Category: Books

Annnnd TINSEL RAIN is off to the editor!

Given how well the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter is going, I’m comfortable with starting the process. I will have to hold off on getting the map updated and a book cover designed, but those are both relatively straightforward jobs. I’ll need the text edited before I can get the cover done anyway, because of page count issues.

It was a slow day, mostly because it’s the first day of the month. I’m always slow to get back into the swing of things on the first. I always feel slow, and vaguely listless. Possibly I need to manage my time better?

First, and successful, week done on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter.

Looking at the numbers… TINSEL RAIN is definitely outperforming TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION and is not too far off from FROZEN DREAMS at this point of the cycle in terms of revenue, although I had more backers at this stage for the latter. I figure that’s to be expected: the first book had a lot of people showing up to support me actually, wow, writing a novel and everything. The drop-off from the first to the second Kickstarter was instructive, although I did wonder how much of that was due to the first book being a novel and the second being a short story collection. Preliminary results comparing TALES and TINSEL RAIN suggests that it is a factor. I guess it really is true: novels sell better than short stories. God knows the latter is far more of a buyer’s market.

Anyway, good first week, and now I have to find new places to get people to see the Kickstarter. :brightly: Suggestions welcome!

#commissionearned

Well, back from Farpoint.

It was… not as successful as I would have liked. I didn’t quite make my table fee back; I’m not sure whether this was because the site was more science fiction than fantasy/horror, or because the venue didn’t attract as many people this year as they usually do, or just stuff going on. Don’t get me wrong, I sold books, and I came close to breaking even on the table: but I was honestly hoping for more business.

Ach, well. It was good info to have. I’m already doing better than the average; it seems ungrateful to too badly want to be doing yet better still.

Moe Lane

PS: Kickstarter! Which is going well. So spread the word!

The STAND STILL, STAY SILENT Vol. 4 Kickstarter.

The fourth of sixth volumes, and there won’t be a seventh: Stand Still, Stay Silent is in the wrap-up stage. Which is a shame, but it’s Minna’s webcomic, not mine. If she’s done, she’s done, and that’s both the beginning and the end of it. Making her keep doing a project that she’s not enthusiastic about doing would only wreck the comic.

Alas.

TINSEL RAIN Update: I wonder… how do people feel about bookplates?

I did some pricing for them* and the cost isn’t too bad for custom-made ones. But I’m essentially doing softcovers here. Would people be interested in signed bookplates featuring one of these designs, do you think? Either as part of the Kickstarter, or as something I just sell to folks buying my books on Amazon? The answer can be no.

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