STATION IDENTIFICATION: Infinitefreetime.com

On July 19, 2015July 19, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

Welcome to Infinitefreetime! I’m Luther Siler. I’m the author of Skylights, available for $4.95 from Amazon and most online book retailers, and The Benevolence Archives. Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 is 99 cents from Amazon and FREE from any other online bookstore, including Smashwords or OpenBooks.com. Volume 2, entitled The Sanctum of the Sphere, can be ordered from Amazon here or added to Goodreads shelves here. All three books are available in print as well, and the print edition of Sanctum includes BA 1 as a bonus! Autographed books can be ordered straight from me.

This post is a bi-weekly service for new folks who might want to know where else to find me on the Web. Regular folks, if you see the STATION IDENTIFICATION tag, feel free to ignore it.

So here’s where to find Luther Siler on the interwebtron:

You can follow me on Twitter, @nfinitefreetime, here or just click the “follow” button on the right side of the page. I am on Twitter pretty frequently; I use it for liveblogging TV, whining about anything that strikes me as whine-worthy, and for short, Facebook-style posts. I generally follow back if I can tell you’re a human being.
My author page on Goodreads is here. I accept any and all friend requests.
I have a Tumblr! I don’t actually know what Tumblr is, because I’m old, but I’ve got one.
My official Author page on Amazon is located here.
Feel free to Like the (sadly underutilized) Luther Siler Facebook page here. It’s mostly used as a reblogger for posts.
And, of course, you’re already at infinitefreetime.com, my blog. You can click here to be taken to a random post.

Thanks for reading!

I’M MELLLLTIIIIINNGGGGG and also on fire

On July 18, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Uncategorized4 Comments

Im-Melting-Feel-Desain Statistically speaking, it almost has to be happening somewhere: despite the fact that the rest of the world is slowly roasting, the temperature trend in the Great Lakes region has been distinctly cooler than usual for the last several years. Our last two summers have been unusually mild, rarely even getting into the 90s, and our last two or three winters have been brutally cold. It is July 18; to my knowledge we have not had a day even hit the upper 80s as a high yet, and the words “heat index” have not found reason to escape my lips thus far. There haven’t even been that many days yet that have escaped the seventies. I haven’t worn shorts more than once all summer.

It’s been glorious.

It will be over 100 degrees today between 1:00 and 7:00, and I have to work at OtherJob, which means I’ll be outside for at least two or three of those hours. And it’s not like 98 degrees is gonna be much better; it’ll probably be 10:00 before the temperature descends into remotely livable territory. And that’s not “Man, it’s been a hot summer” 100 degrees, it’s a twenty degree jump from what we’ve been used to.

Give my wife like a week to get used to the idea after I die, and then y’all can come over and divvy up my books.

Taking the day off

On July 17, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn MusicLeave a comment

Have a song:

In which I am terrible at vacation

On July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy1 Comment

I have actually gotten some stuff done in the last few days– Benevolence Archives 9 got written and submitted to Lightspeed Magazine, and by the end of the night Starlight ought to be cracking the 10K word barrier, which is kind of a big deal psychologically, even if it took way too long to get there. There have also been various errands run and deeds accomplished, in addition to going slowly insane from job-related stress.

I have also been watching this man beat Bloodborne, in its entirety, every boss, using only the gun. Which by rights ought to be impossible. And yet he does it. I know! He has like 12 hours of videos uploaded to YouTube and over the last couple of days I have watched (or, at least, had running on one monitor while I did something with the other– I love having a dual-monitor setup) every second of it.

Every.

Second.

People appear to be sending him money while he is doing this, by the way.

Video game streaming culture is interesting. Part of me wants to run screaming because of the timesink aspect and part of me thinks this is a way cheaper way to stay current on what’s going on out there. I think I probably need to choose “run screaming,” but who knows.

Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 is now indisputably available in print, just in case you’ve spent the last fourteen months chewing your fingers and hoping. Order away, if you like– just remember it’s also in Sanctum, and you get a better deal if you buy Sanctum.

It’s as real as my skull, and it does exist!

On July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing4 Comments

Got my proof copy of Benevolence Archives Vol. 1 yesterday. I’m really pleased with how it turned out– it’s still a thin volume, obviously, being only 150 pages long, but it’s got a good heft to it for all that and looks decent on the shelf.

As of right now Amazon has created a page for it but it’s listed as “unavailable.” I assume that will fix itself later today, and that the other print book online retailers will be following suit soon as well. It’ll be $7.99 if you buy it through Amazon; if you get it from me at a con it’ll be $5. (And I’m still waiting on some things to come together before I can announce what that next con will be.)

A quick word: Keep in mind that the entirety of BA 1 is included with the print edition of The Sanctum of the Sphere. I’ve gone back and forth on whether I should keep Sanctum as an omnibus or not and for now I’m sticking with it just because I’m thinking the print BA 1 will be mostly a thing I sell at conventions. Plus I’d have to go back to my artist to alter the cover for Sanctum again and I think she might eat me if I do that. If you want both of them for the shelf, obviously, go for it, but if you’re unconcerned about that and just want physical copies to read, I suggest just ordering Sanctum.

(Goes and looks at shelf, geeks out again.)

(Reminder: Signed copies of Skylights and Sanctum remain available at reasonable prices. Signed copies of BA 1 are not available because I only have the one, and you can’t have it.)

New movie/comics post up at Sourcerer!

On July 15, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn movies

I watch the five most important trailers released at SDCC and say inflammatory things about them designed to get people to yell at me. Check it out!

#TopTenTuesday: The Last 10 Books that Came Into My Possession

On July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn ReadingLeave a comment

Each week, The Broke and the Bookish holds Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly book blogging meme. This week, we’re talking about books that we’ve recently acquired–the last 10 books we acquired, of course. These are the last 10 I bought, in quick-and-dirty Gimp .png version:(Technically, I got a copy of The Sanctum of the Sphere in the same shipment that brought me The Mechanical, but that would be eleven books.)

In which I am preparing to woohoo

On July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing4 Comments

The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 is tantalizingly close to its thousandth download. You know you want that download to be by you. It’s free everywhere but Amazon, but I’m not gonna get mad at you if you decide to throw me a whole 99 cents for it over there:

After that, we start working on getting Skylights to number 200 and Sanctum to number 100. Whee!

It is good that I have a minor milestone to celebrate today, because otherwise I’m slowly going nuts. I’ve said many times that I’m bad at being on vacation. I managed to survive last summer without any real difficulties, but the job stress is somehow way higher this summer than last, and I just can’t find any jobs that I think I’m qualified for and want to do. Note that I’m defining “qualified for” as “other people will think I’m qualified for,” as I know I can do dozens of jobs competently that on paper I’m not going to look qualified for. Trouble is, “trust me” doesn’t work well on a cover letter. I just met my wife for lunch a couple of hours ago and I’m pretty sure I did nothing but bitch and complain for the entire meal.

I need to find a way out of this mess.