The Misty Vixen Newsletter | December 2024

 
 

Lakeside Cougars is here!

Dead Freeze 2 is also here!

And that’s going to be most of the good news.

I’m going to expand on this more during the new years update, but I need to take some time off in a broader sense of the meaning. I’m having…problems. And they seem to be getting worse. And my biggest problem is burnout. Or at least, my biggest problem relating directly to this. I am…very tired.

What does that mean practically speaking? I am going to have to face the reality that there is basically no chance I’m going to get another novel out before the end of the year. That being said, I will be working on things. Just slower. Quick updates below.

  • OUR OWN WAY 5: Obviously this is the big one. I’ve got a good idea of what’s going to happen in this novel and I’m pretty excited to get to this one. I’m really hoping for this to be out in January.

  • OUR OWN WAY - HAREM SHORT 2: This is the one thing I’ll get out this month. I want to write another short story from the girls’ perspective. I’ll post it for free on my Patreon just like the last one.

  • PRIMEVAL MONO-ROMANCE: Production on this slowed as I worked to get Lakeside Cougars 2 finished in time. I’m intending to make some more meaningful progress on this one. Hoping for perhaps a February release. I’ll start posting it to Patreon when it’s about halfway done.

  • DEAD FREEZE 3: This one…did not get much done on it. It also got set aside, although even harder. Still looking at an early 2025 release. Hopefully.

  • SECRET PROJECT: I’ve been puzzling over this broader problem of needing more breathing room in terms of publishing, and I’ve cooked something up that I think will help. And also will be very fun to read. I’m going to release a separate post about this very soon.

I’ll have more to say January 1st. I wish I had better things to tell you.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | November 2024

 
 

Well October kind of sucked. I had difficulties, both physically and emotionally, and it really fucked me up for a little bit there. I’ve emotionally evened out, and physically I still have to figure out. Yet more new problems that have no obvious cause and hurt. Yay.

Anyway, onto the writing.

Those are the things I managed to get out last month! To expand a little…

  • The omnibus of Goblin Girls Do It Better contains a single bonus short, for those interested in that. There was a delay in the audiobook for Goblin Girls Do It Better III and I’m still not sure how that’s going, except to say that it’s still delayed. I’m hoping it’ll be out this month. At some point next year (I think, don’t quote me) the audio omnibus will come out and then that will be the last thing needed to consider this trilogy fully finished.

  • So I’ve been wanting to write a monogamous romance (or mono-romance) for a little while now. I took a poll earlier in the season and found out that people do very much want alternating perspectives between the man and the woman. Which I have very, very little experience with. So I decided to write a short story as bonus (and canon) content for Our Own Way. IMPORTANT NOTE: That story is completely free, even though it’s on my Patreon. You shouldn’t even have to sign up! I’m just using Patreon to host it. The story itself isn’t too long and is basically just a cozy night in about a week after Our Own Way 4 where Ellen and Chloe and Holly talk about Gabe. I’m hoping it turned out well.

  • I started work on Lakeside Cougars 2, like I said! And I did manage to get the bulk of the work done…in the technical sense that 51% is technically the bulk of a given work. It’s probably a little higher, but yeah. I had very much hoped to get like 80-90% of it written, but this month was…difficult for me. And unfortunately I’m not quite out of the woods yet.

Now, let’s discuss the upcoming month, because I have some interesting news!

  • Dead Freeze 2 should go up for a short pre-order very, very soon.

  • I only managed to get pre-production on Dead Freeze 3 done, something else sort of jumped up and took all my attention away.

  • This is the thing that took away my attention and the exciting news: I’ve begun work on my first mono-romance project! I’ve been finding that I want to do it more and more as time has gone on, and although I thought I had settled on what would be my first one, this completely different idea kind of just hit me like a bullet and I just got started writing it because I felt really inspired. And I also ordered a very expensive cover for it. Here’s what I’m willing to say about it right now: It’s set in the same universe as RAW, (though to quash hopes now, it doesn’t feature any direct cameos of anyone and is completely separate from RAW). It’s intended as a stand alone project, but if it does well, I can easily write a sequel. It will be about a 40-60 split between the male and female perspectives, the male perspective being the 60%. Finally: if you like the whole ‘larger, badass woman/smaller, shy guy’ dynamic, you are are REALLY going to like this one. The very last thing I’ll say is: this will follow all the same conventions and rules of haremlit. The only difference is that there will just be one girl. So basically, if you like my other work, you should like this one just fine. Because this one is a little more uncertain, I’m going to wait until I hit the 50% mark before I start posting early access to Patreon. Ideally, I’ll be able to get this published before 2025, but it’s kind of a wildcard and I have other things to get done so…we’ll see about that.

