(The micro-cannisters that housed the 12 nano-brains of the Remnant within a test-tube spaceship that traveled the galaxy for more than a million years following the destruction of their civilization by the angels. Don’t get the reference. Read The Journals! Archive here.)

I’ve been on a tear with The Journals of Doctor Mormeck the last couple days, as might be obvious from the blog entries. I’m up near 30,000 words and think it will be about 45,000 or 50,000 in rough draft form when done.

I’m also posting little “outtakes” and snippets that will go into future entries as facebook statuses, usually with a real-world image involved. So feel free to friend me on facebook (it’s not my fan page, it’s my personal facebook page, jeff.vandermeer, on fb).

The images are interesting. Since the settings include several alt-Earths, I’ve continued to transform our world into fodder for the storylines, and thus more and more real-world images are coming into play. Some things, like the mecha-komodo above, I bought specifically for the purpose.

Anyway, hope you’re still enjoying the story, and feel free to donate to vanderworld at hotmail.com via paypal if you like it. Any donation $21 and above and you’ll get it in final book form, whenever that happens. I’m pretty much ignoring some book offers to finish this off, so it’s eating into my live-off-of income…