February 3 Update (Patreon)

Marketing lead to reading industry articles and even having some direct conversations with publishing professionals. It was all very informative and I'm really glad for some of the contacts, but the executive summary is "The publishing industry is depressing."

I got a chance to exchange some private messages with a fantasy genre veteran (who was very generous to give me some of his time), and he seriously challenged whether some of my plans are viable. I learned some pitfalls to avoid, and it's better to know than to not know, but I'm going to have to seriously reconsider some things. Will probably make a post about this in time.

In the short term, I'll just focus on several stories that I think are interesting and worth writing. New Game Minus is intended as quick fun, but I hope to make it an enjoyable trilogy. I have something else coming that I think will be an interesting change of pace. And of course I'm grateful to have so many of you caring about TLS, which is a story I really want to tell. That's an experience many authors would kill for.

On a lighter note, we have another picture courtesy of Retromancer via artist EvilEirs! This one is just a fun alternate universe sort of take on familiar characters, so don't draw any conclusions about clothing/schools in TLS. XP You can consider it canon that succubi would be big fans of sexy schoolgirl outfits, though!