Jun 19, 2016

Dear friends and followers,

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I spent the past week catching the shows at the Montreal Fringe Festival, and reviewing them. I’ve been lucky this year in having picked some very strong performances; even the worst among my picks was merely "okay".

So I haven’t really been focussing on the pre-order sales for "Murder at the Veterans’ Club", and, to be honest, I think it may be time to sit back a bit, regather my energy, and reconsider my approach. Also, I need to finish that short story for "Too Many Controllers".

For now, let’s have another look at the Veterans’ Club officers. This time, Edward Garrett:

And meanwhile! What’s happening on the Inkshares bookshelves? Let’s take a look at a couple more books in the Nerdist contest:

1) "Destiny Imperfect", by Peter Ryan. I think I said something similar back when I talked about Ryan’s other book, "Sync City", but Ryan has a great "voice". He does "angry dystopia" really well, and a good voice is 75% of a book’s quality. "Destiny Imperfect", which appears to be a parallel-world "who’s really in control?" deal, is no exception.

2) "SideScroller", by Andrew Fantasia. Swashbuckling adventure/romance, it says, and who doesn’t love a bit of that in their lives? The story progresses on video game rules: when we get a peek at one character’s ID card, it looks more like an RPG character sheet than any sort of real-world ID. It’s a sort of "meta" sensibility that would appeal to anyone familiar with video game mores.

And that’s it for this week. Until next week: have fun, and keep reading.