I wanted to warn you that the newsletter will be going out on Saturday, so if that’s something you’re interested in (it does include pictures of my cats), put your email in the box at this link. Be sure to then check your inbox for a confirmation.
New pages of Last Watch Before Dawn will be up Tuesday and Friday! This chapter is going to be pretty dark, but I promise the following one will be much more hopeful. Things have to get worse before they can get better.
I hope that in the real world, we’re also in the part where things have to get worse before they get better. Unlike fiction, we don’t wait for the writer to get to it; we have to make it better ourselves.
So, here’s some petitions, as a small effort you and I can make:
I’ll have another page of Last Watch Before Dawn for you tomorrow. This will conclude the second chapter, so on Friday, I’ll have some bonus art on Patreon. The next chapter will commence the following Tuesday.
The eight-month sleep regression has hit the household (and me in particular), so my brain is currently made of pudding, but I love you and appreciate you. Take care of yourselves, and stop by again soon.
Loreena McKennitt, “The English Ladye and the Knight”
It’s the first weekly song of the new year! Welcome back!
I’m still trucking along on Last Watch Before Dawn, so I’ll have another page up tomorrow and one more on Friday. We’re three pages away from the end of this chapter. This volume will have five chapters (we’re coming up on the end of the second one) and a total of about ninety pages.
A couple of petitions for today, because yelling at the people who do have the power to make the world marginally better is sometimes all we can do:
I’ll have another page of Last Watch Before Dawn for you tomorrow. It will be the last page of this first chapter, so next up will be some bonus art, and then we’ll be moving onward and forward and meeting some new characters! I’ll try to get the bonus art out later this week, but you may have to give me some grace around the impending holiday. I have so many pies to make. Going forward, I am going to try to stick to a posting schedule of Tuesdays and Fridays with (hopefully) minimal interruptions.
I’ll be back soon with more comic. In the meantime, take care and stay warm, and I hope you have plenty to eat whether or not you’re observing Thanksgiving.
I had a lovely time at Story Keepers Books on Saturday. I love meeting readers the best, but I often meet other authors, and since I’ve been doing this for a little while, sometimes they ask me about independent publishing. This happens often enough that I think IngramSpark should give me a sponsorship for all the free advertising I’m giving them.
Even though they definitely won’t, I can still answer your questions. I’m mostly making things up as I go along, but I did finish three books and get them out into the world, so I guess I know something? Comments are open, in any case.
My goal for this week is to finish the next page of Last Watch Before Dawn today or tomorrow and finish another page by Friday. We’ll see how it goes.
I hope you had a happy and safe Halloween. I would like to report that my baby was extremely adorable in her dragon costume.
I was hoping to get some drawing done last week, but the audiobook ended up taking up all my time. In related news, THE AUDIOBOOK IS LIVE! I’ll be back shortly with links and things for you!
So, I’ll be drawing this week, and will hopefully have a page for you by Wednesday. Now that the audiobook is done, I will try yet again to get back to a good working and posting schedule.
I had a lovely time at both Spooky Frog and What the Hex this past weekend! What the Hex was interrupted by a church group handing out flyers about how we’re all going to Hell, but they were eventually driven off.
I also realized that I’m seeing a lot of people who have already read one or more of my books! It is really great to recognize faces and be recognized in return, but I need to get some new material out! To that end, I’ll be trying to focus more on the comic than The Well Below the Valley for a little while, though you should expect new content from both to gradually make its way to you.
Last week’s episode of The Well Below the Valley will be up here on Wednesday for free reading.
The recording of The Book of the New Moon Door is finished and edited! I’ll be uploading it to the audiobook platform this week. Expect a release date soon.
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