This month’s newsletter will also be a bit short.
I definitely ran into some issues in March, but they seem to have passed and they didn’t interfere too much with my writing. Or at least that’s what I’ve been telling myself. In terms of raw output, I have actually been trending upwards on a month-by-month basis so far, so this is good. The problem is that those written words are spread across several different projects. If I was just working on a single project, I’d have a novel and be on my way into the sequel based on March’s output.
Anyway, here’s what happened last month.
GOBLIN GIRLS DO IT BETTER II was officially released.
And early access to OUR OWN WAY 4 was launched.
And finally Lakeside Cougars was revealed!
April is pretty much going to be more of the same.
OUR OWN WAY 4 will be finished this month. Right now, it’s looking like almost certainly a late April release.
LAKESIDE COUGARS will continue to see regular updates at one chapter per weekday (Mon - Fri).
Once OOW4 is finished, I’m going all in on BENEATH THE ASHES 3. I’m intending to have that finished sometime in May.
Still basically no update on SHELTER FROM THE STORM. I’ve come to realize that enough time has passed that I’ll need to do a full re-read of everything I’ve written so far and refresh myself on it. I want to clear a few things from the table before I do that.
That’s pretty much it. Things are basically looking the same as when I started at the beginning of the year, but some things will probably shift in priority. Beneath the Ashes 3 is top priority, as it’s the only one that’s on a contract and has other people waiting for it, professionally speaking, to be finished. I’d say Lakeside Cougars has second priority, because I’ve been promising it for so long and I really do not want to push it back any further than I already have. I’m still waffling on Our Own Way as a series, if I’m going to continue it past five or not. I imagine I won’t have a sure answer until I actually sit down to begin working on OOW5.
If anything needs to get bumped to the back burner to make room for the priority projects, it’s definitely going to be Goblin Girls III. I still was holding out some kind of hope that maybe the sequel would get more attention and take off at least a bit more than it already has, but no. Goblin Girls II pretty much was the final nail in that coffin. That being said, I am committed to finishing the trilogy, and definitely in 2024. It might just get bumped back a bit.
The only other thing I have to say for the moment is that I’ve got two secret projects. One of them is finished (on my end, at least) and will be out sometime in the nearish future, I think? If you’re active in the community, it shouldn’t be a surprise what it is, but I still don’t want to actually talk any details in case that might fuck things up. The other secret project is still too secret to actually talk about, but it should be, shall we say, familiar to you if you’re familiar with me. It will also be out in 2024, so you don’t have to worry that this is some thing that’s still years off. Depending on how April goes, I might be able to talk about it in May, but probably closer to June or even July is when I can speak of the details.
That’s it. Wish me luck.