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.
I can’t say that I’m surprised.
After an exhaustive attempt to consider and uncover every possible option to hosting a safe and much-needed #DragonCon this year, it has become apparent that we cannot, in good faith, move forward with our 2020 event. pic.twitter.com/U9Vv0BHLvE
—Dragon Con
(@DragonCon) July 6, 2020
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.
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.
I did a surprising number of things today, actually.
So, not an unproductive day.
SM Stirling once noted that it’s something completely different than insanity when the voices in your head are telling you things that are true. Or at least useful. ‘To-Do List’ lives in that headspace.
I’m rereading Harry Turtledove’s Darkness series. It’s basically the retelling of World War II through a fantasy lens, with a lot of linguistic and anthropological jokes crammed in. Turtledove might be getting a little, ah, cranky at times lately, but this is good stuff. Worth checking out.
Got tipped to this project by Blodwedd Mallory* (see also here). Basically, what’s happening here is that I submit an EPUB to these guys, and then they shop ’em to public libraries. It’s a non-exclusive license, so I keep the rights to sell the book on my own. I would not make very much off of it, I think, but I would get something and it does get FROZEN DREAMS out there for people to read, and maybe even buy for themselves (the program includes a Buy Now button in all of this). Besides, I figure getting into the libraries is a smart long-term strategy.
Moe Lane
Continue reading The Indie Author Project.…via email, let me know, OK? I think I didn’t click a button until just now, so they didn’t distribute – but I think I fixed what was wrong. Hopefully everybody will get the short story sampler now.
It’s time, I think. Things are progressing to the point where the pre-order store will start interfering with my calculations, so… forty-eight hours, folks. After that, you can always get FROZEN DREAMS on Amazon.
Not seen: the other three, much larger, and much heavier boxes full of FROZEN DREAMS now living under the dining room table.
Those are scheduled to go out next week, for several different reasons, starting with the holiday and ending with that’s when the packing material all shows up anyway. I’m going to be closing up the pre-order store this weekend, too. That’ll probably get its own post.
