‘Spirits Getting Drunk’ has potential, but I’m not sure I particularly feel like exploring it. Where is the development in Eternity? What conflict can arise when the time of change has past? Or something like that. Still: good for a microfiction. They can’t all become books.
Category: Books
10/17/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
What’s that on the horizon? I suspect it might be… satire.
Continue reading 10/17/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.Book of the Week: The People’s Choice.
The People’s Choice is by Jeff Greenfield, and it’s a little obscure, I guess. Written in 1996, it’s a satirical novel about a real oddball situation where the President-elect of the USA dies between the election and the convening of the Electoral College, thus producing an unique situation in American politics. I know, I know: real unlikely stuff, here. The country would have to be in the middle of an amazing string of low-probability events, most of them bad, before that could even seem remotely plausible.
Still: improbable or not, so far it’s holding my interest.
Outlines! (PATCHWORK GOD, TINSEL RAIN)
I spent today doing something useful with my time: book outlines! I decided that it’d be a good idea to write out one for PATCHWORK GOD (sequel to a story in ANAGNORISIS) and TINSEL RAIN (the Shamus Tom Vargas sequel to FROZEN DREAMS). How… industrious of me.
Moe Lane
PS: I won’t tell you the details, save one: the last line of the TINSEL RAIN outline is There! Now people can have a bunch of goram sequels. Happy? …As you might deduce from that, I had not previously intended to turn FROZEN DREAMS itself into a series. But I can take a hint.
10/16/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
I have a bit of a pressure headache, so I’m calling it an early night.
Continue reading 10/16/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.Four days until the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 1 Kickstarter!
Starting next Tuesday. For those unaware, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 1: THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER is a collection of short stories set in the same universe as my first novel FROZEN DREAMS. It is not a sequel to FROZEN DREAMS, although there is an original Shamus Tom Vargas prequel in it. Come to think of it; I believe that story hasn’t actually been published on Patreon yet, so people who back the project will get that and at least one more original story before anybody else does.
You can sign up for notifications for the Kickstarter here, and join my mailing list here. You could also tell everybody you know about those links! It’d be awesome, really.
The WIDDERSHINS: WITCH HUNT Kickstarter.
Widdershins is a fun webcomic, and I’m more than happy to give Kate money for her books. The WITCH HUNT Kickstarter is also timed to start just as the Witch Hunt storyline finishes up, which is likewise cool. In that just generally cool way: I don’t think there’s any hidden meaning to that.
10/15/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
I do want to get as much of this down as I can before November and the Tom Vargas sequel.
Continue reading 10/15/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 1 Kickstarter begins in six days!
If you’re interested in passing that information around, you can tell folks to sign up for launch notifications here, or the mailing list here. I’m trying to hit a target of 35 Kickstarter followers for this project, and every little bit helps. For that matter, if you know somebody who needs a distraction feel free to send ’em this link to FROZEN DREAMS. Because, really, every little bit helps.
10/14/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
Ms. Stewart and Mr. Cosgrove are not… exactly nice people, sometimes.
Continue reading 10/14/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.