This is easily my favorite Billy Joel song.
The Downeaster ‘Alexa,’ Billy Joel
01/25/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOST.
I absolutely need to buckle down on this. Or maybe break it in half.
Continue reading 01/25/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOST.Book of the Week: The Sky People.
We’re finally getting the third volume of SM Stirling’s The Lords of Creation in June, so it’s time to revisit the series, starting with The Sky People. This is the Venus one. I’m not going to lie: it’s good, but In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (the Mars one) is better.
#commissionearned
Aiming for 125 followers on the FERMI RESOLUTION WORLDBOOK Backerkit by the launch date!
Obviously I want considerably more – five hundred would make for an excellent start, but right now I am at ninety-six, including me. If I get a good enough follower count on the Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit, the company will consider helping to boost my signal, which would be awesome. Everybody who buys the game is a potential customer for my novels, after all. And vice versa.
So we’re plugging! Sign up to follow the project here. Back it on February 4th. Tell all your friends!
Tweet of the Day, …STOP IT. edition.
Stop it, or I’ll bury you alive in a BOX!
I have the Sleep Madness.
I just… hit a brick wall. I blame the kids’ midterms, mixed with the weather. Everybody’s sleep patterns is for the birds. See you in the morning…
Map for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook adventure!
This actually… doesn’t look too bad, really. I’m using Campaign Cartographer 3 for this, because it has a black and white map option. It’ll honestly do for what I need it for, and I paid for the program years ago.
Be sure to join up!
‘This Too Shall Pass.’
Somebody tell me I don’t need to spend the weekend…
…putting together a PDF of a campaign concept from a third-party RPG setting that nobody plays anymore. Especially since I don’t have the rights to do anything commercial with it, which means I cannot sell it. And I cannot in fact go get the rights, because I don’t have the money and would feel the need to ask yet more unwelcome questions that would be very ill-received. Tell me the smart idea is to work on something else.
Because I’ve been thinking about doing it anyway this evening. Like, a lot.
Shooting starts on James Gunn’s SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW.
More here. I actually picked up the complete SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW graphic novel, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Specifically, the aesthetic of it pushes my buttons: the artistic style evokes Flash Gordon / Art Nouveau in a way that I look at, and think ‘High Romance.’ I am very much looking forward to seeing if James Gunn saw the same things that I did, and if he can put it on the screen.
#commissionearned
PS: Seriously, the art is amazing. I kind of want to grab the book and stay up late to read it again.