THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD is a fantasy Western by Will Neely, a sometime reader of this site. Will wanted me to take a look at it, and this particular genre is of some interest to me (I’ve even written a couple of stories along those lines), so I decided to pick it up. No complaints so far, although I’m only about six percent into the book: it’d be longer, but I have a full day today.
But, by all means, check it out.
It wasn’t unproductive, but work expanded to fill all available time. I had to force my schedule to let me write five hundred new words. That’s not always fun. So, what’s fun with you?
The bad news? I apparently have a mild hernia. So I have to be careful about lifting things and so forth until I can get to a doctor who will tell me how we’re getting rid of it.
The good news? We decided to bite the bullet and just all go to Galactic Con. I think my kids haven’t worked out yet that going to a comics convention means that there’s stuff for sale that they could buy themselves, or wheedle out of their parents. But they will. That should be fun, and we need to get them out of the house more anyway. And, of course, this way I’ll be able to eat and use the bathroom without worrying that the stock will go walking with Jesus.
So go Team Hernia! …Okay, that sounded better in my head.
I have odd conversations with my wife sometimes.
Continue reading 06/01/21 Snippet, WOLFGIRL KIM AND THE HOA OF DOOM.…Hoo, boy. It’s a good thing that I was planning to get TINSEL RAIN out later in the year, because I’m gonna need to do a bunch more stitching than I remembered. Starting with fixing the skeleton properly, instead of the quick-and-dirty realignment I did last November.
Nothing is actually horrible, although if I was supposed to get this to the editor by the end of the month I’d be in deep trouble. But I just decided to turn this into a two month project instead of a one month one. Best way to make a thorough job of it.
Moe Lane
PS: Eight days to go on the Kickstarter!
Here ya go:
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Huzzah! Many thanks to my long-suffering wife and alpha reader, and the considerably less suffering beta readers, for their opinions and reactions. I dunno how long the book’s gonna be in edits, but hopefully we can hit a summer release date. The cover is likewise being worked on right now, and is getting pretty close to done.
In other news: Galactic Con is still a thing, although I’m still trying to figure out how to factor in bathroom breaks. TINSEL RAIN I start working on tomorrow, and I’m not entirely looking forward to it, honestly. There’s a lot of stitching that has to happen. And I would like to do a bunch of writing this summer, now that school’s winding down. But note the italics.
But enough of that. The book is at the editor’s! That means it’s not my problem until corrections start coming back! Huzzah!
Bismarck once said that if he heard the world was ending tomorrow, he would immediately move to Mecklenburg – because everything there happens fifty years later. “Back of Back of Beyond” has that energy. Some places just don’t react much to current events.
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Why? Because Shaenon Garrity mentioned Illuminatus! on Twitter [fnord!], and danged if I can think of a better choice. It’s been a weird week. I wonder if it’s all due to the looming ending of the pandemic [fnord!]; I am stretching out, and some of my mental muscles feel stiff and unused…
