Chimerical Update, September 6th!
It’s September and as usual I have no idea how that happened. So much stuff happening! Let me tell you all about it!
FireBorn’s Legacy is now out on retailers! So if you were waiting on that because you prefer to buy that way, you can go get it (https://books2read.com/qora). It already has a rating! I am so delighted. The Kickstarter’s about one-third done: I’ve got paperbacks and a new hardcover proof heading to me next week, probably. I am trying to sit on my excitement about being able to ship all the things, but I love shipping all the things…!
If you didn’t participate in the Kickstarter and you want a copy of the stretch goal novella about Bryer meeting the bird of his dreams, it’s up on the store (https://studiomcah.com/products/harriers-choice). Or you can wait—in about a year, it will probably end up in a collection. But the ebook version of the novella has lots of Phoenix art, so if you’re into that, pick it up.
In the bedlam of the Kickstarter ending, the gamelit serial went on unplanned hiatus. Don’t worry, we will return to Nick and Amanda and Galatea! I have an outline for their story so I know where we’ve stopped and where we’re going next. I should probably do up a cover for their book, in fact, because once I get back to it, it’s going to happen fast. But the other reason I’ve stopped is…
…because I am about 25% done with Surela 2. (For reference, we were 16% done at the beginning of the week). That one’s writing itself and I don’t want to get in its way! For now, all my writing energy is getting dumped into that, and I have to fight pretty hard for writing energy because it is both ragweed-and-storm season here, and I feel like the days I don’t have a headache outnumber the ones I do by about 5 to 1. I wish I could flee to some less tempestuous climate for the summer, but we make do.
There’s so much going on with my website stuff that I don’t even know where to start… I’ll summarize by saying I’ve converted my mcahogarth.org site into a linktree (which I hope to pretty up with a graphic next week), and moved its most useful content over to the store. I have a lot of thoughts about how internet/technology/AI culture is changing (again) in regards to online presences, and I can talk through that in a separate entry for people who want to hear it. But the short of it is that if I’m selling something through my website, it should look like a store. If I’m not, I don’t want it to look like it came out of a marketing department.
My store now has excerpts for every book, and there’s now a review system in place! So if you want to leave a review, that’s where I hope it goes (even if it’s cut-and-pasted from Amazon).
I’m also gearing up to sell at my localcon, as a test of my new card reader/store, so if you’re going to be in the area for NecronomiCon, come by and say hi.
There’s a lot going on in my head about changes (relating to that website stuff, among other things), but I think that deserves a separate business post, written when my head isn’t throbbing in time with the developing thunderheads. So you’ll get that as soon as I can think straight. XD
And that’s everything for now. Tell me what’s on your mind!
