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Meetings!

I’ve had this story in my head for a while, and today was the day I decided to start writing it. I have some hope that it will be, ah, controversial.

I kind of feel sorry for Morgan Barod, at this moment.

Multitasking! This is a short story that can also be put into the new book. Huzzah!

The Tom Vargas story was rapidly becoming a novella. Job Along the Borderlands is a Fermi Resolution story that will appear in the short story collection, mind you. So: feedback is welcome.

I have to keep reminding myself that it’s OK to show stuff like this off. This is just the preliminary pencil sketch; there are a couple details that need to be tweaked, and obviously the final is going to be in color. But Ben Fleuter here hit all the notes that I wanted hit. I’m really happy with the way it’s coming out.

Well, this story is in the can. Gonna go through it again tomorrow, then put it up on Patreon for this month’s short story (the expanded worldbook is this month’s RPG offering, and I feel no need to apologize for that. I tripled its size!). Then we can work on August stuff. I have a plan…

There’s one minor tweak that I need have done, but otherwise it’s gonna pop, I think. Ben Fleuter does good work. Can’t wait to tease it out to folks.

Ach, what a weirdly productive month it’s been. I’m getting to the point where I need to start thinking about all the other stuff I’ve been — well, not neglecting. Money was paid for these projects; people need to get their money’s worth. But I got a manuscript that needs a second pass-through, then an alpha reader handout. And soon it will be November, and time to write another book. Busy, busy, busy…

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The Tom Vargas story is now a novella, and won’t be ready this month. But TRADE NEGOTIATIONS is almost done. One more real scene after this, so no worries. We’ll put this up — after renaming it.

Both a group that has familiarity with GUMSHOE, and one that does not would be acceptable; or, indeed, both. I’d learn different things from each. Either way, if people are interested I’d need them to grab the rules and play the game in August, and get back to me with feedback by the end of August. Hopefully by then I’ll have an editor to go through the text so I can get it to the layout artist and then get it back to be sold. And maybe the print run Kickstarted.

Either way: if you’re interested, feel free to apply via comments here or email me via Backerkit. If you backed the Kickstarter then you should already have the playtest version in your mailbox already; if you did not, well, it comes free with FROZEN DREAMS in certain pre-orders and I’ve reopened the store.