  • Lakeside Cougars 2 should be out this month. Unless there’s some massive boost in sales, I’ve decided that I’m going to keep Lakeside Cougars a trilogy. Honestly, it’s too similar to writing Our Own Way and it’s kind of burning me out having to keep up with both of them. Although…I guess, if I’m being honest, it isn’t impossible that I could go with a fourth one. We’ll see how I feel while writing Lakeside Cougars 3.

That’s what I got for now.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | October 2024

 
 

Lakeside Cougars is FINALLY here!

  • EBOOK

  • PAPERBACK (I…still have to make it. I’ve been VERY distracted. Soon.)

  • AUDIOBOOK (Is basically confirmed.)

  • NUDE COVER ART

September was spent mainlining finishing Lakeside Cougars and then immediately diving into mainlining getting my side of the work done for Dead Freeze 2. This one is gonna be short because I’m really tired and have more DF2 to write.

  • Realistically, I doubt anything is going to come out this month, based on how things are going.

  • Right now, I’m hoping to finish up my work for Dead Freeze 2 within the next week or so, and then it’ll be passed off to Lara. November is a likely release month.

  • I intend Lakeside Cougars 2 to take up all of October. I’ll likely get the bulk of it written and, if things go smoothly, it should be out in early November. Mid-month is probably more realistic, though.

  • Sometime in late October I’ll try to start carving out some time to get started on writing DF3 and cap off the trilogy. That’ll bleed over into November, but I should have my side of the work done next month and that’ll be one more spot freed up.

  • Once Dead Freeze and Lakeside Cougars 2 are finished, I will be writing Our Own Way 5. I will also be trying to get a couple of shorts out set between OOW4 & 5. I want to experiment with some short stories from the perspective of the girls. Basically, little slice-of-life stuff. It won’t be sexual, mostly because that already bothers people enough as it is, and I don’t want to invite further complications. I also want to write a few more typical bonus shorts, so Gabe and the girls having a date night or something, and those’ll go on my Patreon, but I’ll probably initially release the alternate perspective shorts up for free for a time. Our Own Way 5 will almost certainly be the last thing I publish in 2024.

  • Last thing is that I’ll be putting Goblin Girls Do It Better - The Complete Trilogy up this month, mostly because there’s not really a reason not to. It will contain a single bonus short, set between Books I & II.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | September 2024

I’m finally back. First thing’s first…

 
 

I managed to get Goblin Girls Do It Better III out.

On the personal front, I’m basically healed up and back to normal. And that is very nice.

That being said, there were…other mental health concerns, as per usual, that slowed production. The good news is that I actually managed to get some work done on Lakeside Cougars. Right now, I’d say it’s about 2/3 done. I have to say, it’s grown. It might end up being the longest book I’ve ever written. Honestly, I’m kind of excited. And really hope this series does well. I’ve got a good idea of what’s going to happen across the trilogy, but I’m almost 80,000 words into the story and perhaps halfway to where I thought I was going to be. Slice of life is definitely a lot more freeform than adventure and offers a lot more opportunity to follow narrative side paths that occur to me. And apparently a bit more is occurring to me than I thought.

I have to say, this one feels pretty good to write. But it also is really damn uncertain. There’s a good reason no one has ever written a cougar harem before (besides the one time I tried to do it with Like A Fine Wine) and that reason is because older women do not sell in Haremlit, probably also not in Romance For Men in general. And I am committing to the main cast being women old enough to be the protagonist’s mother. Finding a balance between being true to that while also trying to keep the story appealing to the general audience has been…I’m not sure.

That’s the problem. I have no idea if I’m doing a good job or not. The people on my Patreon seem to like it, at least. But I have to do this. Besides being committed, this is a story I really want to tell, and have for years. If it isn’t obvious by now, I fucking love older women. I love cougars. I have had this love for a long time, but it was definitely solidified after a few…memorable encounters with noticeably older women.

Anyway, let’s have a looksee and what this upcoming month should expect.

  • LAKESIDE COUGARS: I fully intend to get this novel out this month. It will be going up for pre-order, and I would deeply appreciate it if you could pre-order. It’s becoming increasingly obvious to me that Amazon respects books with a high pre-order count more than the alternative, and the health of this novel is really important to me. I mean, the novel and series is, too, but a lesson I learned very painfully is that a series is only as good as its first book.

