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The August Patreon stuff is up!

This month, it’s:

OMBUDSMAN (The Fermi Resolution): a two-fisted tale of corporate responsibility and defenestrations! Complete with Scenes of Heroic Endeavor, for the Edification and Entertainment of the Managers and Workers of the Hershey Consortium.
As the Golden Emperor Lies Dying, Chapter 6: The Future: Not that anything involving the King in Yellow has an actual future. But if you’re playing a cosmic terror game, well, that’s baked in the cake, hey?

Gonna do different stuff in both categories next month, I think. Because I’m kind of slagged, right now.

ANAGNORISIS goes live tomorrow!

You can still pre-order ANAGNORISIS today, though. Thus making sure that… the sale gets locked in, I suppose. It feels important, though. Maybe it’s a morale thing? Yeah, that makes sense. I just had the most frustrating afternoon, trying to get short story title headings working in Scrivener/Open Office. Curse you, .docx! We hates you! We hates you forever!

In the Mail: the ANAGNORISIS proof.

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

08/30/2020 Snippet, TIPPED ON A STIFF (in the can!)

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.

Patreon Microfiction: ‘Gotta Be Done.’

100WS-Closing Time Download

‘Gotta Be Done’ is about… things that gotta be done. Just how it goes, sometimes. Nobody likes it, but what can you do?

Weird night tonight.

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.

The Skin Horse Volumes 9 and 10 Kickstarter.

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.

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