The Masked City is Genevieve Cogman’s second book in her Invsible Library fantasy series (involving functionally immortal agents of a powerful Library who have access to the source language of the universe*). I should have put this one a while back, but I got distracted and am only now taking up the series again. It’s quite fun! And I like Genevieve. People should buy her books when they come out, and say nice things to her at conventions. Continue reading Book of the Week: The Masked City.
Category: Books
Well, this is awkward: all of the books I read this week…
…were either ARCs or Kickstarter rewards. I’ve been trying to think of a more exploitable suitable book for the last few days, and I’ve absolutely drawn a blank. I dunno. Recommendations?
Quote of the Day, Translation: “And So, Tolkien Wins After All” edition.
From the publicity stuff for Season Eight of Game of Thrones:
“It’s about all of these disparate characters coming together to face a common enemy, dealing with their own past, and defining the person they want to be in the face of certain death. It’s an incredibly emotional haunting bittersweet final season and I think it honors very much what [author George R.R. Martin] set out to do — which is flipping this kind of story on its head.”
Continue reading Quote of the Day, Translation: “And So, Tolkien Wins After All” edition.
In the (E-)Mail: Robin D. Laws’s ‘The Missing and the Lost.’
You’d have to have done the Yellow King RPG Kickstarter to have gotten the link today to Robin D. Laws’s The Missing and the Lost. If you have, then you should download that book; it’s rather good. If you haven’t, well, keep track of it until it comes available; again, it’s rather good.
Basic conceit is that it’s an alternate history Hastur Mythos novel where Hildred Castaigne (the protagonist of Robert Chambers’s “The Repairer of Reputations”) actually succeeded in creating a Imperial dynasty that ended up ruling the United States for a century, all for the benefit of the King in Yellow and his Yellow Sign. And then there was a revolution, and the Emperor has fled, and people are trying to rebuild and not think about all that literally insane magical stuff that had been going on. Only they can’t…
I’m about sixty percent in, and it’s good stuff. Get it, when you can.
In the [E-]Mail: Voices of the Fall (Black Tide Rising) E-Arc.
Voices of the Fall is a collection of short stories set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series. The link’s to the E-ARC: the published book ain’t until next March.
…I don’t care, baby. Just leave the book and an IV unit. I’ll handle the rest of it from here.
NaNoWriMo, Day FINAL: 1435/50001
1,435/50,001.
…Done*. I wrote a goram book.
Moe Lane
*Except for collating, arranging, creating first draft, revising, expanding into rough draft, alpha reader, revising, beta reading, revising, revising, revising, final draft, and then starting the selling process. But other than that…
NaNoWriMo, Day 29: 1009/48566.
1,009/48,566.
It’s those last two thousand words that are killing me, let me tell ya. On the other hand, the book’s done, in terms of plot anyway. And on the gripping hand, I also want/need to finish up the Patreon short story tonight, and that’s been about a thousand words already, so there you go. Still, I’ll probably be able to hit 1,434 words tomorrow.
Moe Lane
PS: I know that it’s an artificial benchmark, but it’s still a benchmark, dig?
NaNoWriMo, Day 28: 1557/47557.
1,557/47,557.
A bit less than my usual 1.67K, but if I hit the same number today and tomorrow it’s 50K, easy. Besides, I’m just filling in some blanks at this point. More out of might-as-well-do-it-now than anything else.
NaNoWrimo, Day 27: 1702/46000.
1,702/46,000
Annnnnnd that’s the end of the book. But not the end of the writing. I have to add a bunch of stuff to make the narrative work better. That’s completely independent of the revising and subsequent drafts, of course.
But dude.
NaNoWrimo, Day 26: 2105/44298.
2,105/44,298
Welp. The climax of the plot is written. After this, it’s a matter of spending another couple of thousand words writing the epilogue and using the rest to insert a bunch of stuff into the text. And then we have the first draft of a short novel.
Dang.