Story: "Seeing Things" (Part 5 of 6)

This story fills a square on my card for the hc_bingo fest. This fest encourages the creation of boundary-pushing material that explores what happens when things go horribly wrong and people actually care about each other. I'm hoping to attract some new readers for my writing.

The following story belongs to Schrodinger's Heroes, featuring an apocryphal television show supported by an imaginary fandom. It's science fiction about quantum physics and saving the world from alternate dimensions. It features a very mixed cast in terms of ethnicity and sexual orientation. This project developed with input from multiple people, and it's open for everyone to play in. You can read more about the background, the characters, and a bunch of assorted content on the menu page.

Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. This is a crossover with BBC Sherlock. You can read how these characters found each other in "THE Woman," and the beginning of the morning after in "Texas Sunrise." Additional inspiration came from a thread with siliconshaman, jeshyr, and thnidu.


Fandoms: BBC Sherlock / Original: Schrodinger's Heroes
H/C: Panic attacks
Medium: Fiction
Summary/Preview: Sherlock, who does not deal well with bizarre surprises, has moved into a place where those are ubiquitous. Also he is hungover. Won't this be fun?
Content Notes: Spoilers for BBC Sherlock Season 2. Home cooking. Friendship. Tentacles. Happy ending.

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Saving a Language

 ... with the help of a cellphone app.  Hey, whatever works.

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

The November 2012 Crowdfunding Creative Jam is open on Dreamwidth and on LiveJournal.  This month's theme is "portals."  Come leave us prompts, or claim prompts for your own creative efforts.

A Translation App

There is now an app for cellphones that does realtime voice translation.  Sort of.  It's progress.

Link courtesy of my_partner_doug.

Poem: "This Inward Gate"

This poem is the freebie for the November 2012 Crowdfunding Creative Jam.  It was inspired by a prompt from mdlbear.

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Update: Larry Elmore Artbook

I'm following the Kickstarter for Larry Elmore's artbook.  The first and second stretch goals are completed.  The first reward level is $49 and that gets you a copy of the book plus the stretch goal goodies.  There are some midrange rewards left but all the higher end stuff is already sold out.  I would love to have a copy of the artbook but it looks like that requires catching the fundraiser; I might scrape up $49 but $80 is pretty much hopeless.

Here's a recent announcement from the Facebook event:

A few people have been asking, how much is this book going to retail for.  How much of a savings are we getting, back you with Kickstarter.  So after some discussion with the powers that be (mainly Bettie, my wife) we have decide that The Complete Elmore Art Book is going to retail for $80. 

 

So after the Kickstarter campaign is over you will be able to purchase it from my website, a few hardcore game stores, and my website.  Cost of shipping from my website is $10 us, and $20 non-us.  

 

So currently, US fans are saving about $40 and the non-US fans are about breaking even. 

 

Here is the retail value of our current stretch goals...

---Dragon print set, $30

---Sketch Book, $20