Okay, that's #apocalypseMoi uploaded to other, lesser bookstores.

Lesser than mine, that is.

You'll be able to preorder from Kobo, Apple, etc, soon. (Or you can get it from my bookstore right now, but you probably already know that.)

blog post on the release of #apocalypseMoi.

https://mwl.io/archives/23070

Today: updating bundles on tiltedwindmillpress.com for #apocalypseMoi.

Someone bought "The Full Michael" earlier this week. I sent him a copy of "Apocalypse Moi" anyway, because I'm not a monster.

(Okay, fine, I'm not THAT sort of monster. I might hide under your bed so I can leap out devour you in your sleep, but I'm not trying to be a freaking billionaire.)

Moo Acopalipse by Like Mucus finally here!
aah no, we’re not at that time of the year yet

But it’s still a cause for celebration today!

Mike Lucas’ (@mwl) #ApocalypseMoi is finally in my greedy #AntiLibrary

(or it’s just me that’s greedy and the calibre library is just a long suffering repository 😂)

https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/111014016377983296

Dear Patronizers and #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter backers: you have a book. Please check your update source for an update.

Me, working on #apocalypseMoi jacket copy: eleven stories

on Kickstarter: eleven stories

on web site: eleven stories

on print book: eleven stories

Vellum, today: TWELVE stories. Dumbass. Also, that "default number chapters" thing that you always try to turn off? Yeah. It's there for a reason. Dumbass.

The paperback cover for #apocalypseMoi

#apocalypseMoi print layout done! 176 pages, which happens to be incredibly convenient for printing.

Today: the print layout for #apocalypseMoi!

Prepping the ebook is much easier, but print demands much more attention to detail. It forces me to study the manuscript one last time. I always catch one or two errors.

Today: monthly accounting. Blog post on #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter completion. Process copyedits on that book so I can get it into production.

The #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter is done, so I can get the book in production.

But today, a writer buddy gave me the title for my Christmas collection, so that's now gonna be a thing. :flan_despair:

It'll be called "Harm for the Holidays," Kickstart later 2024, and contain:

- The Last Multivariable Differential Christmas
- Heart of Coal
- Sister Silence Night
- The Rats' Man's Lackey and the Forbidden Tinsel
- A Different, Better Red
- Next we Rob an Istanbul Prison
- The Last Hour of Hogswatch

Obviously, such Christmas. Very holiday.

90 minutes to go!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

Looking at how #apocalypseMoi has gone up over a thousand bucks already today, and thinking: we might actually hit the next stretch goal and give everyone another whole novel? It could happen?

Thanks to everyone who's already backed, and if you have any interest in apocalyptic revelation tales, please take a look.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

Tangent to #apocalypseMoi and #30DaysOfDoom and Fury Road:
You wanna see some Mad Max driving in the real world?

I have videos of my #rats driving up at https://ratoperatedvehicle.com.

Much less budget, but just as much respect for road signs.

Wow, I bet folks will be thrilled to see me stop shilling #apocalypseMoi every day and return to my regular shilling of everything else. :flan_tired: :flan_despair: :flan_piteous:

THE END IS NIGH!

The "Apocalypse Moi" Kickstarter ends in ten hours. It's less than $350 from the next stretch goal, so, we might actually make it? That would be cool. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

For the very final #30DaysOfDoom permit me to go back to the beginning and:

Mad Max. Fury Road.

Yes, we opened with Road Warrior--but FR isn't the same. It really isn't. RW has heavy themes of abuse and loss, but FR is about our humanity and how we lose it.

Plus, some of cinema's most badass car chase scenes.

And take a look at the #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter. I'd appreciate your support. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

Dang it, I miscounted!

The #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter ends tomorrow, not today.

Which means I must scramble to come up with another #30DaysOfDoom.

Apocalypse is about revelation. It's about heightened understanding of what's really happening, in a way that wrecks your world.

So I think I'll go with "my own incompetence." I'm well aware of it, yet it always surprises me.

Anyway, I'd appreciate your support. We incompetent people need all the help we can get.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

Two days left on the #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi)! We're almost done! I have almost escaped!!!

But that leaves us with the penultimate #30DaysOfDoom, and saving the world one last damn time.

Imagine an afrofuturist Buckaroo Banzai, with vampires and barbecues and moon aliens and the False Prophet Buford shilling salvation. Plus, a sexy octopus.

That's ZZ Claybourne's duology, "Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan" and "Afro Puffs are the Antennae of the Universe."

There are always those who want to wreck the world, those who stand on the sidelines, and those who stand in the way.

https://zzclaybourne.com/

Zigs is also a cool person. We get fried chicken, watch Star Trek, and figure out how to create despite everything. One of those ways is Kickstarters. Like the one for Apocalypse Moi. I'd be grateful for your help. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

Three days left on the #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter! Grab your signed book while you can, because after that you pretty much can't. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

#3 on the #30DaysOfDoom (yes it's #3, the doomsday clock always ticks backwards) is Mary Balogh's "Survivors Club."

Yep. Not only romance, but a Regency.

Everyone you meet is, by definition, a survivor. The question is, what have they survived? And how can the genre defined by Jane Austen be apocalyptic?

Take seven horrifically damaged survivors of the Napoleonic Wars, and put them in romances. These books are heartfelt, and warm, and stuffed not just with damage, but life and love and finding a path forward even though you will never be the same again.

Start at https://marybalogh.com/portfolio-posts/the-proposal/

And once you've binged, well, every damn thing Balogh wrote (how dare she be so good? HOW DARE SHE???) you could open your Kickstarter copy of #apocalypseMoi -- if you back it within three days. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

Want some masterful, doom-filled writing? My friend and colleague, the inimitable @mwl has a Kickstarter, and the clock is running out:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi

#ApocalypseMoi @bookstodon #bookstodon

Four days until the #apocalypseMoi Kickstarter ends and I get to shut up. But that leaves us with four of the #30DaysOfDoom!

So let's have one of my very favorite apocalypse artists: Blue Öyster Cult!

Yes, there's Black Blade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1yaNC1mNg), but I already did Elric so: no.

There's the whole of Imaginos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaEe5qpb9b0&list=PLVPGzOHIIgz-kljsCDQU4PSeJi-t-su5z ) which is totally "a disease with a long incubation time." Doom-laden like mad.

But for REAL apocalypse? In its truest sense, revelation?

The guys are old. Their latest album is probably their last, and they're going out on a high note. Keep that in mind and listen to the final track on their final album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulRU64XEIM

No, shut up. Listen to it. And imagine closing out a life, a career of stardom, an existence many folks envy, feeling this way. LISTEN TO THAT CLOCK TICK.

Perhaps in another couple decades I'll be able to rip your heart out like that.

In the meantime, I have "Apocalypse Moi." I'd appreciate your help making this a book.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/apocalypse-moi