I started Karl Gallagher’s Storm Between the Stars this evening. ‘Tis good! Got that space opera vibe that I like, with a nice quasi-nautical theme to it that sounds like it’s been thought out. Check it out; I think readers here will like it.
Category: Books
Technical bleg: cheapest reliable postage label printer?
Is this expensive, for a postage label printer? Because $160 seems expensive. As in, actually out-of-budget expensive*. It’s going to be a lot cheaper for me to print out the postage labels on my own on regular paper and tape ’em to the envelope.
Thoughts?
Moe Lane
*All the money’s getting reinvested into future projects. Although a label-maker may end up being a business expense, at that.
In the E-Mail: Storm Between the Stars.
I suspect that Storm Between the Stars will be hitting paperback soon, but if you don’t want to wait there’s always the Kindle version. It’s space opera and Karl’s a good dude. Check it out!
07/09/2020 Report, FERMI RESOLUTION RPG Worldbook: 31,000/37,800
I powered through both the magic and the religion sections today, because those two are related in terms of mechanics and I thought it’d be easier to just get it all done at once. Tomorrow I think I can just burn through the last three original sections left and then spend the weekend punching up the rest. The goal is to hand it off to a couple of folks I’m consulting with next week and see what they think.
After that, I can get on with the sonnets. And the adventure which I’m going to run for the session*. And after that, I’ve… run out of stuff to do? I could get back to normal? But what is normal, really? I’ve kind of forgotten by now.
Moe Lane
*No, I haven’t forgotten the books. The books start getting processed this weekend. Letter, sign, wrap, label, send out, yay!
It’s official: FROZEN DREAMS has broken three figures in sales! Huzzah!
Trying to calculate that was surprisingly hard, actually: the Amazon reports don’t always line up with each other. But I can fairly say now that, even by the most pessimistic standards, I’ve sold at least a hundred copies of FROZEN DREAMS on Amazon by now. Which is, obviously, awesome.
It’s also a good excuse for me to dial back* the incessant book-plugging a little. I’m not particularly sorry that I did it — this is how you get people’s attention, after all — but now that I’ve hit this milestone I can tell myself that it’s done quite well for the first month of a first book. And, more importantly; I can spend some of that time to work on other things. I think that’s reasonable.
Moe Lane
*I mean, I’ll still plug it. Just not quite as constantly.
BEHOLD! The FROZEN DREAMS/Flying Koala mailing list!
The email signup for Flying Koala is here. This is going to be information relevant to my commercial products; it will be an excellent way to hear about my next Kickstarter, for example*. Don’t expect that much right away: I think that I’m going to send out emails every Sunday if I have anything to send out.
Moe Lane
Continue reading BEHOLD! The FROZEN DREAMS/Flying Koala mailing list!FROZEN DREAMS – and I – need an email list! And newsletter! Opinions welcome!
I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to create an email list and newsletter so that I can keep people in the loop about FROZEN DREAMS, the audiobook, the FERMI RESOLUTION RPG worldbook, the upcoming short story collection, anything else I’ve got in the pipe… you get the idea. Is there a standard go-to resource that everybody uses to create such things? I’ve no real interest in re-inventing the wheel.
The ‘Children’s Illustrated Clausewitz’ Kickstarter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me get out my damned wallet.
The Children’s Illustrated Clausewitz is just what it says on the tin. It’s a Kickstarter for an illustrated version of On War. There are rabbits. And badgers, apparently. We all know how this was going to end.
Via @RobinDLaws.
Welp, Dragon Con’s going virtual. (But you can still vote in the Dragon Awards!)
I can’t say that I’m surprised.
Heck, I was expecting this announcement weeks ago. All the other conventions, SCA events, and other assorted geekeries have canceled by now; if there was another holdout of equal size, I don’t remember what it was. Still kind of sucks; I had a plan to shill FROZEN DREAMS there, after all. Well, there’s always next year, although the hotel situation’s gonna be even MORE insane than usual.
In the meantime: the Dragon Awards are still a go! You can sign up here. And, hey, I even have a book to nominate. Fancy that*.
Moe Lane
*Uphill battle to win, but you don’t win if you don’t even try.
07/04/2020 Progress Report, FERMI RESOLUTION RPG: 28,800/37,800.
Today was half rules, half world-building. Guess which guy forgot to put it anything about armor? This guy! Dear Lord, but this is gonna need some serious playtesting — and before anybody says anything: that’s a discussion for August. I gotta get this draft finished first.
Still, things are not actually going badly. I’ve got time to work on this; the game production doesn’t have a hard deadline. In fact, after a certain point I’m going to need to wait until other people are done working on it, which means I can work on other stuff then. Marathon, not a sprint.