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10/02/2020 Status Update, REVISIONARY: 26,000/32,000

Moving nicely along, actually. REVISIONARY shows promise.

10/1/2020 Status, REVISIONARY: 25400/32000.

I’m planning to finish this project up as early as possible, which may mean hunkering down this weekend and doing a lot of, hah, revisions. It is to hope that I can offer a copy of REVISIONARY as an add-on for the upcoming Kickstarter, but I’ll know more by the middle of the month. Still kind of making this up as I go along, really.

Welp, that’s September down.

Had to move up the new Kickstarter for the Fermi Resolution anthology a touch, so it’ll be going off next month. Turns out that they recommend that you end your project on a Thursday morning, late morning/early afternoon; but the only date which fit at the end of November was… Thanksgiving. So the Kickstarter starts in three weeks, not one month.

Feel absolutely free to pass that link to the notification site around; I am absolutely certain that this one is going to get less love than the first one did. Funding somebody’s first book is one thing; funding somebody’s second? …Well.

The September Patreon stuff is up.

Although I reserve the right to swap out the RPG setting for something else next month. It’s a good idea, but it needs just a touch of something.

Impurities: A Cthulhu Mythos story about things I know nothing about, really! But since when has that ever stopped anybody!
The Elmerite Order: a mystical bunch of your standard hidden magicians in an uncaring world, only they’re being more or less subsidized for it.

REVISIONARY status, 09/29/2020: 24800/32000

Getting into POLLY WANT, honestly: some stories are hard to expand, but this one really needed to be properly fleshed out. I feel a lot better about this project than the other one, honestly. I should have expanded it a while back.

The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter goes live 10/20/2020.

It’s a short story anthology set in the Fermi Resolution world, spanning a millennium of war and conflict. TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION will feature a combination of Patreon and new stories, including a never-before-seen Tom Vargas novelette! I can’t wait for people to read it.

Click here to sign up. Feel free to pass the link to FROZEN DREAMS around, too. Every little bit helps.

In the e-mail: A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 1).

Oh, happy day. A Deadly Education is Naomi Novik’s latest, and I’ve already started it, and so far it’s excellent. The only thing keeping it from Book of the Week status is that it already had it, more or the week I heard about it. I regret nothing…

You are running out of time to get a signed copy of FROZEN DREAMS at list price! (plus shipping)

Get in on it before I close down the store in anticipation of the new Kickstarter!

Plus: if we hit 100% ($10/physical tier) at the preorder store, I will give away 5 physical copies on Goodreads!

Tell your friends today, because supplies of signed copies are limited!

I have switched projects for the next chapbook.

DUTIES was and is not a bad idea, so to speak — but the theme wasn’t gelling at this time. But REVISIONARY (horror, Mythos-friendly) is going along a lot more smoothly. I’m already at 24300/32000 for the text itself, and the stories that I’m expanding really badly need expansion anyway.

These are all stories on my Patreon, by the way:

Wicked Why
Polly Want
Simmon’s Book
Impurities (forthcoming)

So feel free to check them out.

Short story collection file off to the editor!

Huzzah! And why do I do this! I’ve stared at the stories for so long now I hate them! And love them again! I need a drink!

Moe Lane

PS: Keep watching this space for details about the upcoming Kickstarter. I’m still waiting to see if there are any cover art sketches in progress I can use to make the Kickstarter look good. And, yeah, enjoy the quiet before the storm.