I will not lie: there is a part of me that wishes to look at the cover for ANAGNORISIS, say Ehh, and just approve the proof for KDP. I’m not proud of that impulse, but there you go. I was up too late last night.
I will proof it, of course. Kindle version goes live September 1st.
Moe Lane
Huzzah! 14,300 goram words later, it’s finally done. Oh, well, it’ll make a good selling point for the anthology.
We stood not on the order of our coming but left at once. As we ran I saw my shoes and belt, and grabbed them in some haste (my pants were fine, but I don’t walk Cin City in my socks and neither should you). We got out in good enough time before the entire damn warehouse caught on fire.
As the four of us looked at the destruction, I started to swear. Sofie looked up from her quick disassembly of whatever it was that Posh Fred thought would keep Irene under control. “What’s the matter, Tom?” I pointed to the flames in sadness and horror. My only solace was, there was something about this in the Lore (there always is).
“My hat was in that place,” I more or less quoted.
‘Gotta Be Done’ is about… things that gotta be done. Just how it goes, sometimes. Nobody likes it, but what can you do?
I was having trouble trying to wrestle this Tom Vargas story back into mystery mode, until I had a talk with my wife over it. In the process I came to the realization: it’s not a damned mystery. The next novel will be a mystery. This is a two-fisted pulp detective story, so I should stop trying to force it to be something else.
I might actually get the damned thing finished tomorrow, now. Huzzah! …At any rate, that was what the last four hours were about.
Shaenon Garrity, of course, is the artist who did the FROZEN DREAMS cover (and wasn’t that a great get for me). She now has a Kickstarter out for Volumes 9 and 10 for her consistently excellent Skin Horse webcomic. I jumped to back this, and heartily recommend that you do the same.
Although ANAGNORISIS is more like a chapbook: four stories, 32K words. Written by that guy who did FROZEN DREAMS, but not in the same universe. It’s on pre-order, but it should drop on September 1st.
I admit that I might be the tiniest bit biased about this one.
80,012 words as of today. I don’t need MORGAN BAROD to stay above 80K, strictly speaking. I just needed it to get above it once and have everything done so that I can send it to Alpha and later Beta readers next month.
If you’re interested in that, by the way, feel free to let me know in comments.
Agricultural programs! …Shaddap, it’s important.
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