Already posted the cover twice on the previous page like a ninny so I won't do it again, but Gideon the Ninth released last week. Debut SFF book, hit number 12 on the IndieBound hardcover fiction bestsellers. I love it more than the first time reading it if possible, and my store - which doesn't do SFF in any big numbers - sold 13 copies in the first week during a dead time of year.

I love this book and am so happy that it's seeing success.

God it's been way, way too long.

I think you overestimate how much people care. To most it's a simple - as in, not ten million faces busy - poster with a saber duel, lightning, and Palps in the back.

Even now there are a ton of nutrients in the ground there. Prevailing winds grab the airborne stuff and shoots it across the Atlantic, and maybe 2% of it - still tons and tons and tons of the stuff - helps fertilize the Amazon.

Nice. Reminds me of the opposite back in '02 where Joss Whedon intentionally framed people on far opposite sides of a wide shot with a ton of space in the middle to force a 16:9 broadcast from Fox.

Ugh that would have been a really good idea. Of course, Shadow would have arbitrarily limited its length or lengthened the distance to keep some sort of crucial detail obscured.

OHHHHH-kayyyy, here we go. Did what minimal audio processing I could do (mostly bass and teble boost to the appropriate tracks, and another boost that I found recommended somewhere online that I liked) and then video editing.

Wish I hadn't sung it that high but whatever, you edit the four year old performance you have, not the one you want.

You don't actually want that.

(That said, I sat down this morning and worked on my tracks from the Still Alive project and will probably be releasing that next week.)

So. I just watched Sad Max. For the first time.

It's been in the background here for so long, but... I'd never gotten to it. I offer no excuses. I made physical discs of Adventures in Faking This and never sat my kiester down to watch Sad Max.

Teague, I know I'm late to the party here, and I can say nothing that I'm sure this community hasn't already said before, but god damn this is great. I wanted to reach out to Max and say, "I'm here, I'm a new subscriber and I care," but I'm seven years and one apocalypse late.

Browsing through the thread now, I can only echo what others say. Lighting was magnificent - I turned off the lights in my room about ten minutes in to watch in sympathetic darkness. You always had it at just the right angle to feature your eye well, never too front-lit and never too side-lit.

And Disproportionately Happy... man, I had no idea how it would end without just falling off a cliff but you made it work. You brought a smile to my face - remembering what he'd devoted, literally, the last three weeks of his life to, and that he'd accomplished it.

And to your performance, Teague. Genuine. One hundred percent. I was never watching Teague, a VFX artist who used to run a podcast and does music stuff sometimes, I was watching Max, a musician who runs (or, I supposed, used to run) a YouTube channel with a decent following.

(But yes LatinAlice totally whooped your butt on waaaaiiiitttiiinnnggggg.)

Great job and you have my deepest apologies for not actually getting around to this sooner.

I feel like Bogoths were one of the groups responsible for the fall of Rome.