“It’s just a minor breach in the cold rooms,” the black-haired nurse says. “We’ve sent for a priest of Ondir. Everything is perfectly safe. You’ll just have to wait for a while.”
The Book of the New Moon Door
It’s finally time for the zombie apocalypse. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon, or wait until next week when it’s available here!
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Between my many, many projects, the holidays, and various personal complications, I’ve lost track of NaNoWriMo and I won’t be able to finish. It’s the proverbial plate I’ve chosen to let drop so I can fulfill my other obligations, including getting chapters out to you on time. Even though I won’t “win” this year, I made a ton of progress on The Book of the New Moon Door, and will be finishing Part Two this week! Like I’ve mentioned before, this has moved up the timeline, and it’s looking like I’ll be able to publish New Moon Door next year.
Also happening this week: a new chapter of Journey to the Water goes up on Patreon tomorrow, the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will be up here on Wednesday, and a new episode of The Well Below the Valley will also be on Patreon on Thursday.
Also also: the November edition of the newsletter will go out Wednesday! If you’re not signed up yet, put your email into the box at this link, and then check your inbox for a confirmation email. (You won’t get the newsletter if you don’t click the confirmation link.)
As always, I appreciate you. Have an excellent week, stay warm, and stop by again soon.
If you’re in the US, tomorrow is election day! Go vote if you haven’t already! It’s important for the health of our democracy that everyone has a hand in choosing the people they’re going to argue with for the next 4-8 years. Here’s a handy link where you can find your polling place.
I will be working at a polling place tomorrow, so the new chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will go up on Patreon Wednesday, and the latest chapter of Journey to the Water will be up here on Thursday.
In other news, I’m already behind on NaNo. Hopefully I can catch up this week.
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I think that’s it for today! Have an excellent week, and stop by again soon. I appreciate you.
Joe Hisaishi, “The Dragon Boy” (from Spirited Away)
Good morning, happy Monday, and a pleasant spooky/harvest holiday to you!
The first order of business for this week is the newsletter! The inaugural October issue will go out at about noon today. If you would like to receive it, and haven’t signed up yet, you can put your email into the box at this link. It will send you a confirmation email. Once you’ve confirmed, you are on the mailing list!
Second order of business: the next chapter of Journey to the Water and Episode Seven of The Well Below the Valley will both be released on Patreon tomorrow!
Third and last: NaNoWriMo is coming. My goal is to write 50,000 words of The Book of the New Moon Door in the month of November, finishing Part Two and making some headway into Part Three (possibly finishing the entire thing, depending on how it goes). This will give me a nice backlog that will prevent future disruptions to the usual posting schedule and get me closer to being able to edit and prepare it for publishing!
I think that’s all for today. Thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.
Hi everyone. I made a note about it at the end of the last chapter I posted, but I was very sick for about three days this week because my insurance made me wait to fill a prescription. I’ve got it now, and I am back to normal! It was just a dumb thing that happened because we can’t have nice things in this country, on account of the horrible old white men who can’t stand the thought of people of color occasionally receiving said nice things. (As a side note, SNRI withdrawal is no joke, and please don’t ever quit your meds cold turkey. I love you and don’t want you to experience it.)
Currently, I’m working on several things:
Episode 7 of The Well Below the Valley
The newsletter, finally
Alternating chapters of Journey to the Water and The Book of the New Moon Door.
Since The Well was already delayed, I want to be sure to get that out on time; the newsletter has been a long time coming as well. Those will both still be done by November 1st. Regular chapters of Journey and New Moon Door will experience a slight hiccup next week, but be back to normal within a week or two. I also plan to use NaNoWriMo to knock out a bunch of chapters and build myself a little backlog.
I’m so sorry this month has been disrupted so many times! Thank you for being patient. I appreciate you.
I’ve been reluctant to start a newsletter because my plate is full enough with THREE serial projects and a social media presence (also, I hate emails and didn’t want to inflict more of them on you), but my marketing research is saying that authors need to have a newsletter and people like receiving them. What do you think?
(ETA: Give the poll a second to load. It should appear right below this sentence.)
Feel free to post any other thoughts you have in the comments!