  • DEAD FREEZE 2: This is finally moving out of pre-production. I can basically guarantee that it will not come out this month, but it should be out in October. This one is less predictable because two of us are involved, but yeah, I’m going to be pushing as hard as I can on this in the background.

That’s it. Not a lot. Unfortunately, the past several months put me behind. I’m playing catchup to the catchup I was already playing when I started this year. Holy fuck, it’s September. 2024 is vanishing at an astonishing rate.

I’m not sure how the rest of the year is going to play out. The biggest conundrum is Our Own Way 5. I was really hoping to get it out this year, but at the same time, I really want to get Dead Freeze wrapped and typically speaking, you should release the first sequel to a new series as quickly as possible. What will probably happen is that I will try to burn through Dead Freeze 2/3 as quickly as possible, as well as Lakeside Cougars 1/2, and once those are out of my hands, I will take on Our Own Way 5. Hopefully this will all be achieved before 2025.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | August 2024

July was an extremely unproductive month. This time, however, I at least feel like I have more of an excuse than usual.

I had surgery.

Before we get into that though…

Despite everything, things did get released.

  • BULLETS, BLADES, AND BABES is a haremlit anthology and the second secret project I had been referencing. I have a post-post-apocalyptic slice-of-life novella within this anthology. It’s completely original, not tied to any other universes, and is called FOR THE FUTURE. In short, it’s a little peek into the life of a few people in the future who agree to become part of a breeding program after several global disasters severely thinned humanity’s numbers. I’ve wanted to write something related to breeding in a sci-fi or near-future setting for a long time now, and this is me dipping my toes into it. The entire anthology is presently 99 cents, AND it also has an audiobook version if that’s a must for you.

  • OUR OWN WAY 4 audio is here!

  • BENEATH THE ASHES 3 audio is here!

  • DEAD FREEZE is here! For those of you who don’t know, this is a survival/horror sci-fi novel I wrote with Lara X. Lust. It is the first in a planned trilogy. It’s got a bit of a harder edge, but I guess that shouldn’t be too much of a surprise if you’ve read any of my other survival oriented stories. In short, it’s set in a future where a galactic zombie apocalypse has occurred. It’s set in the same universe as DEAD DRIFT. The basic plot follows a guy coming to a frozen, zombie-infested world looking to rescue some people and in the process, gets stranded there himself, and now he has to rescue the handful of (hot lady) survivors, kill zombies, gather resources, and find some way to escape. We’re going to try to have the other two novels out before 2025, but this year has really thrown me for a loop so far.

Because I began my career with a policy of just not talking about my personal life, I don’t really want to go into any specifics about what happened in July. Basically, I had a relatively minor surgery and almost every part of it didn’t really go the way I wanted. The actual surgery itself went fine, but everything before and after just caused problems. As I entered July, I basically thought I’d be okay about my surgery, because I knew it was coming. And while I wasn’t sitting there dreading it constantly, my anxiety manifested in other ways. Namely, it became almost impossible to get anything done. Everything in my life sort of became like smoke, it just drifted out of my grasp no matter how hard I tried to hold on.

Then the actual surgery happened. While it seems to have gone the way it was supposed to, I had to get full-blown anesthetized, which I have never experienced before. While the actual experience of being anesthetized was nice (it was more or less like people describe it, you sorta nod off and then come to without any real sense that time had passed), I didn’t realize it was going to fuck with my brain. I was hazy for almost a week after, forgetting things more than normal, struggling with concepts, having trouble keeping hold of thoughts. It sucked. That has passed, thankfully. For the most part. I think.

Really, the biggest problem has been pain. It hurts to move very much, so I’m sort of just laid up. Which you’d think would be like the perfect goddamned time to get a lot of writing done, but I just…still can’t? I mean, I’ve gotten some stuff done, but I think this specific aspect is the burnout I’ve been accumulating for…literal years now making its move yet again.

Anyway, here is the good news: I am healing. Slowly, but surely. I decided early on that I’m not going to make the stupid mistake so many other people do and try to force myself to do stuff too quickly and then hurt myself and make the healing take even longer. So I’ll still be taking it easy until I’m fully healed up. I do not know when this will be, but I do intend to make a stronger effort to write more consistently.

Quick bullet point roundup.

