Continuing on!
Continue reading 06/24/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.Category: Books
I am HAPPY to be interviewed about FROZEN DREAMS!
If you have a podcast, website, radio program, or whatnot: I would very much enjoy coming on and talking about my new book FROZEN DREAMS. I’ve got plenty of free time, and with enough advance notice I can pretty much do any specific time slot. Contact me here if you’re interested.
Tweet of the Day, WHY IT’S THE DRAGON AWARDS NOMINATION THING AGAIN edition.
Fancy that.
…Course, you should read FROZEN DREAMS first, and think that it’s worth the award. Straight up. If not, vote for the better book!
06/24/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.
I’ve been dealing with indigestion all day – not that any of you asked and/or particularly wanted to know – but I did manage to get the first pass of copy-editing done on the last of the short stories. The next step to look at the suggested structural edits, decide which ones I agree with, and make the requisite changes. After that I can do another pass-through and then prep the short story sampler for distribution. I’m debating whether to make it available on Amazon for 99 cents or something. There’s not going to be any art and it’s only six stories.
Other than that, not much today. Although doing edits isn’t ‘not much,’ sure. But it’s been quiet. And faintly bilious. Sorry, yeah, I’m over-sharing again.
Moe Lane
Tweet of the Day, Frank Fleming’s Humblebrag edition.
It’s not bad, either.
Although I do have to admit: why will it take George Martin so long? I mean, somebody else’s already done the heavy labor of figuring out how the book ends.
06/23/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.
I’m Going to be on #TEMS today to talk about FROZEN DREAMS.
[UPDATE: All done! Hope that sounded all right.]
[Further UPDATES: also got links from Instapundit – and According to Hoyt, a couple of days ago. There are more book suggestions at that second link, so check ’em out.]
Ed Morrissey and I go way back, as many of you know: and he’s doing me the solid of having me on The Ed Morrissey Show at around 4:40 PM Eastern to talk about FROZEN DREAMS. …This is kind of weird, folks. I haven’t done an interview in forever, and when I did I was usually doing it from the other side. I hope I won’t sound like a blithering idiot!
I better get some water…
06/22/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.
Infrastructure today: first off, I did the edits for another story for the sampler. I’m going to try to do the last two tomorrow, then I can figure out what structural edits to make, then I guess I put the whole thing into one collection and go from there. I’d like to check this one off of the list.
The other major thing was a layout/brainstorming gig for the RPG worldbook. I sat down with my wife – she is also a gamer; yes, it is quite unfair how lucky I am – and we just tossed out all the stuff I’d need to put in the book, considering the page count. Right now I’m contemplating about 48 pages, which is not enough for a standalone game. Then again, it’s not supposed to be a standalone: you’ll be playing this sucker with another GUMSHOE ruleset. A full standalone game… will probably be another Kickstarter, in 2021, because I don’t have the budget for that kind of staff. But for right now we’re just going to get this version out the door.
That’s mostly it. Oh, and my usual exhortation to get all your friends to buy the book, of course. And to have them leave reviews afterward.
Continue reading 06/22/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.06/22/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.
Actually written last night after midnight, because Father’s Day.
Continue reading 06/22/2020 Snippet, HOLDOUTS.Patreon not-Microfiction: Terry.
There is a lot of rough language in “Terry.” But in the protagonist’s defense: you’d be swearing, too. Don’t read this around kids, and bear in mind that it’s considerably longer than 100 words. It’s also one of the best things I’ve written this year, so there you go.