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04/23/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

Chapter 12 edits done. That’s perilously close to half the book, and isn’t THAT weird to consider. At this rate, I’m going to run out of things to do before I can publish the blessed thing.

As for the FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter: well, we are kind of stalled at this point. Mind you, by “stalled” I mean “plateaued at 1200% financed and waiting for the final 48 hours.” Still, I was hoping for two more backers before I revealed the next tiers and the $4,000 stretch goal. Both the tiers and the stretch goal have been carefully chosen to be something that I can do without extra effort AND without increasing my shipping costs, so I’m very excited at the possibilities.

In other words: if you’ve got friends who might be interested in the book – and/or an idea where to talk up this sucker that isn’t this site, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, the SJG forums, the FunCom forums, and/or my Patreon – feel free to add your input.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moelane/frozen-dreams-a-novel

Eight days on the Kickstarter! Sign up now!

The end of the beginning looms. Eight days to go, so if you were planning to join up now’s the time. A lot of stuff that was discounted for FROZEN DREAMS backers will not be discounted in the FROZEN DREAMS Backerkit, alas and alack.

And, yeah, there’s still those sonnets! At this point, the sonnets thing is just making me laugh. Although that might just be the quarantine. God, what I wouldn’t do for a set of antibody tests* right now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moelane/frozen-dreams-a-novel
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Drift Compatible podcast mentions my Kickstarter.

My buddy Brent Cochran does a podcast (Drift Compatible), and he was kind enough to plug the FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter at the end. Brent’s a good guy and although I don’t do podcasts* this one sounds like those of my readers who do like podcasts might like this one. IYKWIM. :significant look:

Moe Lane

PS: Wear the headphones.

*I dunno why I don’t ‘do’ podcasts. I just don’t.

Fulfillment of the Great 04/13/2020 Kickstarter Flat-Out Cooking DARE!

Wow, OK, that worked. “That” being my promise to make this recipe if I hit two grand on the FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter today. I did, thus necessitating the assemblage of the ingredients. I was particularly impressed with the way my wife handed me a bunch of muffin cups when I asked, slightly despairingly, whether we even had such an esoteric item. She’s good at that sort of thing.

Anyway: behold! Red Wine Chocolate Mini Muffins!

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The Great 04/13/2020 Kickstarter Flat-Out Cooking DARE.

Here we go. IF I hit $2,000 on the Kickstarter today I shall make this recipe:

https://www.facebook.com/moe.lane/posts/10223296569230996

I have everything except the sprinkles. I will do this. I will not be constrained by the artificial chains of sanity, and none shall stand in my way! Not society, not civilization, and nay, not even my wife and her endearing wince at my enthusiasms! The muffins will be made. THIS, I COMMAND!

Plus, I get muffins out of it.

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The Dreaded Kickstarter Plateau.

We’re getting to the midway point of the FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter, and I thought I’d describe some of the stuff that’s going on behind the scenes with it, as it were. In particular I thought I’d mentioned the Dreaded Kickstarter Plateau.

The basic, more-or-less accurate gist of this is: Kickstarters have a burst in the beginning (as everybody signs up in the first rush) and a burst at the end (as everybody who meant to sign up does so before the deadline). In between lies… the plateau. These are the days when you get a fraction of the interest that you did before, and your obsessive clicking of the refresh button doesn’t get you that sweet, sweet dopamine rush that comes when you see the numbers go up.

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Listen to the first two minutes of FROZEN DREAMS!

FROZEN DREAMS – First 2 minutesDownload

BEHOLD! The above is the first two minutes of FROZEN DREAMS, narrated by Sally Stewart, narrator of “Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus.” We haven’t hit that pledge goal for the Kickstarter – yet – but, with less than $200 to go for the $2K stretch goal, I need to be keeping track of what’s coming up, and what I may have to pay for. If you like audiobooks, or just want to hear the first scene from the book, check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moelane/frozen-dreams-a-novel