RED LIGHT BYTES: Updates Dossier (4-22-2024)
RED LIGHT BYTES: Updates Dossier (4-22-2024)
The Latest From Your Favorite Cyberpulp + COVER REVEAL!
Overview
If the ever-elusive “they” are correct, and time flies when you’re having fun, we are hurtling through the hours at Mach-speed here at HQ! We’ve got an array of exciting announcements for you today, from news about series production to our growing arsenal of expanded media. And in the spirit of this, let’s get the heavy hitter out of the way. Right here, right now.
Roger Steele & THE SHORT CIRCUIT REVOLUTION: Coming Soon
We even put a date on ‘er this time! Next Monday on April 29th, join reconnaissance agent Roger Steele, punk vigilante Lita, and activist leader Lucille Devenreux for the wildest night of their lives in the shadow of the omnipresent computer network A.C.E.S.
It began as an investigation into game-changing protest group Haven Reformation, spurred on by the death of an undercover Infantry contact. What followed was a night of distrust and deceit, and a day that would change the very course of the city’s history.
Starring faces new and old, The Short Circuit Revolution is a white-knuckled novella that starts out like a spy thriller and ends as only a 365 Infantry story can end, by hanging a hard left turn into uncharted territory and expanding the world as never before. That’s APRIL 29TH for those playing at home. We’re going to take our time quadruple checking the book over, with our proof racing through the mail as we speak.
To dove tail this into our story-patching campaign, I’ve officially decided to use the book manuscript as my basis for reuploading Steeled Spies. The serial will still be paid-sub only, and will retain its original cliffhanger structure, but given how much has been fleshed out over the course of editing, I feel it’s only fitting to have the best possible version available in all formats.
I’m also going to break Steeled Spies out of the Electric Extras category and house it under its own name. Not just for ease of access, but because the adventures of Agent Steele have only just begun!
Other Updates
As you can see, our favorite desert delinquent is now in living color! Work on the album art for Alan Firedale: Original Soundtrack Vol. 2 is coming along splendidly. On top of that, we’re working on finalizing the track listing, and most importantly of all, have settled on what we’ll be including as special bonus material for the album, though that’ll remain top secret for the time being.
In the meantime, I do wish to share with you all a track from the forthcoming album. It was during scoring sessions for Part 1 of “The Cypress Fires” that one of my favorite arrangements of the series main theme came to be, a chipper little march befitting the red wolf and his wholesome hot rod! Here it is for your delectation and mine:
“March of the Desert Delinquent” from Alan Firedale: Original Soundtrack Vol. 2
Now, speaking of production, Issue 9 for Summer 2024 is underway. Writing starts this week after some intensive planning, and all concepts for this issue’s art are now in Kevin’s hands. I’m gonna start sounding like a broken record at some point, but to hell with it, because I truly believe every issue is getting better than the last, and I hope to keep upping the ante as we go along. This will be an issue of great change, great excitement, and as always, great fun.
Biggest change to format I’ll tease here is the following: while Tales From The Front Lines will always remain the “true” anthology in our multi-narrative potpourri, it will be hosting a special three-part serial for the remainder of the year. A very special, very daring serial.
Lastly, let’s talk Quick Bytes.
This thing kinda just popped outta nowhere, didn’t it? Quick Bytes is basically my no-stakes freebie when it comes to writing for 365 Infantry. It will be published infrequently, whenever the mood strikes. I have A LOT of ideas for this series, and I often find that my best world building comes from hammering these ideas out and away from the main storylines. In many ways, Red Light Bytes as a fiction series has been scratching this itch, but as I grow more passionate for this project, I want to find more ways to explore it without having to make a production out of everything, which I’ve done to RLB via the paywall.
Fortunately, it seems to be going over well, which I’m glad to see. Our first story was a wholesome check-up on father-of-the-year all-years, Buck Sterling, in The Sterling’s Super Beetle. This should stand as a textbook example of the kind of stuff we’ll do on Quick Bytes: checking in on old friends in slice-of-life situations. I might whip up an action or horror story if I’m inspired to do so, but that’s the key word: INSPIRED.
It’s back to the pulp mines for myself and the rest of the 365 crew, but before I go, here’s the latest of these little excursions into those little moments of life. May God Bless You and This Force. Be Seeing You!
