I might be able to get the short story done tomorrow, and hopefully I will by Wednesday. Then I can go over it again, tighten it up, and get it out by the end of the month. Fair warning: there may be a little spleen involved. I have been in a mood, and this may lance some of it.
Tag: short story
The October Patreon stuff is up!
Huzzah. NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, so expect a bunch of updates on Patreon next month.
- Short Story: Wendigo Country Rules. I didn’t particularly like this dude. But he wasn’t there to be nice.
- RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 3a: The American West. This one… maybe requires a bit more research than I was expecting.
The September Patreon stuff is up!
In the veritable nick of time, but that’s okay.
- Short story: The Golem Job. More like a series of connected vignettes (eventually for the RPG), but I think it still works.
- RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part Two (B): Wizards and Society. Establishing the complicated relationship of wizards to everybody else.
The May Patreon stuff is up!
Huzzah!
- Short Story: THE HUNT. Remarkably easy to write.
- RPG setting: Artifacts, Chapter 6: The Temporal Revival Society. New setting, starting next month.
The April Patreon stuff is up!
This was a month where I had to pick myself up by the scruff this weekend and stop messing around. Moral of the story: Fallout 4 is for people who don’t have novels to finish. Anyway!
- Fiction: The Strange Case of Webster Domaine. A Tobias/Asenath moon horror story! This was a Kickstarter reward, but very few people saw it, comparatively. Enjoy!
- RPGs: Artifacts, Chapter 5: Sample Colleagues. I almost junked this RPG setting early, but I decided to try to come up with interesting temporal flotsam. And it worked! Includes a cameo.
The January 2023 Patreon stuff is up!
And I’m tired!
- Fiction: ROCCA JACK AND THE LIQUID GOLD JOB. Privateers! Bears! A vampire! And Cursed Jersey!
- RPG material: Artifacts, Chapter 2: The World, Iteration ∞.0. Note the infinity symbol! How swanky!
There ya go.
The August Patreon Entries.
Stuff I just make up stuff about: science fiction, and warfare!
- Short Story: Tour Of Duty. It’s amazing what people get used to. Set in the same universe as the upcoming novel GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
- RPG Entry: Ashes of Empire, Part 6b: The Overthrow War. The next entry will probably be the last one. This one looks at the broad details of the war, because the war itself would make for a better wargame.
The February Patreon stuff is up!
Huzzah!
- Short story: THE STARS ARE WRONG. Fiction. Cosmic horror is where you find it.
- RPG: Ashes of Empire, Part 2: The Empire of Ash (Section I). This may be a more complicated game world than I thought.
‘Job Along the Borderlands’ short story is up on Patreon!
The Tom Vargas story was rapidly becoming a novella. Job Along the Borderlands is a Fermi Resolution story that will appear in the short story collection, mind you. So: feedback is welcome.
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.