Update (Patreon)

So Nano is over. I did make the win (whoo hoo for me!), but I'm exhausted and Aberrant Magic 7 is a bit of a... um... disaster zone.  I have further sections written, but I was heavily relying on the microphone. That means I have so much cleaning up that it's not funny. On the good side, I have the general plot down once I sit down and work on filling in the holes.

My cover artist isn't available until February, so I'm going to give myself some time off and go back to other projects.  This month, my goal is to finish any two of my three ongoing projects.

1. Earth Fathers are Weird.  This is the farthest from being complete but Max is really talking to me, and complaining that I left him sitting in the ductwork so long.

2. The Claimings short story set centered around Haru, the Japanese-American officer dealing with a suddenly tall Liam  or 

3. The Witness Wore a Puppy Tail.  I'm thinking I'm going to move this from the $10 level to the $3 one as I do a little restructuring on the Patreon this December.  Having stories at two different levels is awkward, but I"m thinking about how to handle that.

The money on Claimings 4 is doing well and I think I may do a collection of short stories.  I don't know how an audience would react, but the love for this universe seems strong, so I may give it a try.  I also want to work on Maya next year.  The world needs some asexual love stories, and she sees the universe they share so much clearer than Liam. He was always disengaged from the politics of the civil war.

Aberrant Magic 6 did not do as well financially.  After about three weeks, the bottom dropped out of the sales.  I still plan on publishing 7 and 8, but I may need to ask the group to help with edits and find a discount editor for the final polish.  

Do I have other story ideas?  Oh yeah.  A YA book about a recently dead football player trying to figure out how he got recently dead, a story from late in the Hercules series where light starts to bleed into the darkness, and a story featuring mermen... or something that passes at them. We'll see if the muse lands on any of those later, but right now I want to finish up some work and just enjoy writing.  The Nano challenge got me off my ass and writing fast, but I can't say I enjoyed it.  I don't know if it's the age or the arthritis, but speed writing is not as fun as it used to be.