Tag: song of the week

Song of the Week

Florence + the Machine, “King”

Good morning!

It’s the last week of the month, which means the newsletter is coming out–noonish my time (Central US Daylight) on the 30th (Friday). You can sign up here if you haven’t already. Be sure to check your inbox afterward for a confirmation link! This month’s newsletter will include garden pictures, updates on The Book of the New Moon Door, and pictures of my cats.

There will be a new chapter of Journey to the Water on Patreon tomorrow. I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled nonsense (one chapter on Patreon, one chapter here) next week.

As always, thanks for being here. Happy Pride, and may rain fall on your garden but not your parade! Stop by again soon.

Song of the Week

Rhiannon Giddens, “O Love Is Teasin'” (Traditional)

Hello! Happy Monday! I hope you’re well on this fine morning.

ETA: Happy Juneteenth! I didn’t realize what day it was.

I regret to inform you that there will be a minor disruption to the normal posting schedule. Between travel and recovery from travel, last week got away from me, and this week looks similarly busy between my cats’ annual checkups and several home improvement projects. There won’t be a new chapter of Journey to the Water this week, but the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will be up here on Wednesday. I should have a new Journey chapter ready by next week, so your regularly scheduled nonsense will resume shortly. I’ll also have an update on New Moon Door‘s editing progress soon.

As always, thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Genesis, “Jesus He Knows Me”

Good morning! I’m posting early because I’m traveling today. Also, this is the blog’s 500th post!

Editing of The Book of the New Moon Door begins this week. In the meantime, I’ll have a new chapter of that on Patreon tomorrow, and you can read the latest chapter of Journey to the Water here on Wednesday.

I’m also excited to announce that I’ll be at What the Hex Witches’ Market again on July 16! More on that later.

Thanks for stopping by, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Orville Peck, “Big Sky”

Good morning!

Firstly, I am happy to announce that The Book of the New Moon Door is complete! I am the proverbial day late and a dollar short, of course, but it’s done. Final word count for all three parts, including chapter headings, is 170,764. This will probably change significantly as I go through the editing process this summer. New Moon Door has been the least structured of my serial novels (which is a gentle way of saying “I was definitely making this up as I went”), and I’m looking forward to pruning it into shape.

This week, I’ll have a new chapter of Journey to the Water on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of New Moon Door will be up here on the blog Wednesday.

As of right now, here’s the plan for all my projects going forward: Journey and New Moon Door will continue their biweekly schedule while I’m editing New Moon Door. I’m aiming to publish New Moon Door this year and Journey next year. In between those, I want to revisit The Well Below the Valley and The Tarot of the Gates, possibly rewriting and reformatting the former before writing some new content for it.

I’ll keep you updated as things progress! Thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Daniel Hart, “Blome Swete Lilie Flour” (from The Green Knight)

Happy Monday!

It’s a holiday, so just a quick note. Tomorrow: The Book of the New Moon Door on Patreon; Wednesday: Journey to the Water here on the blog. Also on Wednesday, the May edition of the newsletter will go out around noon Central time, so make sure you’re signed up before then if you haven’t already!

I hope you’re enjoying your day. I appreciate you!

Song of the Week

Tom Morello, “16 Tons” (American folk song)

Good morning! Here’s a song with a lot of history.

I’m banging out the end of The Book of the New Moon Door this week! I’ll also have a new chapter of Journey to the Water on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of New Moon Door will appear here on Wednesday.

It’s getting toward the end of the month, so I have to plug my newsletter–don’t forget to sign up if you haven’t already! I send it only once a month, and it has writing and publishing updates as well as pictures of my garden and my cats. Put your email into the box at this link and then check your inbox for a confirmation link.

There won’t be a new episode of The Well Below the Valley out this month/June 1st, as I’m focusing all my writing time on finishing New Moon Door and staying on top of Journey. I’ll be getting back to it soon.

I think that’s all for this week. I think I promised some garden pictures last week and then forgot? So I’ll try to post some this week.

As always, I appreciate you! Stop by again soon.

Song of the Week

Tori Amos, “Sweet the Sting”

Good morning! It’s Monday again. It’s also planting day for me, so stay tuned for garden pictures.

I’ll have a new chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door up on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of Journey to the Water will be up here on Wednesday. My sprint to the end of New Moon Door continues: as of today, I’ve finished 17 of the 26 chapters in my new outline.

Thanks for stopping by! As always, I appreciate you.

Song of the Week

The Renunciate, “When the World is Dead”

Good morning and happy Monday! Please enjoy this song, inspired by N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, one of my very favorite books. I met the band on Instagram, so if you like them, check them out!

Brooke and I went to What the Hex Witches’ Market on Saturday! It was a delight and a smashing success. Hello to everyone we met there!

Image of our booth!

For this week, I’m continuing to sprint towards the end of The Book of the New Moon Door. I’ll have a new chapter of Journey to the Water on Patreon tomorrow, though it may be a little later in the day than usual. The latest chapter of New Moon Door will be up here on Wednesday.

As always, thanks for being here, and have an excellent week!

Song of the Week

Aoife O’Donovan, “The King of All Birds”

Good morning and happy Monday!

I am happy to announce that I achieved my Camp NaNoWriMo goal of 30,000 words for the month of April.

A screenshot of the NaNoWriMo Stats page, showing 30379/30000 total words

I am about halfway done with Part Three of The Book of the New Moon Door! I’m setting another 30,000 word goal for May, to finish the draft.

On the subject of New Moon Door, the next chapter will post to Patreon tomorrow. I’ll have the latest chapter of Journey to the Water up here on Wednesday. Because I’m spending all my writing time on New Moon Door, there won’t be a new episode of The Well Below the Valley this month, but I hope to pick it up again soon.

In case you missed it, I’m going to What the Hex Witches’ Market on Saturday, May 6! You can find all the information you need, plus a sneak preview of my new bookmark, at this link. Entry is free! I hope to see you there.

As always, I appreciate you. Have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Iris, “Hell’s Coming With Me”

Happy Monday! A bit of a throwback for this week’s song.

We’re still on the normal posting schedule for this week: a new chapter of Journey to the Water will be up on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door (chapter one of Part Three!) will be available to read here on Wednesday.

Because I’m spending all my time working to finish New Moon Door, there won’t be a new episode of The Well Below the Valley on May 1st. The Well is the project with the fewest readers, so it’s the proverbial plate I’m letting drop. I might be able to get one out June 1st, but that will depend on how quickly I finish New Moon Door.

Also, if you haven’t already, sign up for my newsletter! It goes out once a month and contains pictures of my cats and my garden. The link will take you to a box where you can enter your email address, and then you’ll be sent a confirmation email. Be sure to click on the confirmation link, or you won’t be added to the mailing list.

Lastly, I’ll be at What the Hex Witches’ Market with Brooke of the Figuratively Speaking Tarot on May 6! I’ll have a post with more information later this week.

I think that’s all for now. Stop by again soon, and have an excellent week!