What happened to Somber? (Patreon)

Hi folks.  It's been a crappy April.  Right up there with a crappy 2017.  For the last 4 years, someone's been using my SSN to claim dependents when they file their taxes.  Every year I have to go in to the IRS office and file my taxes in person.  This year I couldn't get into the office by the 18th.  My mom also had hip replacement surgery and I've been taking care of her.  I go so down that I went back on antidepressants.  This time it's something new: Citalopram.  So far I've been trying to juggle it and write.

Thanks to the Herculean efforts of Erin / Heartshine, I've been writing.  I need someone effectively to poke me with a stick and keep me focused and she's been doing that in spades.  I'm going to be finishing chapter 13 of Homelands this weekend with a final editing.  Also, I should mention that I've been co-writing with Erin on her FoE story Speak.  It's a sequel with Blackjack travelling around the wasteland with a filly while trying to come to terms with everything that happened to her in Horizons.  At first, I just went 'yeah, that's IC for Blackjack.  Nope, she wouldn't say that' and now we're effectively writing all their scenes together.

Sorry that it's taken me so long to get news to you folks, especially when I depend so much on all of you.  If you're in Washington on the 12-14th, I'll be at EFNW.  Heartshine's managed to get me on a few panels, so I'll be pretty active talking about writing and stuff.  Hopefully my stupid pills won't make me just sit there and drool.

Bronycon's... a lot harder to get to.  I was able to go only because of a hugely generous donation by a reader and the incredible hospitality of WandererD.

Anyway, New Story on saturday.