Potentially Major Disaster (Patreon)

The laptop I use for all my writing has stopped in the middle of a routine update and will not reboot. The laptop is currently with my dad, who programs and fixes computers for a living. He’s not optimistic about recovering the contents of the hard drive, but he’s going to try.

Now, my back-up habits are sloppy and sporadic. Among the items NOT backed up to my Google Drive: Gunpowder Magnolia chapters 8 & 9, Sazuma chapter 7, the second half of my Blood Over Bright Haven manuscript, and a lot of unannounced projects I’m trying not to think about right now. Basically, everything I’ve been working on these past two months.

If the contents of the laptop can be recovered in the next two days, I might be able to stay on schedule with the usual Patreon chapters. After that, I‘ll be traveling a lot throughout the rest of November, so we’ll see… Assuming those several tens of thousands of words of work can’t be recovered at all, I’m confident that I can reproduce them. But like… obviously, that’s going to take a while.

So, while I try not to freak out, this is your heads-up that chapters may be running late this month and into December. 100% my fault for being so lax about the way I back things up—despite the fact that this is not the first time this has happened to me.

Apologies for the probable delays!