Short version: if you’re in the mood for an old-school vampire flick with buckets of blood and not too snooty an opinion of yourself, ABIGAIL should be right up your alley.
Continue reading My mini-review of ABIGAIL.Patreon Microfiction: Poor Humans.
Further commentary on ‘Poor Humans’ is largely unnecessary, I feel.
Oh, hey. More @HPLHS gamer map crack.
Because the HPL Historical Society knows what makes their target audience fail their save vs. shiny roll: GAMER PROP PACK – MAP COLLECTION. I mean. That thing should come with a warning label.
‘Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).’
In which I offer some distilled writing truth bombs.
I feel that this does sum it all up, although I could edit it a bit.
04/20/2024 Snippet, FLIM-FLAM MAN.
Gregor may have made a bit of a mistake.
Not bad, he decided as he left the squalid little shop behind him. That little performance probably got me the from-around-here rate. Or at least the not-worth-robbing rate. A lot of places in the Twenty Realms saw solitary travelers as easy meat, and the worst ones meant that literally. Camiron didn’t feel that bad, but there was no sense in looking for trouble —
A shout from an alleyway ahead of him, followed shortly by a scream, reminded Gregor that trouble didn’t actually need to be searched for. Sometimes, it was going to show up, right in front of you.
Gregor was very good at calculating odds, and he worked them through as he ran to the alleyway. There probably wouldn’t be more than two attackers, this wasn’t a town so rich that the bravos wore chainmail, and he had a staff. If he was wrong about the first two considerations, he could always run. If he wasn’t, they probably had stuff in their pockets. Nobody minded when you robbed a cutthroat. It was funny!
A part of him still seemed a little taken back about actually involving himself in a fight, but Gregor ignored that. Sometimes you had to play the odds a little. Bet bigger, win bigger.
Book of the Week: Celestial Matters.
Celestial Matters really should be available on Kindle, not that this is Richard Garfinkle’s fault. I can almost guarantee that the reason it’s not is because the rights haven’t reverted, and Tor Books can’t be arsed to digitalize it themselves. I mean, what’s in it for them? It’s just a hard science fiction novel where the physics are Aristotelian and the cosmology Ptolemaic. Who on Earth would want to read that?
…I’m being sarcastic. And quietly grateful that, for better or worse, I’m unlikely to ever have this particular problem.
My 2024 Con schedule, to date.
It’s starting to fill up!
- May 25th: Halfway To Halloween, Glen Burnie, MD
- June 1st: Savage Fest, Savage, MD
- June 15th: Stellar Con (York), York, PA
- August 17-18: RisuCon, Rockville, MD
- September 28-29: Fright Reads, Millersville, MD
- October 12: Maryland Renn Festival
Still looking for more venues, so if you know any local to me, let me know. And, as always: if you can’t wait, buy my books!
‘Under the Bridge.’
They’ve locked down the venue for Fright Reads!
…Which is to say, it’s the old venue for Fright Reads. That’s slightly disappointing, but at least I know how to get there in good time. Besides, it’s shaping up to be a busy year. I will have plenty of opportunities to sell my books, in old venues and new.
Speaking of… buy my books!
#commissionearned