Fall updates (Patreon)

Hey gang,

So ignoring hiatuses, the goal in general for my channel is to release at least one fully produced video per month. Obviously that has not been the case of late, and I figured I at least owed it to people an explanation of what's going on behind the scenes, since at the face the answer appears to be "nothing" when in fact it's "lots."

So the first ~ exclusive ~ that hasn't been announced publicly is It's Lit! is coming back to PBS Digital Studios in 2020, and this time for a lot more episodes! This will present some challenges with regard to my main channel and keeping that more or less on track for regular uploads, but I have a good team and for this round, we're also bringing on Princess Weekes (who by day is assistant editor at The Mary Sue) to be co-writer and co-host, in addition to some of the writing work she's being doing for my channel. We're also producing a mini-series for The Financial Diet on the subject of money and movies/film - look for that on their YouTube channel in early 2020.

But the biggest thing for me that I uh... forgot to announce here (sorry) you probably already know if you follow me on Twitter is that my debut novel that I've been working on for years in ~secret~, Axiom's End, is being published by St. Martins Press in July, 2020, it's got aliens in it (pre-order link here:  http://bit.ly/AxiomsEnd ) So while this book is more or less in the can (I'm at the copy edit stage right now, which, woof) thing is I pitched these jerks at St Martins a series, and this is only book one, so if you see me tweeting about neologisms and writing a thing that takes place in 2008, this is that. Hoofing it to get that first draft written as quickly as possible has been a big chunk of how I've been spending my last two months. And it hasn't even been announced yet and likely won't be until.... early 2020! I'm extremely burned out! 

Anyway, the next video I release (for my main channel) will be about that and the unholy hell involved in pursuing a career in traditional publishing (hope ya like rejection), and I'll have some semi-gratuitous Phantom of the Opera-related content after that. I don't know how realistic it will be to keep to the schedule of a fully produced essay per month next year, but we'll do the best we can.

Thank you all for your support and for generally being cool dudes,

Lindsay