{"id":4159,"date":"2016-03-22T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2016-03-22T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:49:34","slug":"more-graphic-snippets-of-early-2016-now-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/22\/more-graphic-snippets-of-early-2016-now-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"More graphic snippets of early 2016; now explained!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Upcoming\n

Twice, since December, I’ve posted some mysterious cropped images from things I’ve been working on (here<\/a> and here<\/a>); and each time I’ve posted them without any explanation. Today makes the third time. But today, guess what? I’m going to tell you what they are.<\/p>\n

Starting in June I’m going to serialize a series of short stories at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/a><\/em>. Now, the Thrilling Tales<\/em> site is mostly known these days for the Pulp-O-Mizer<\/em>. That’s because I haven’t run a real serial over there since the conclusion of The Lair of the Clockwork Book<\/em>.\nBut that will change in June, when you’ll see the first of five stories set in the Retropolis Registry of Patents.<\/p>\n

That’s a department of government that oversees patent registrations for the city’s Experimental Research District, from which all Mad Science flows; but the Registry also has a secret purpose that Registry Officers and Investigators never mention in public. Because that’s what you do <\/em>with a secret purpose.<\/p>\n

I just finished the first draft for the fifth story; twenty-one of these stories’ thirty-four illustrations are also done. After the fifth Registry story there may also be a stand-alone story, but you won’t see the conclusion of the Registry of Patents series until they’re all collected in print and eBook form sometime next year.<\/p>\n

That collection will contain all six of the Registry stories plus three or four other stories about Retropolis. They’ll all be pretty profusely illustrated.<\/p>\n

I’m making some format changes for this series. Past Thrilling Tales<\/em> have featured updates (that is, web pages) with a wide variation in word counts. That’s caused problems when it came to laying out their print editions. Some serious<\/em> problems. So this time each week’s story update will run pretty close to one thousand words, with an illustration.<\/p>\n

That makes the book layouts much easier to handle even though it still results in one heck of a lot of illustrations. Which, seen one way, is nice. But it means that my nose has been pressed into my monitor for the past few months; and my nose is likely to stay there for awhile longer.<\/p>\n

The new stories will also feature illustrations in black and white, as you’ve been seeing. The cost of the full color illustrations in my earlier books put a lot of limitations on where and how you can buy them. Also, I’ve decided that Black and White Is Cool.<\/p>\n

So that’s it. That’s what I’ve been doing, and what I’m still doing, and you ought see it for real in June when we begin with The Purloined Patents of Doctor Brackett<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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