Patreon Update 1-23-26 (Patreon)

First off, I almost put 2025 in the title. Am I the only one that's still struggling with this almost a month into the new year?

Anywho, I hope you all enjoyed Ard. I might go back and add something small for Selina and Melida/Brusset probably could use a cameo at the end. I feel like Beth got some time at the beginning of the book that was meant to close that one and idk if I care much about Zenovia's rule.

Ard's been a wonderful series and I very much enjoyed writing him. We'll get another witty character at some point.

However we are pivoting to #space next. As patreon has voted it shall be named 'Escaping Gravity', a great name.

I'm like 40k words into the book(1/3rd of a book) at this point with my rough drafts and they are ROUGH. There are a number of placeholders I left behind when I was like 'and the ship goes to warp, we'll figure out the logistics and actual name later'. That and I'm certain I was inconsistent with a few names that'll need to be shored up.

The first Arc is done, then there's a little fluff and I'm in the second arc now.

Interestingly, while there are several alien races that have appeared with special traits that make them superb in one area or another, our MC currently has 0 powers. He's all brain and just a good helping of determination. He might get some upgrades, at least one to his stamina to keep up with the harem at one point.

The Video AMA has been kicked back a little, I was stupid sick last week and then I'm probably not going to ask Chris to drive in the tail end of the winter storm, so mid next week we'll record it and Chris will work on the video. I won't make promises for him.

Everything else is chugging along, I'm fairly happy with my writing speed, though I always wish I could write more. This year my 2 main goals are to add more value to Patreon, you are all very important to me and I need to do a better job at giving you things. The second is to focus on writing more.

10 books is the goal, which means less breaks and means I need to fire on all cylinders when it comes to writing and more importantly the editing, which is far harder for me to do for extended periods of time.

Everything else is flowing, I've fallen into the cadence of releasing the audiobook for the prior book with the next ebook. One of these days I'll get 4-5 months ahead on writing to fix that. (HAHA no I won't. Can you imagine me getting 4 months ahead let alone 1 month on writing?!)

Though I can dream of simultaneous releases, even if I'd probably have to slow down my ebook releases to realistically get there.

Webcomics are still pumping, there was a change on the Webtoons platform where they basically deprioritized new comics, which has led to an almost rioting from studios. Webtoons has committed to reverting these changes in May, so my own releases will be on hold at least until then. Which is then going to compact the release schedule because everyone is holding out for this to revert.

We're at 8 of 15 needed finished chapters to launch for both DD and RD. Ard's Oath is still in scripting.

Otherwise, pushing the rest of the projects aside to keep on writing.

Oh and people keep asking, the in-universe logs I'm doing for the space series races, I think those will stay with Patreon for now. Perhaps in a kickstarter or something I could buff them and put them into something like that. I don't think those are going into the books.

Two artists have started on art for the series. Hopefully I have something for you in 2ish weeks.

Escaping Gravity book 1 will start on Monday morning.