Using my utter ignorance of organic chemistry to my best advantage!
Continue reading 09/13/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.Category: Books
09/13/2020 Update, DUTIES Project.
13,140/32,000 Words.
Worked on: The Fight in the Grove
DUTIES is going to be four previously published stories: “Processing Duty,” “The Fight In the Grove,” “Frogman Prince,” and (my personal favorite) “Meatbags.” I was originally going to type “published on Patreon,” but since all the magazines out there insist on treating them as bloody reprints they can damn well not be hyphenated-published stories. Fair’s fair.
A bit of a taste:
Continue reading 09/13/2020 Update, DUTIES Project.Book of the Week: Dislocated to Success.
The premise of Iain Bowen’s Dislocated to Success is fairly straightforward, as ‘Islands in the Sea of Time’-type stories go*: what would happen if Maggie Thatcher’s UK was sent back in time to 1730? Answer: the British would end up having a fine time of it. It’s a fun read, not least because the author is quite sound on Maggie. As is only fitting.
*This is, indeed, a genre.
And So It Begins: Tom Vargas #2.
I don’t even remotely have a title for this one, yet. It’s also not being actively worked on, every day, and won’t be until November. And, obviously, it’s not going to be on the publication rotation until at least three projects from now. But… I have a plot, and at least I’ve got a start.
Continue reading And So It Begins: Tom Vargas #2.09/11/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
09/10/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
09/09/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
Progress report on the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
There is a bit of news, in fact.
- First off, there is going to be a Kickstarter: today I started putting together what I’ll need to set one up. I expect that the start date will be November 1, 2020, with a February 2021 fulfillment date.
- The working title will be TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION, VOLUME I: SHADOW OF THE TOWER. 10 stories, including an excerpt from the upcoming MORGAN BAROD novel and a Tom Vargas novelette!
- I don’t know if this one is going to have an audiobook. Audible has been moderately incompetent about approving a commercial version; it’s possibly not fair to put my producer through all those hoops over this again. Or at least so soon.
- But! We have an editor for the short story collection, and I’ve almost formalized getting an artist for the cover.
So things are moving along.
09/08/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
It’s Labor Day! Check out the FROZEN DREAMS Goodreads Giveaway project!
30% of the way there! If we hit 100% ($10/$30 physical tiers only) at the preorder store, I will give away 5 physical copies on Goodreads! How exciting!