  • GOBLIN GIRLS DO IT BETTER III is what I’m looking to work on most still. I want to get it written and out. Despite my efforts, I barely managed to get it over the halfway mark before now. I’m really truly hoping to have it out this month.

  • LAKESIDE COUGARS is going to take front and center focus the moment Goblin Girls III is done. I’m going to genuinely try to have it done this month, but I also genuinely do not see it happening. I’m honestly fucking pissed about it because it’s a ‘summer fun’ novel and I wanted to get it out for summer but that’s basically off the table and I’m unwilling to wait an entire other year just to get it out next summer. Anyway, I’m going to try very, very hard to have it out before the end of September.

  • DEAD FREEZE 2 is still in pre-production, unfortunately. I’ll be working on it where I can find the time.

I hope things are going well for everyone. Wish me luck.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | July 2024

Okay, I’m back!

I feel a bit less insane now that I had my break. Time for updates!

 
 

Those are the bullet points.

Some things happened in June. Got my laptop fixed. Cleaned my house. Got checked out by my doctor and learned that my health problems are very likely stress-related, which is a mixed bag result. I’m still having some problems, but they sure calmed down a lot. I’m hoping that as I get back into a saner rhythm, they’ll disappear completely.

I did actually write a little bit while I was ‘on vacation’. I had the notion of writing basically a short story of an encounter between a guy and a somewhat older woman in a contemporary setting and releasing it for free as a mono-romance short. I got through most of it but ended up not finishing it because I ultimately figured no one would actually be interested in it, so now it’s just kinda sitting on my harddrive.

Right now, with Beneath the Ashes wrapped up, the current plan is to hit Goblin Girls III hard until it’s done, while working on Lakeside Cougars in the background. Once Goblin Girls is finished, Lakeside Cougars is the one that’s going to get hit hard until it’s finished. In the farther background, I’m beginning what could be called pre-production on Dead Freeze 2 with Lara.

The plan beyond that?

Now that I’ve had a little time to sort of reorganize my thoughts, this is what I’ve got:

  • The plan largely depends on how Lakeside Cougars does. If it does like really well, I might have to rearrange some things. But I genuinely don’t see that happening. Well, probably. The problem is this book is something of a wildcard. I’m definitely going against the grain by writing something specifically about cougars and only cougars. That being said, the only thing that changes is how many novels it’ll get and how furiously I’ll work on it. Regardless, once Goblin Girls is done, it’ll take front and center, and what will likely happen is I’ll make it my primary focus until the trilogy is done.

  • Dead Freeze is something I’ll be working on in the background until it’s done as well. Got it slotted for a trilogy and, if all goes according to plan, all three novels will be out in 2024. That being said, do not hold me to that, because individually, both Lara and I are rather unpredictable, and that only gets worse if we’re together.

  • Our Own Way will be mostly what takes up the rest of my time. I have a minimum of two more novels planned. I’ll need to see how I feel and where I’m at, narratively speaking, at the end of Our Own Way 5 to see if there needs to be another beyond 6. That being said, I do intend to get a couple of bonus shorts written and up to my Patreon at some point over the next few months.

  • After all that? Well, once Lakeside Cougars and Dead Freeze are both safely written and squared away, and at least one more Our Own Way novel has been written in 2024, I intend to sit down and go hard with Shelter From the Storm. I have definitely learned my lesson: don’t start side projects with the intent to come back and work on them piecemeal. That…does not work for me. Unfortunately, as I’ve mentioned earlier, enough time has passed that I can’t just pick back up the story. I need to actually sit down, read over what I’ve written, flesh out my plans a little more, and then start tackling it regularly. So the good news there is that I definitely do not want to abandon this story, I want to keep it going, even if it’s going to be the riskiest thing I’ve ever written, given how depressing it is.

I had hoped to tackle more before 2025, but it’s looking like that just isn’t going to happen.

Oh well, on to Goblin Girls.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | June 2024

This one will be short.

May was not kind to me, but now for completely different reasons. In short, my primary laptop broke and I’m dealing with getting it repaired, and I’ve been running into some new medical problems that are concerning and distracting, and I’m also trying to figure out how to deal with them.

As expected, this really fucked things up for me. Especially because it’s becoming increasingly obvious that I need to take an actual break, because I am burned out, but I keep having shit I have to get done, so instead of putting my nose to the grindstone and grinding it out, I’m trying to do that, but having to stop very frequently because I’m fucking exhausted.

Anyway, enough complaining. I’ll give you a quick bullet point list of what’s up.

