On the one hand, I dislike tariffs*. On the other hand, I don’t like how the gaming and independent fiction industries talked themselves into using products and services from the People’s Republic of China, despite the fact that the PRC’s supply chain is corrupt and unreliable at best, uses wink-and-a-nudge slave labor at worst, is run by people who are ideologically opposed to several core principles of Western society, and is about as ecologically friendly as a guy spraying out chlorofluorocarbons from his extra-leaded gasoline-powered mobile throne while directing a Soviet-era hydroelectric project.
Continue reading Kind of mixed feelings, right now.Category: Books
04/02/2025 Snippet, BOOT.
The March Patreon stuff is up!
I feel the story went well this month, so of course nobody will agree with me. If so, I won’t even be mad about it. That’s just how the universe works.
Anyway…
Continue reading The March Patreon stuff is up!I may be doing RisuCon again after all.
RisuCon‘s moved the date to October 4th, moved the venue to the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, and – most importantly – slashed the table fee considerably. Half hour commute and a vendor fee I can make back means the venue has a lot more potential this means. Besides, I liked the staff. They were on top of stuff, last year. So I put in an application. I’ll keep you posted.
As always: if you can’t get to that, buy my books here!
#commissionearned
Book of the Week / In The Mail: Silverlock, Including the Silverlock Companion.
Happy birthday to me!
Although there’s a problem. Silverlock, Including the Silverlock Companion is pretty. In fact, it’s too pretty. I don’t want to actually open it, it’s so pretty and clean. It has glossaries. It has commentary, including by John Myers Myers himself. It has a bibliography. It has sheet music. Let me repeat that, to anyone who cares: IT HAS SHEET MUSIC.
I almost shudder at the thought of using this book. I may end up only reading it while wearing gloves.
#commissionearned
Snippet the Last, LE BETE.
And thank God. I mean, it needs to be smoothed out, but that can be another day.
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Continue reading Snippet the Last, LE BETE.Ben Fleuter’s got a couple of comic anthologies up at his store.
Yes, yes, I need a store. Although what I actually need is a business manager, who can make stores and other things happen. Anyway: Ben’s got some new small-print anthologies up at his store. Check ’em out before they get sold out, and so forth.
03/27/2025 Snippet, LE BETE.
Not a productive day today in the writing world, but a pretty good one from the perspective of doing the dry cleaning and teaching my children valuable life skills. So, a wash.
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Continue reading 03/27/2025 Snippet, LE BETE.A more productive day than usual…
…thank goodness. Did a surprising bunch of meetings and emails, actually. I can’t wait to get the next story hanging over my head out of the way, so that I can… go on to the next thing hanging over my head, I guess. April definitely needs to be Work On The Next Tom Vargas Novel, that’s for sure…
Some THE BOLD MARAUDER art.
I had Ben Fleuter draw me some Samson Black. He gave me versions with and without the bubble-helmet, because Ben is that kind of professional. Seriously, if you can manage to hire him for stuff, do so.
