Year in Review, Part the Second

Happy New Year!

Looking back at last year’s Year in Review, I had a lot of big plans for this year. Most of them didn’t happen. I did finish and publish Journey to the Water, finally, squeaking it in before the end of December. I also attended an astonishing SIXTEEN events and markets, which continues a terrifying pattern in which I quadruple the number of events attended each year (one in 2022 and four in 2023). Other plans, like finally fixing up my Patreon and working on the Tarot of the Gates, did not come to fruition.

Continue reading “Year in Review, Part the Second”

Song of the Week

Sinéad O’Connor, “Jackie”

Happy Monday.

I am hard at work on rewrites for The Book of the New Moon Door. I was originally trying to keep up with Journey to the Water as well, but I think at this point I need to concede and put Journey on hiatus until New Moon Door is done. Since I have plenty of chapters of New Moon Door, I can post one a week (first on Patreon and then here) for the next month or so.

This is for a number of reasons:

First, rewrites are going to take a lot of my time. The original draft of The Book of the New Moon Door is over 170,000 words long. In order to achieve an October release date, I’ll need to finish the new draft ideally by the end of August.

Second, I’m not going to lie to you: Baldur’s Gate III came out. I’m a fairly disciplined writer, but I’m not that disciplined.

Third is below the cut for medical stuff and complaining about the US healthcare system:

Continue reading “Song of the Week”

How did we get here?

I’m doing a challenge on Instagram! As part of it, I was asked to share my journey to becoming a writer, so I thought I would share it here as well.

Continue reading “How did we get here?”