May Update (Patreon)

It's that time again--time for your author update. Some stats first:

April Words Written:  56k (+10k SKB2, 35k total +46.7k BSB6, 81.2k total)

It's been a busy month for me, preparing my house for sale my job situation ended. I had a mostly-productive month with how many words I got completed. Overall, I'm mostly happy I've managed to maintain my output despite my home situation. I know a lot of authors have told me that when they quit their job, their output got worse. This didn't happen for me, though I didn't gain productivity either. This was a mostly average month for me if you check previous updates.

As of right now I am writing Chapter 19 for Bs6, and for those who are keeping up with my updates, I have paused writing on SK2 until BS6 is done. I want to get this done within the next month, so I can focus on SK2 next. My goal is 120k words for Bs6 and for SK2, so I think I can do an early June release for BS6, and a late July release for SK2. We'll see!

In audiobook news, I know BS5 is finished recording and in the proofing stage. At 27 hours of audio, this can take some time. Imagine if it were someone's sole job just to listen to the thing for errors--it would take more than three full 8 hour days to go through it, and supply corrections, etc! And as far as I know, most proofers do other stuff, and it's just a side gig (same with most narrators, even the good ones). After corrections, it should be submitted for preorder, and that takes as long as audible takes -- usually a week or two. I Hope sooner, but the release date might not be until the end of May.

I know Alyssa Poon and Evan Jordan have begun recording Soul Knight Book 1, but other than that I have no news on pace. It could be done in 1 week or 2 months for all I know. It all depends on her speed. Judging by how much time there is between releases for her, I think we got ~1 month before we're in a similar stage as BS5 is.

And that's all I have for you right now. For those of you that like AI transmigrator, I've been letting it percolate in the back of my mind for how I wanna move forward with it. The 20k+ remaining words I've worked on can be partially salvaged, but I know I'm going to erase at least half of them. I will probably give it a serious runthrough when I feel particularly inspired, but still my focus is mainly on BS6/SK2 for now. I'm still trying to find a sort of working schedule for me that fits and matches the amazon algorithm, but also tries to keep you guys in a good place. I feel like I just need to up my productivity and everything should just fall into place.

Until next time, and once again, thanks for being patrons/followers! I appreciate you all.