TL;DR VERSION: Our Own Way 4 and A Warm Place 8 came out last month. Our Own Way 5 and Raw should be out this month. Lust & Adventure is getting an epilogue at some point soon, and all the freebies are getting another sequel each and being republished as cheap collections.
So I published a few things last month.
OUR OWN WAY 4
A WARM PLACE 8
I was hoping to have more done on the Our Own Way front, and I did get it about 1/3 written, but between Raw and other stuff, it just didn’t happen.
October wasn’t as tough as September, but it was tough.
I’m not sure what it is, but I think I may be more burned out than I realized. I’m beginning to worry something might be physically wrong, but that’s a problem for behind the scenes.
I’ve been taking inventory of…well just about everything. Anyone paying attention to my backlog (probably no one lol) might notice a few minor tweaks at this point. I’m slowly updating them again partially for the sake of consistency, but mostly because it occurred to me that I do have to be careful in balancing maximizing my career, but also ensuring that I keep my fanbase in mind, (and also my sanity). It’s a difficult process and sometimes I don’t even realize that it’s gotten out of balance for awhile. And things seem to be changing faster than ever before, and that’s been consistent for the past several months, so at this point I’m just rolling with the punches as best I can.
So there’s a lot of stuff cooking behind the scenes now, is what I’m trying to say. I made some decisions based on making my fans happy.
I don’t really want to go over, like, everything, until we hit 2022 and I have my yearly address. Both because I’d just like to wait to make a comprehensive update on all things related to my writing until it makes sense, and also because more time to make things happen would be nice. Not everything I’m doing relies on myself at this point.
But here’s what’s on the horizon.
I’m really, really aiming to get the first novel in Raw finished and out before the end of November. However, I am also taking a bit more time on it, both for my sanity and also because I’m in new territory, so I’m less sure of myself. I’ve never done caveman fantasy before, and although I’ve been thinking about it for a few years now, I’m finding that it’s a bit different than what I expected now that I’m actually doing it.
I’m also going to get Our Own Way 5 out this month. But I’m going to pump the breaks a bit on that series because I have a few other minor projects that I want to take care of and get written. Which I will talk about below.
Once the first Raw novel is finished, I’m going to go right into A Warm Place 9. I have a solid idea of what I want to do. I’m not sure if I can manage it, but I am going to try very hard to get it written and out before 2022. I’ve got the cover for it at least.
The little projects. So ever since I went ahead and wrote sequels to all my five free shorts, the notion to make them into trilogies has been nagging at me. For reasons that I’ll get into during the 2022 address, I’ve decided to take them down, all 10 of the stories, and instead replace them with Complete Trilogies. They will be 99c and enrolled in the KU. If you’re looking for a quick explanation now: it no longer quite makes sense to have these free shorts up, but I also don’t want to just abandon the fans who enjoy these. So instead of just taking them down and retiring them, I figured I’d instead reward people with a third story for each of them and seal each together in complete packages. I’m hoping to get them written and out before the end of the year, but we’ll see how that goes.
If, by some miracle, I find extra time, another loose thread that I really want to tie up is Lust & Adventure. [SPOILERS] So L&A has been a thorn in my side for years now. It ends on a very bittersweet note, and the entire reason I did it was because I thought people were getting sick of the same happy ending. I didn’t realize I was wrong. A lot of people told me how unhappy the ending made them. I considered several options. The first was to just delete the trilogy, but that’s an entire trilogy of novels I wrote, I don’t want to just get rid of them. The second is to ret-con the ending, but that seems somehow wrong. Ultimately I decided on fixing it via Demoness, which I began doing in Demoness V, and it would have been wrapped up in Demoness VI. But now Demoness is getting rebooted [SPOILERS]. So my solution to this whole thing is to write an epilogue to the trilogy. It doesn’t ret-con the ending so much as have another ending further along. Although I felt justified in writing it originally, I’ve since come to regret it. Ultimately, I just want to write about people being happy. So I’ll be writing that sometime soon too.
There’s other, bigger things I’ve decided on, but again, later.
For now, back to writing.