STATION IDENTIFICATION: Infinitefreetime.com

On October 14, 2018October 13, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

This post normally runs every other Sunday or so. I figure since I just did a convention, I might have some new readers– so here’s some other places you can find me!

I’m Luther Siler. I’m a writer and an editor. Welcome to my blog, infinitefreetime.com.

I’ve written several books you might be interested in, ranging from short story collections to near-future science fiction to fantasy space opera to nonfiction, all available as ebooks or in print from Amazon. Autographed books can be ordered straight from me as well.

I can be found in several different places on the Internet. Here are the important ones:

Support me on Patreon! Just a dollar a month gets you access to exclusive stories, early access to new books as they come out, and more! $2 or more a month gets you access to CLICK, an entire exclusive book!
You can follow me on Twitter, @nfinitefreetime, here or just click the “follow” button on the right side of the page. Warning: Twitter is where Politics Luther hangs out, and Politics Luther is usually angry and profane. 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.
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Thanks for reading!

KOKOMO-CON 2018: The Cosplay

On October 13, 2018October 13, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Geek, PhotographyLeave a comment

So tired.

Had a really good time.

But SO tired.

Have cosplay.

The view from my (new) hotel window: Kokomo, IN!

On October 12, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Photography1 Comment

Tomorrow! 10-5! Kokomo Event and Conference Center, booth #44! Come say hi!

Also, nice view.

What we need … is a video

On October 11, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy10 Comments

This is probably the single most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever done in this space, so please, forgive me, but: we’re vlogging tonight.

I’m so very sorry.

View from my hotel window: Noblesville, IN

On October 10, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Photography1 Comment

Rainy, but the room is nice! And the first day of the conference was not a waste of my time. I’ll take it.

In which I’m a bit of a dick

On October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn life1 Comment

I accidentally said “Have a nice weekend!” to at least two or three different people today at various points, confusing the hell out of at least one student, and when I skipped out of the office (more or less literally) saying “See you Monday!” to everyone, I did it knowing full well that because I am going to be out of the building for three days I will probably end up with six days’ worth of catching up to do once I come back. So the last laugh is sure as hell gonna be on me.

It’s been a hellishly busy couple of days, but busy is all it has been, and busy I don’t really mind. I’m good at busy. Of course, I’m gonna stay that way for good chunks of the next several days, and they seriously think I’m gonna be in Indianapolis at 8:00 in the morning tomorrow, too, which would be a hilarious joke if motherfuckers weren’t serious. So things might be a little light around here for the back half of the week, but I’ll make up for it with cosplay pictures after the con.

My copies of CLICK are supposed to show up tomorrow, which is good, because tomorrow is pretty definitively before the con, but it’s also bad because I’ll already be gone before they get here and I won’t get to hold or touch the precious before I see them when my wife brings them to me Friday night. I’ll need to decide how much I’m selling them for, too, once I actually see them.

…damn, I need a new price board.

More to do! Hooray!

I’ll post a hotel view picture tomorrow. Behave, y’all.

In which I’ve made a terrible mistake

On October 8, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy2 Comments

I should never have been allowed anywhere near Bitmoji, and now that I’ve succumbed, getting text messages from me will never not be annoying again. It’s going to be legitimately goddamn difficult to not print this out and leave it on my office door while I’m out of town later this week:

Speaking of, I was out Friday, and I spent the entire day today running to catch up from the carnage created by being out of the office for one day. It wasn’t a stressful day, necessarily, but it was one of those days where I say to someone “let me go drop this off in my office and I’ll take care of that,” and six people grab me on the way to my office, four people call while I’m in my office, and two more grab me on the way back and what should have been five minutes turns into an hour. Just busy as hell.

I will be out three days this week, and I don’t know how the hell I will ever recover from it. But hey: that’s next week Luther’s problem! This week Luther only has to go to work two days this week and then gets to take a road trip.

Stop me, someone. Use bullets if necessary. I deserve it.

I just need one that says “buy my books!” or “Support me on Patreon!” and I’m set.

In which post titles are really hard sometimes

On October 7, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn life3 Comments

My wife and son both had Friday off so I took it off as well, and the three of us have mostly lazed around all weekend, which is not something I’m going to complain about. We went to the zoo on Friday– and I strongly recommend going to the zoo on a Friday afternoon when a rainy morning and a weekday means that not many other people are out and about.

Which is fine. Because for the most part the world spent all last week going to hell– even beyond the obvious stuff in Washington, which I just don’t have the fucking energy to even talk about. Wednesday night, one of my co-workers at the furniture store died. He was in Indianapolis for his cousin’s funeral, which was enough of a shitshow to begin with, staying at his sister’s. He went to sleep and didn’t wake up the next morning. He was thirty-one fucking years old, and I doubt the cousin whose funeral he was in town for was much older.

Nobody is supposed to die in their fucking sleep at 31.

His roommate also works at the store. He told me the other night that the last thing Griff said to him was that at least his grandmother, who passed away all of a couple of months ago, wasn’t alive to have to attend the funeral of one of her grandkids. And now she’d have to go to two.

I can’t pretend we were super close. We were co-workers. I liked the guy quite a bit. But his funeral is tomorrow in Evansville and I’m not going, because I already have to be in Indianapolis for a conference from Wednesday through Friday and the con on Saturday and I just can’t squeeze in a ten-hour round trip drive today and tomorrow. But it’s got me fucked up anyway.

This post wasn’t supposed to be about Griffin. I meant to talk about video games a bit; I’m still trying to beat Dark Souls 2 (getting closer, especially if I decide it’s okay to ignore the DLC) and I haven’t played Spider-Man in like three weeks because I got abruptly tired of it like a day after my initial impressions post. The combat consistently annoys me and I’m not convinced it’ll get better. I’ll probably bring the PS4 with me to Indianapolis, though, so I’ll have time to play when I’m not at the conference.

I dunno. I got too much fucking serious in the world right now. For right now gabbling about video games is where my head’s at. At least I thought it was.