Author: Moe_Lane

New Miskatonic University Monograph: Liber Oblitus. (@hplhs)

Finally. I almost got the Miskatonic University Monograph: Liber Oblitus hardcover (which includes a facsimile of the book being monographed), but I don’t quite have the spare cash necessary to justify that as an impulse buy. Ach, well, such is life. At any rate: the HPL Historical Society never fails to impress.

Moderately dull day today.

Had to make umpteen billion phone calls straightening out several things. Then I had to jump on a call with my layout guy about how to make sure the pagination was going to work out properly for the worldbook. We were trying to figure out how the page flow was set up originally, and while he eventually came up with a workaround, we still had to make decisions on how the Special Thanks page would look. (One reason I was nagging people about surveys!)

Tomorrow I really need to block out the next story, and get started on finishing the last remaining Tobias/Asenath story that I am doing at this time. Busy, busy, busy…

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(Reminder: the pre-order store for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook is open!)

We are at the finishing stages of the book layout process, and one of the steps in that process is putting up the ‘Special Thanks’ section. If you have not yet filled out your survey, fill it out now so that I can properly credit you! And, you know, so you can get your stuff.

Just finished Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.

I do not score Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House as a political book, any more than I currently score Charlie Stross’s Laundry novels as being horror. I know what genres their respective authors think their books are in, but I couldn’t help but treat Fight as one of the funniest books I’ll be reading this year. The horrified bafflement! The nigh-tangible sense of DOOM that flooded This Town! The inability to decide just which rodent-fornicator was the most rodent-fornicating of all! And the uncritical willingness of the authors to let each of their interviewees – on both sides – have at least one poisoned knife each, to use on a target of their choice!

Heart. Of. Stone.

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