I ordered books for the #DevotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter fulfillment at the end of March. Made one order that included paperbacks and hardcovers to ship to my house, plus a couple dozen to ship from the printer direct to the backers. No biggie.

Ingram said: "We can't put your paperbacks and hardcovers in the same order, because our internal processes are stupid. But here are your two invoices."

Credit card statement lumps the paperbacks, hardcovers, and two of the individual orders.

Dear #DevotionAndCorrosion backers:

the online launch party is tomorrow. 10AM EDT. Check your updates for details.

Dear #DevotionAndCorrosion backers: the online release party is scheduled.

#DevotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter wrap-up:

https://mwl.io/archives/22670

While D&C won't be out in regular stores for a while yet, you can grab it in ebook direct from me.

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/devotion-and-corrosion/

Use release windowing to nudge people into buying direct from me instead of using Amazon? Would *I* do that? Oh, heck yes, I would totally do that.

Awake.

Goal for today: mail the #DevotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter rewards.

Not a physically difficult job, but tedious. In theory, shouldn't trigger covid exhaustion.

But if I get woozy, the project shuts down.

Assembling the final leather-cased books for the #DevotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter backers.

I gotta say, that's a whole lotta rats.

Today: rest, but move enough that I can sleep tonight.

Laundry.

Wrap a few #devotionAndCorrosion hardcovers in cases.

Maybe see if I can find the maliciously deleted files on my sister's laptop, if my brain retains the spoons after 1 and 2.

The #devotionAndCorrosion paperbacks arrived for me to sign and ship for Kickstarter backers.

I do not have the strength to get the books upstairs, or the brain to address envelopes. :flan_piteous:

Sorry, folks. Hoping for next week.

It won't be out most places for a while yet, but you can now grab #DevotionAndCorrosion on my web store.

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/devotion-and-corrosion/

Started fulfillment on the #DevotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter, by shipping the ebooks and ordering print books.

Last two panels, "Crowdfunding for Creatives" and "AI and Artists," submitted to Penguicon.

I guess it's time to finish setting up my test environment for #ryoms. :flan_hacker: :flan_set_fire:

Today: doctor, Costco, patronizer "See the Sausage Being Made" post, finalize plans for the #devotionAndCorrosion leather cases.

Also pondering how to get recycled circuit board cases or bindings for the complete #gitCommitMurder trilogy late this year.

Me: I held expenses down this month, good. The credit card bill will be low.

Credit card bill: What about shipping for fulfilling the orc kickstarter and the OMF pre-orders? Do you remember how much that came to?

Me: :flan_heckk:

But, the bills are paid and the fulfillment for #devotionAndCorrosion is organized. When KS pays me, I can hit a button and send everything on its way. I think that's a day, I have laundry to heap and a rat cage to scrape.

That's the #DevotionAndCorrosion backer surveys sent out, and the thank-you update done.

This Kickstarter campaign is literally tooth money. I sincerely appreciate everyone who helped.

Today: prepare to fulfill the #devotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter, get the regular version out for pre-order for a 1 May release, and make some words on #RYOMS . :flan_writing:

100 minutes to go on the #devotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter, and 100 backers total! :flan_cheer:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

I gotta admit, I would LOVE to break $3500 on this. Would put me clearly above what I would have made had I used a trad publisher for this book.

(No, that doesn't mean I want you to back out of pity. I am merely expressing non-actionable feelings and hopes. But one leather case backer would put me there.)

Only four hours left on the #kickstarter for #devotionAndCorrosion, the collection of my best stories from the last ten years?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

I could sit here and watch the clock tick down, or I could go to the dojo. Getting repeatedly punched in the face is more productive that sitting here refreshing the page and freaking out every time the total changes and every time it doesn't change, so I'll go get punched.

But I would be delighted to return home and discover that it had broken $3500. It would make me giggle.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

The #devotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter has 13 hours left!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

"Each story is Hieronymus Bosch writing a love letter to Charlie Brown’s little red-haired girl now grown and so weary she aches. Can you grasp that? Can you grasp an Elmore Leonard Hallmark romance? Or H.P. Lovecraft exorcising his demons as a kid out of love for himself before they calcify his adult heart? Does familial love—like rat familial love—get its due in your life? Rat familial love amasses in the thousands, and always with ready teeth. What Lucas has done is present the xenomorph from ALIEN going in for a French kiss: burning things to the bone so that the unspoken underpinnings show through.It’d be one thing if our species remained simply insane, but there’s that “glorious” part. That glorious devotion. Love, per Chuck Tingle, is real. Love is also a product of the imagination. We feel what we believe." Kresge Fellow and kick-butt writer @zzclaybourne, from the Foreword.

A mere thirteen hours until I can shut the heck up and retreat back into my cave. But until 10PM EST today, I need to shill this #Kickstarter for my best short fiction of the 2010s, with a glorious cover by Welder Wings.
Everyone who backs it gets a copy of my collection "Vicious Redemption," my best short fiction from 1995-2010.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

You can even get a Kickstarter-exclusive leather case, with custom art by the delightful Lara Jean Doodles.

Thirteen hours to grab all this!

Or, you can mute me for thirteen hours. Whatever works for you.

Only 37 hours left on the #devotionAndCorrosion #Kickstarter! Soon I can stop telling you about this!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

11 of my best stories from the last decade, all involving love. There's a stabby romance, even though my romance writer friends assure me that "stabby romance" is not a thing and that I'm a bad person. The dead rise, rats swarm. Mad science, of the "She's not dead, I just haven't saved her yet!" variety. And more! Plus, everyone gets a copy of my collection "Vicious Redemption," which covers the previous decade.

You could get an exclusive leather case with custom art by Lara Jean (https://www.instagram.com/larajeandoodles/). Studio 42 Books did their usual magnificent job of putting it together.

But everyone gets the lovely foreword by @zzclaybourne. Read it at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion/posts/3725896 . I'm getting ZZ to write all my book jackets from now on, he's that good.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion/description

And that cover. I've never had one like it, and probably never will again.

Thank you for helping me make this a Thing.

Out of all the stories I've written in the last ten years, here are eleven of the best. With 54 hours to go on the #devotionAndCorrosion #kickstarter, you're running out of time to grab yours.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

You'll get brain implants, three little old ladies who should have been left the hell alone, a kid in the woods roaming the fourth dimension, a couple different artists, and the origin of Stabbity Joe. Everything's driven by love, but none of these are love stories.

Plus, everyone gets a free ebook of my collection "Vicious Redemption," short fiction from the previous ten years.

Thanks to my glorious backers it has a heartfelt foreword from our own @zzclaybourne, which you can read at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion/posts/3725896

Devotion. Corrosion. Flip sides of humanity's favorite coin.

And, if you want, the exclusive leather-cased edition with custom art. Once the Kickstarter ends, this cover vanishes forever.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion

Three days left on the #devotionAndCorrosion Kickstarter!

You'd get a heck of a deal on eleven of my best stories from the last ten years.

Thanks to my backers, it'll have a magnificent foreword by the inimitable @zzclaybourne -- you can read it at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion/posts/3725896

You could even get a lovely custom leather case, complete with Sufficient Rat.

But if you don't, Welder Wings did a fantastic job on the regular cover.

All backers also get a copy of my collection "Vicious Redemption," which covers the previous ten years.

This is almost your last chance. And really, I'd love to get this past $3000. Go take a look.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/devotion-and-corrosion