Welcome to the Banshee Beach Backerkit! Tom Vargas is back! And on vacation!
How it started.
If you're new here, Tom Vargas is the hero of my post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective series (set in the world of the Fermi Resolution). As the above picture suggests, he lives in an an... interesting world. You can read the first two books in the series here if you just can't wait.
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Moe Lane
2 days ago
Midmonth of July, and everything is going smoothly.
My plan for the next couple of weeks is to create a video for the Banshee Beach Backerkit, which is the last major thing that needs to be done before the project drops on September 10th (as part of Printopia 2026). I'll be requesting a review for the project after that, which will hopefully go very smoothly. It won't go perfectly on the first try, because Backerkit itself takes these projects very seriously, and they go over everything with the proverbial fine-tooth comb. Which personally I find fairly reassuring.
I really need to write a story about this.
I've included below for followers of the project a recent microfiction from my Patreon: From “Tom Vargas and the Case of The Bear With a Hat.”Three guesses what it is about! But please do follow, if you haven't yet. Every little bit helps in the pre-launch period.
Two months to go! And adding Ghosts on an Alien Wind to Add-ons!
Huzzah!
Everybody is going through some stuff there.
Ghosts on an Alien Wind is my first non-Fermi Resolution novel - oh, yes, I plan to write others - and it's pretty much creepy cosmic horror science fiction:
Something murdered the Galaxy. There was no warning, no explanation, and no mercy... except for humanity. Humans were the only sapients spared, and nobody knows why. Now Earth and her colonies gingerly explore the Tomb Worlds, picking through the ruins of dead civilizations for answers, or at least treasures. The researchers sent out can bring back wonders. If they survive.
Pamela Tanaka is the Chief Pilot for a research outpost on the terrifyingly comfortable world of One-Eighteen, and she is precisely where she wants to be. But when madness, murder, and mass sacrifice profane her chosen home, she must search for answers on her own - but not "before it's too late." Everybody who goes to the Tomb Worlds knows 'too late' has already come and gone.
Click the link abover (or here) to grab the Kindle, if you can't wait - but it'll be available as a physical add-on in the Backerkit. US shipping only, alas.
In other news: two months to go! And things are moving along. Looking forward to the Backerkit; and if you haven't followed the project yet, please do so!
New poll (Should there be more Tom Vargas short stories?)! And don't forget to get the free story!
I am working out what I'm doing in the future, and asking the question: more Tom Vargas stories, in addition to novels? (There's going to be at least two more novels.) Go here to follow the Backerkit (and get a free Tom Vargas story in the process), then do the poll at the bottom.
Welcome! And don't forget to download the free story!
What free story? This free story: Tom Vargas and the Case of the Meddlesome Priest. It's supposed to be available when you follow this project, but the link is in the exclusive follower-only section, just in case.
It's not stealing if you have permission.
I'd also like to ask that you talk up the project. Hand out this link like candy! It will help a great deal.