  • BENEATH THE ASHES 3: It’s posting to my Patreon right now. I’m basically on the home stretch. I’m going to have it wrapped up in the next week or so, and then it’ll probably take another week or less to actually get published.

  • DEAD FREEZE: This is the main top secret project. It is the first novel in a new trilogy, coauthored by Lara X. Lust. I’ve done my work and now Lara’s doing hers. The novel is being posted to Lara’s Patreon right now. We believe it will be out this month, but it’s still cooking at the moment. It takes place in the same universe as Dead Drift. It’s Action/Sci-Fi/Horror. Basically base-building and survival in a galaxy long since overrun by zombie monsters.

  • LAKESIDE COUGARS: This one is still cooking, but I seriously fumbled it in May. I intend to make some more meaningful progress before I pick up Goblin Girls III.

  • GOBLIN GIRLS DO IT BETTER III: Gonna try and get this written and out by July.

  • SECRET PROJECT: The other secret project I’m involved in seems to be shaping up for a release before too long. Again, can’t say anything more than that, but I’ll definitely let you all know the moment I can.

  • OUR OWN WAY 4 PAPERBACK: If you’re still waiting on this, it is coming, I’m still waiting on my main laptop be fixed first.

And that’s it. Uh, wish me luck with my problems.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | May 2024

So, first the good news. I have some things that got released!

 
 

OUR OWN WAY 4

RAW - THE COMPLETE SERIES AUDIOBOOK

GOBLIN GIRLS DO IT BETTER II AUDIOBOOK

BENEATH THE ASHES 2 AUDIOBOOK (May 6th)

Also, I am officially teasing one of my two secret projects.

Yep. This is happening again, and this time I’m actually going to put my name on it. I don’t really want to say much, as it’s more of a Lara thing than a me thing, and she’s the one in control. What I can say is that there’s a good chance we’ll get more information either this month or next month. If you are paying particularly close attention, there is a detail in this picture that could give some insight as to what it’s going to be. But yes, all I can say for now is that we are collaborating, it is haremlit, and it should be out sometime in the summer. But given the whimsy of life that is subject to change.

Okay, now we talk about the bad news.

I definitely overworked myself. At the beginning of the year I was looking at a mountain of novels to get written and so I set a really brutal pace, essentially trying to work on three or sometimes four books at the same time. And it…has not worked out. Obviously.

I had a really bad time during the end of April and had to kind of just fuck off and get my shit back together. I’m still kind of doing that right now. It’s pretty obvious to me that I’m burned out, but I can’t really relax, I’ve got too much to do. That being said, I am going to tone things down a little bit and only work on two novels simultaneously instead of three or four. Consequently, this has caused me to reassess my plan. Part of the problem is that unfinished series can really bother me. I should’ve learned my lesson from the last time this happened with Monster Girl Inn, and I suppose I did learn my lesson, because this time I didn’t really choose this situation, my hand was sort of forced.

Whatever. Anyway, here is a bullet point list of information that should sum things up nicely.

  • BENEATH THE ASHES 3: This is my main focus. This one will likely have a June release. I am intending to begin posting chapters for it to my Patreon on May 13th. BTA2 audio is set for May 6th. Based on the data presented so far, I’d say you should expect BTA3’s audio sometime in August, but audiobook producing is very potentially chaotic, so don’t quote me on that. After that, it’ll be done. Sometime in the future, at Royal Guard’s discretion, The Complete Trilogy for eBook and audio will drop. It will have no bonus content, as I opted not to write any. And that’ll be it for Beneath the Ashes.

  • LAKESIDE COUGARS: So, this is Project #2 I’ll be working on alongside BTA3. I unfortunately had to basically bail on it for most of April, so I’m nowhere near where I should be. Unfortunately, this means I will definitely not make the June 1st release date. I’m going to go ahead and just push it back to July 1st. I will probably make it, but this is exactly the reason I have always hated trying to put release dates to things. I’m just too unreliable thanks to my mental health problems and complete lack of motivation. And I won’t be able to make it first priority until I deal with Goblin Girls Do It Better.

  • GOBLIN GIRLS DO IT BETTER: So it’s become clear to me that I need to prioritize wrapping up this as well as Beneath the Ashes. As soon as BTA3 is done, I’m going to get right to work on Goblin Girls III. I’ve got an idea of how I want this to go and it’ll be a nice way to cap off the trilogy. If I’m really lucky, I can get it out in June, but there’s a decent chance it’ll be July. Then it’ll be done. Once Goblin Girls is done, I will shift my focus to Lakeside Cougars.

