Today was a rough day. Not enough sleep and too much indulgence, the day before. There’s a reason why I’m retired.
Category: Books
Reminder: I am doing a book signing 11/6 at Curmudgeon Books!
November 6, 2021, 1 to 5 PM.
Curmudgeon Books
Marley Station Mall 7900 Ritchie Highway
Glen Burnie, Maryland 21061
I will be signing copies of MORGAN BAROD, DECISIONS, and maybe a few other things, too! Pleeeeease stop by, if you’re in the area, and buy a book. I want them to invite me back!
#commissionearned
NaNoWriMo 2021 Day 2, 1,700 / 19,080.
Three hundred words below target number and THAT’S JUST FINE.
NaNoWriMo, 11/01/2021: 2,020 / 17,380.
I started with a novella, you see. I don’t know if I can sustain 2K words a day for NaNoWrimo, but then I don’t have to. Even if I am aiming at 60K words, I’m already 29% of the way there. But it’s good to start as strongly as possible.
Continue reading NaNoWriMo, 11/01/2021: 2,020 / 17,380.NaNoWriMo 2021 has begun!
This year I’ll be turning my novella GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND into an actual novel. It needs it, honestly. I also think that it gets to be the manuscript I send out to be endlessly rejected and/or brandish when somebody asks me, Do you have a novel available? I mean, I could self-publish it, but I don’t make enough to hope to publish more than one novel a year*.
Anyway, this one is not in the world of the Fermi Resolution. But keep an eye out for a possible fun thing associated with next year’s Kickstarter…
*Speaking off…
- My books. (#commissionearned)
- My Patreon.
The October Patreon stuff is up!
This month we have:
- A chapter from TINSEL RAIN! Alchemy! Spirits! Spare ribs!
- Part V of MONSTER WAR DOOM! Details on the bad guys, who are arguably the good guys, only they’re not there yet and they definitely do oppose your players!
As always, check out my Patreon!
Patreon Microfiction: Mission of (Technical) Mercy.
I’m not sure what’s so bad that hangin’ seems like a better option, but whatever it is; it’s in the Devil’s Mine. So much so the sheriff’s not entirely certain he wants to go there himself. But the protagonist has his own reasons for seeing the job done… yeah, yeah, yeah: ‘Mission of (Technical) Mercy’ could have been a longer story.
Halloween tomorrow!
Holiday weekend today. Had to make sure the kids had their homework done, so as to make sure it wasn’t hanging over their heads for the trick-or-treating. Also had to prep this month’s Patreon story (which is a chapter from TINSEL RAIN), so it’s been a day.
Book of the Week: Mexican Gothic.
I’ve been meaning to read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic for a while now, and I can say that it’s living up to the title. It is definitely Mexican, and very nicely Gothic. I suppose that there’s probably some metaphor or something involving society lurking under the surface somewhere, but honestly it’s mostly about a plucky heroine dealing with a dilapidated house that’s filled with strange people. So, you know: gothic. #commissionearned