microfiction: From BUZZ ON THE STREETS.

BUZZ ON THE STREETS is not going to be the name of the next Tom Vargas novel, but it might be the title of the next novella. It would be easier to just have Lucas already around for the next novel, after all. Hrm. Maybe I could serialize this…

#commissionearned