Patronizer copies of #tlsmastery and #OnlyFootnotes, ready for pickup.

Also, @akoshibe's contributor copy of Only Footnotes. Her illos make the book. Plus, I'm shipping her a copy of #terrapinSkyTango. Beaks fans know why. Mind you, you'll note that I waited to give her that book until *after* I got some art out of her...

Maybe you read #TerrapinSkyTango and wondered "Hey, where did this SO-aptly-named character Stabbity Joe come from?"

Wonder no more. Stabbity's origin story has escaped.

Yes, it's a romance. A stabby romance.

https://amzn.to/3tM5gKW

Maybe you read #TerrapinSkyTango and wondered "Hey, where did this SO-aptly-named character Stabbity Joe come from?"

Wonder no more. Stabbity's origin story has escaped.

Yes, it's a romance. A stabby romance.

https://amzn.to/3tM5gKW

More basement cleaning treasures!

Dad's knife collection, including one that I think might--MIGHT--qualify as a short sword. If you've read #terrapinskytango and wondered where Stabbity Joe came from: he was born in this box.

Then, a reminder of simpler times.

Wanted to add a "Beaks Bundle" to my ebookstore. It should really include the spin-off #EarthquakeKittenKiss.

That book is four years old, formatted with Jutoh, and kind of clunky compared to #ButterflyStompWaltz and #TerrapinSkyTango. Also, used wrong author name for badly thought-out reasons. So, reformat with current back matter & such, and redo cover.

Should release with my own ISBN, too.

I pulled one string. The unspooling heap was inevitable, despite my total failure to predict it.

Seems that capybara feature prominently in #cashflowforrcreatives.

This is NOT as an apology to @akoshibe for using her name in #terrapinSkyTango. I don't need to apologize for giving characters names. Even really awful characters get names.

But if I did have to apologize, this would be part of it.

600 words on #skybreach in 1 hour.

I burned a bunch of #writing time glorying in finally being able to tell folks about my #terrapinSkyTango/#BSDCan prank.

Don't really *like* that, but it's OK. How often do I get to tell a story like that? You gotta take time to enjoy the results of your work, otherwise... what's the point?

You want more Beaks? This is how you get more Beaks.

Wherein she threatens Santa with the gift of eating through a tube and crapping in a bag for the rest of his life. Because Beaks.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/wmg-holiday-spectacular-2019

No, she's not in one of the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" collections. But you knew that.

#butterflyStompWaltz #terrapinSkyTango #Beaks

A weird thing about #butterflyStompWaltz and #terrapinSkyTango. ​

Male readers say "Wow, what an incredibly angry woman!"

Women say "Yeah. That's about right."

Yes, authors are dependent upon book reviews for sales.

But we also depend on them for warm fuzzies. Really, nothing gives us warm fuzzies like a review from a reader who love the book.

Like this one, for #terrapinSkyTango

"With a (literal) break-neck plot, filled with explosive set pieces and hard-driving characters, author Michael Warren Lucas returns to the thriller genre as if he had something to prove. He really doesn’t."

https://amzn.to/33xf2lZ