Category Archives: Announcements

Hey, there’s something coming up that I want to tell you about!

Where To Find Me

The late 2022¹ Twitter fiascochuro² necessitated the creation of a socials post detailing where you might find me on the various social media platforms. Here we go!

howardtayler.com
schlockmercenary.com
twitch.tv/howardtayler
howardtayler.bsky.social
post.news/howardtayler
tumblr.com/howardtayler
twitter.com/howardtayler
dice.camp/@howardtayler
youtube.com/howardtayler
threads.net/@howardvtayler
instagram.com/howardvtayler
patreon.com/schlockmercenary
kickstarter.com/profile/howardtayler

These were sorted in order of URL length, rather than in order of preference, or priority, or anything like that.

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¹ Followed by the July 2023 Twitter ratepocalypse or limitageddon.
² I totally made this word up. I think “fiascochuro” would have meant “darkness in a bottle” in old Italian, but since “fiasco” kind of means “disaster” these days, my word probably means “dark disaster,” or maybe “a bottle of dark disaster” if we push the envelope a bit.

A Little Immortality: The Kickstarter!

We’ve launched the Kickstarter for A Little Immortality: Schlock Mercenary Book 17, and it has already funded.

Also, it has already blown past all but one of our original stretch goals, including one that gives everybody (not just backers—everybody) a free desktop wallpaper.

Our plan was to launch it *quietly* on Tuesday, and then announce it here a day later in order to see how our newsletter was performing, but the launch was not quiet, and then things got busy, and now the “a day later” is more than half a day gone.

I’d write more, but everything I want to say is over on the Kickstarter project page, so click that and learn all the things!

I’m Still Alive, It’s True

If your only method for taking my pulse is asking “how often does this site update?” I probably seem kind of dead. Whoever it was who said “the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” they nailed it.

Of late I’ve been focused almost entirely on the XDM2e project. Here’s a fun picture I drew for that book.

Once that project is complete, I’ll dive back into more Schlock Mercenary print editions. In the meantime, I’m still role-playing on Tuesdays with TypeCastRPG, and quietly developing the worldbook and back-stories for a completely new project which I’m not ready to announce yet.

The salient point here is that I’m still alive, and “alive” appears to be a stable, persistent sort of condition. Yay!