But you’re welcome to buy it now.
TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION: “Set in the same world as FROZEN DREAMS, this sprawling anthology stretches over 900 years of future post-apocalyptic fantasy history! There are ten stories, including several never before published; and, for fans of FROZEN DREAMS, there’s a new novelette starring Tom Vargas.”
Moe Lane
Continue reading TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION will be on Kindle super-sale tomorrow!I spent it prepping DUTIES for publication. One more pass-through tomorrow, and then I submit it first for Kindle, then paperback. I don’t think I’ll have copies in time for Fright Reads, though. Alas.
Regular posting resumes tomorrow.
My wife suggested that I do an offset of the image, this time, because of the nature of the picture. What do you folks think? I could go with both.
UPDATE: She was thinking of something like this:
Which, admittedly, is a good deal better than what I thought she meant originally. Look, I just bang on the clicky-things until the words come out of the magic thought-box.
…it would be useful if you could finish up (or just send me what you got) by the end of the week. Once I have all the feedback I’m getting, I can put the Kindle together and get the whole thing ready for printing. Also: if time has cruelly, cruelly betrayed you, no worries. Time snuck up on me, too.
After that, it’s a pass-through, and then it’s time to put the book together. I should start the cover soon.
Anyway, the publishing schedule for DUTIES might slip a little. But I definitely should have it for Stellar Con. Besides, I’ll have TINSEL RAIN available for Fright Reads, which is really the important thing.
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
Not the final hi-res versions, but this is what we’re going with. I like the one for THE FIGHT IN THE GROVE in particular. But I like them all. I also need to find out how the artist wants to be publicly credited.
I’m supposed to be getting the final art for the stories by the end of the week – subject to approval, of course, but the preliminary sketches looked fine – and I plan to spend the rest of this week getting the last story fixed up. I decided not to work on it today, because what I really need to do is read the whole thing and figure out what needs fixing. But once that’s done, actually writing it shouldn’t be too hard.
So if you’re interested in doing beta reading for these stories, now’s the time to sing out. I think that if I get it all squared away in two weeks, I can publish DUTIES and have it ready for one of the two book fairs I’m doing this fall. I’ll already have TINSEL RAIN to sell for the first time at Fright Reads, but having another chapbook by the Stellar Con would be nice, too. Assuming I can still get a table for that: my email decided to send a critical message to spam. Yay…
It’s official-official because I put down the down payment for the art. I hope to have DUTIES ready for Fright Reads, because that’ll mean I’ll have two new things for that event (the other being TINSEL RAIN). But definitely by the end of the year!
So now I just have to buckle down and get that chapbook ready for the readers. Yay…
Moe Lane
PS: It has been not the best month or so for my motivation, alas. But it’s not like I have a clone to foist off writing duty on…
#commissionearned
…to have it for FrightReads (tentative title: DUTIES). I’m talking to the artist now; she should have plenty of time to finish the art. So if I can revise the stories and get them beta-read in a timely fashion, Amazon can do the rest. And, if not: they’ll be ready for the next con. I definitely will be selling TINSEL RAIN at FrightReads, of course. Looking forward to it!
#commissionearned
While I’m waiting for edits for TINSEL RAIN, I’d thought I’d work on the upcoming chapbook DUTIES. It’s the usual four-story job, and features some of my earlier work. Which means the stories have to be gone over, fixed up, and fleshed out more. Back when I started, I was struggling sometimes to hit 3K words on one of these. Now 8K is a much more reasonable goal.