  • OUR OWN WAY: So, the good news is that I’m now positive there will be a book six for this series, and more books are on the table. The most recent launch went well (it managed to crack the Top 1000 for a little bit and hit #1 Bestseller status in Men’s Adventure, always nice), and I’m getting the impression that Our Own Way is a series with some longevity, financially speaking. I’m always reluctant to start going on about business and finances, because it always has such a sour taste and I know people get grumpy when an author abandons a series due to poor sales, which is understandable. But Our Own Way is earning pretty solidly. My impression is that it’s a slower burn earner, in that it earns less on a week-to-week basis, but earns more consistently, which is kind of a big deal. All in all, this boils down to good news if you like the series! At minimum there will be two more books. Also, at some point in the not too distant future, I’m going to write at least one bonus short set between Our Own Way 4 & 5, probably two, maybe even three. The final thing I want to say is that unfortunately, it’ll be a while before OOW5 comes out. I was very distracted while writing OOW4 and it was not a good experience, so I want to be in a better, clearer space before I tackle it.

  • SECRET PROJECT #1: This is the smaller one. I’ve done my part for it, but I’m just a small part of the overall project. Still can’t talk about it and so far I haven’t heard very much about the behind the scenes besides the fact that they’re still putting it together. Regardless, it’s out of my hands and I’ll make a big announcement about it whenever I get the green light to do so. I can’t imagine it’ll be more than a month or two longer, but that is very much a guess with only a bit of insight. I am very much not at the helm of this, I just showed up, did my job, and fucked off.

  • SECRET PROJECT #2: So this is my collab with Lara X. Lust. I would say it’s the biggest project we’ve done together. As of now, I have more or less completed my contributions to the project, and it is now in Lara’s hands. I would say she is at the helm of this one, I’m just assisting. I’m not sure when it will come out and as I said above, I’m reluctant to say very much, since she’s the one who will be making all the decisions and I don’t want to speak for her. Naturally, I’ll talk about it more when I can. I’m thinking people will enjoy it a lot.

And I think that’s everything. I’m going to go try and clear my head before firing things back up next Monday.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | April 2024

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.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | March 2024

This update won’t be too long because February didn’t go very well and I’ve been drowning in responsibility.

 
 

Beneath the Ashes 2 and Our Own Way 3 Audio were officially released in February.

I came very close to having Goblin Girls Do It Better II out, but unfortunately February was kind of a train wreck. Lots of little things kept distracting or derailing me from getting my job done and honestly I’m behind on everything. This is exactly why I didn’t get around to Shelter From the Storm even a tiny bit. I don’t even think I opened up the document one time for the whole month. It’s becoming obvious that starting it was a mistake. I really want to get work done on it but basically this is how I function as a writer:

Ensure that MAIN PROJECT, whatever that might be, gets X amount of words written per day. If that happens, then work on SECONDARY PROJECT, whatever that might be, can happen. What fucks me up so much and derails me so often is that I can’t get that first part done. And if I can’t get that first part done, then my brain feels like there’s literally no point in moving onto anything else.

If I’m working on Goblin Girls Do It Better II and I don’t hit my chosen word count before going to bed, then nothing else gets done that day, because why would I work on something else when I SHOULD be working on Goblin Girls Do It Better II?

I’ve heard several suggestions and tried several things, but ultimately this is simply how I work. I know I have something wrong with me, probably something related to OCD or ADHD. Honestly, I’d probably get more done if I did Goblin Girls on one day and then another project on the next day and back-and-forth it, but I just…can’t? I don’t know, I just can’t. I have to keep momentum going on a project. I thought maybe I could do something more casually, hence Shelter From the Storm, but that just doesn’t seem to be a thing.

It’s kind of killing me.

All that being said, I am going to try very hard AGAIN to get my shit together this month and produce more and produce quickly. I’m honestly glad I’m in my 30s still because this shit is going to stress me into a heart attack if it’s still like this in my 50s.

Anyway, the month ahead:

  • GOBLIN GIRLS DO IT BETTER II will be out very soon.

  • BENEATH THE ASHES 2 audio is being worked on, no idea when it’ll be out though.

  • OUR OWN WAY 4 will be the main writing focus for this month. It should be out sometime in April.

  • UNTITLED COUGAR HAREM will get a proper reveal this month. I’ll write a blog post about it, reveal the title, and begin posting early access to my Patreon.