I was feeling blocked, a little, so I’m skipping ahead and writing all the stuff that I’ve already gotten straight in my head. Then I’ll go back and fill the rest in. Which is fine, but it means I’m writing things out of order. So… too many spoilers from today’s wordcount, alas.
Ah, the glamorous life of a writer.
This is seriously awesome news. The short version is, SM Stirling wrote two books (THE SKY PEOPLE and IN THE HALLS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS) which took as their concept, What if Golden Age science fiction had been right about Mars and Venus? The books are filled with dinosaurs and lost tribes and weird technological relics and dueling Martians and scheming and a lot of traipsing through various almost-Terran wilderness, and they were a lot of fun. And next year we get the next book in the series, which will be nice. I’m hoping for some torchships, myself. And maybe a hidden paradise on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
#commissionearned
Now, this is how it goes. You folks, you use the Dropbox link. But when you tell other people, you give ’em the Patreon link. See? See? …Unless they’re, I dunno, cool and everything. In that case: yeah, give ’em the Dropbox link. I trust your judgement.
Dammit. I hate most political books, but O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores* was and is essential reading. My condolences to his family and loved ones.
*He would have been the first to tell me to #commissionearned that sucker.
I haven’t locked them in yet, which is good. The great problem with Kickstarter goals is to overpromise, and I’ve been very careful to avoid that trap, by and large. But if I want to offer a particular something as a Day One backer reward for the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter, I’m going to have to adjust my stretch goals somewhat. I am, alas, only one person.
A week to go on the Kickstarter, by the way. Huzzah! Click the link above (or click here) to set up notifications.
PICKMAN’S MODEL: A ROMANCE! So good! So cheap. Perfect for that last-minute Valentine’s Day gift! …If your significant other has a certain set of mind. I will not lie to you: this is not a conventional love story. But that is perfectly fine. It merely means that you and your love are not conventional sorts of people.
#commissionearned
Although I’m trying to remember if I’ve read Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. I should have: when I was in my teens and twenties, I devoured all the Hercule Poirot stories I could find. Doyle, Christie, Sayers, Queen, Garrett, Westlake… I was what is in retrospect a somewhat enthusiastic fan of whodunits. ‘Course, I read a lot.
