Reporting from Hermosa Beach! (Patreon)

I’m writing this from a hotel in Hermosa Beach, California. I spent the morning skateboarding down the strand, reading on the pier and having lunch at one of my favorite breakfast spots. Even though I loath coming to LA to deliver books to my distributor, I still do enjoy Hermosa Beach, mostly because I used to live here in a little old beach house with my best friends. This little town is full of good memories from my twenties of surfing, skateboarding and playing guitar.  It’s hard to believe that I was a local here.  And I must still look like a local because I was asked for directions today. :)

Hermosa isn‘t known as a tourist spot compared to Venice Beach or Santa Monica. Maybe that‘s why I like it better. Or maybe it’s just because of my memories of this place that still seems to capture the feeling that it had 20 years ago - A small surfer town stuck in the city.

I think this will be my home base every time I am forced to come to LA. I can live with that.

So yeah, I’m delivering the last batch of my books to my distributor on Monday. I brought enough stock to give them 200 of each title. Once they sell out of reMIND and Sithrah, they will be completely sold out online. The rest of my stack will be given away or sold at a discount bulk price.

So again, if you want to come to my place and load up a car or truck with reMIND and Sithrah books then this might be the last time I offer. They will probably be all gone within a month now. 

What is my plan for books now?

I’m glad you asked. I’m actually pretty excited about getting rid of all my old stock of books because it means that I can focus on new IP’s for a while. Then when the time is right I can launch a new Kickstarter to make Omnibuses of reMIND and Sithrah. Or maybe I just let them remain sold out for several years. Who knows. Maybe the right publisher will approach me about reprinting them. All I know is I’m at a completely different place in life than where I was when printing these books. I’m actually getting excited about the change now. I’m excited about downsizing the amount of storage space I need. I‘m excited about having a fresh start on new projects next year. 

I’m also very curious what will happen with the reMIND NFT’s that were announced in that YouTube video that I posted last week. I have no expectation or even a clue what will happen in that space but it’s fun to be a part of something brand new like that.

Well, I better head out to The Kettle in Manhattan Beach so I can have some Oeufs Pain Perdu! (Another one of my favorite’s)

To those of you in the Comics Classroom, I’ll be back home on Tuesday and I’ll start working on your critique videos at that time. 

Thanks for being my patrons! See you when I get back to reality!

Jason