An old woman. A horse-thief. A young girl. An android. It would be a lot funnier if the world wasn’t ending.
Okay. It’s safe to say you guys BLEW MY MIND today. Let’s do the count for the first 24 hours:
59 books, pre-ordered by
41 readers
1 crazy video which I may have to integrate into the cannon
So right now I’m sort of speechless. Let me use this space to answer some questions I’ve been asked over the last day:
Q. Who designed the cover?
A. It was designed by Simon Clarke of Minegraphics. Some of you may know Simon as Slim from Goodgroove Records, my partner in crime in The Sly Players. I’m very excited to collaborate artistically with Slim again, previously he also designed the cover art for my Plastic Starfish album.
Q. What does The Punch Escrow mean?
A. This has been a very popular question today so I sent out the Gallimaufry earlier today. That turned out to be more information than most people required. Let’s make it simple: The basic idea is that teleportation would generally suck as a transportation method because if something went wrong you get something like this:
When someone teleports, the Punch Escrow is a room in which the they are held, well, in escrow, until they safely arrive at their final destination. That way if anything goes wrong during teleportation, one of the conductors could just cancel the trip and the traveler would walk out at the point of origin as if nothing happened.
A. What’s the status of the book?
Q. The manuscript is done, there is a finished first draft of The Punch Escrow out there. It’s about to enter it’s developmental editing phase. I have some big announcements about that which I’m saving for later.
Q. Are any of the retro styled documents you’re posting in the book?
A. No, they’re just world building tools. Here’s a new one. Seems like International Transport was investigating Joel’s on and offline social behavior:
If you have any more questions or feedback, I love hearing from you. Thanks so much for your support!
