Category: Books

Books of the Week: The Darkness series.

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.

The Indie Author Project.

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.

BEHOLD! FROZEN DREAMS has arrived!

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.

07/01/2020 Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.

Today was not one of the glamorous days for FROZEN DREAMS, per se.

  • The most important thing was that I got the short story sampler out to Kickstarter backers. Six stories, one of them previously unpublished on Patreon or anywhere else; they’ll be in the full compilation, too. These have been edited, but not professionally, and the sampler will not be commercially available. You can still get it via the pre-order store, but the store will probably be closing after the audiobook becomes available.
  • The paperback books are on their way! They should get here tomorrow, and I’ve straightened out my problems with Backerkit Postage, so I should be able to process them… starting next week. I’ve ordered shipping supplies, and the postage itself can wait until I’ve gotten a good weight for the packages.
  • Finally, I sat down and assigned tentative page numbers for the various sections of the worldbook. I’m tentatively thinking 48 pages for it; I go round and round whether that should be 48 total, or 48 besides the rules. If the latter, then the book goes up to 64 pages, and I have to write considerably more. I may have to tap some old RPG support networks for this one.

A productive day, in other words, but not exactly exciting. Well, they can’t all be a thrill ride, right?

FERMI RESOLUTION Short story sampler away!

(Crossposted to Kickstarter)

If you’re a backer for FROZEN DREAMS, you should be getting an email with a link to the short story sampler at any moment. It’s in .mobi, .epub, and .pdf form. A few things to note:

  • This sampler has been edited, but not professionally. It will be, when the stories become part of the larger short story collection that I’ll be doing after this project is over. I’ve done a few pass-throughs and had people beta-read it, but think of this as an advanced reader copy. Typos and whatnot may be present, and there may be changes later.
  • It’s thus not commercially available. This is the only place you’re going to be able to read the original short story until I do the full collection (which will have at least one more original story in it).
  • If there are any issues, let me know!

And that’s mostly it. Next up: the books! They’re supposed to arrive any day now.