Rewards Sent and January Update (2021) (Patreon)

Hi all!

Okay, so some important updates in this one, but first the following:

Rewards

1. Rewards have been sent

2. What are rewards? These 

3. The process isn't automated. Mistakes were made. If you did not get a reward letter, you must comment below. It doesn't hurt my feelings, and I can literally check your rewards by hovering over your name and then message you. Please don't message me, the inbox here is a disaster zone.

Okay, next up:

Updates

For you new people (welcome, by the way), the updates is as close to a blog as you're gonna get from me, so these are great to read if you care about what's coming up. 

First, thanks again to everyone for your patronage last year. I only got the one chapter out last month, and because I've been saving my quarters, it didn't hit my bank account nearly as hard when I was unable to get a second chapter written. I'm not suffering for cash, but a couple of months like that will delay funding for future projects (audiobook, etc).

So here is where we are on writing status. I am struggling right now to find the time to do it. Without going into detail, it is Covid related (none of the Hawthornes are sick, don't worry), but until life gets back to whatever passes for normal, I am literally writing whenever I get more than a couple free minutes, which isn't often. Unfortunately, this isn't an issue that can be fixed with higher pledges (like reaching my full time writer goal), so this is a significant stressor on top of everything else going on. 

So what I am saying here is that I'm going to keep doing my best. I am closing in on being finished with Chapter 62's rough draft, and I think some of you are going to be extremely pleased with a couple of the characters who will star in this chapter, because it means they will feature throughout the book (like Dana, Beth and Kisa did last book).

Last of Her Kind is officially releasing in a week (Jan 19th). The preorder for the ebook can be found here. It will be available in paperback and potentially hardcover (if I get my shit together). It will also be available as an ebook through B&N (etc), it just may take some extra time to propagate to those websites.

As for this month's artwork, I chose a character that has no real artwork because I need her for the inevitable trailer of Labyrinth's audiobook. I am also going to have Kat start doing work on art for the special edition of Book 3.

Book 3 initial edits got to me yesterday. Lyss (the editor), apparently loves the story and is sufficiently devastated by the Yuki/Emily storyline.  These are developmental edits, so round 1 of 3. With my wrecked schedule, I'm not sure when I can attend to this, but it will eventually happen.

I've even toyed with *shudder* waking up early in the morning to get stuff done. Most of my work (like this letter) is being done when I am supposed to be going to sleep. Ah, the life of a writer.

On a completely random side-note, I did get a chance to communicate with the CEO of Patreon the other day. That was supposed to be an hour of writing, but I got an email that said "Hey creators, drop by the Creator discord and give me your ideas" and I dropped in before everyone else could and hit him with a bunch. He even put together a little newsletter of ideas that they liked and I'm on almost every page (stuff like an 18+ community, automated rewards system, etc). 

So that's where we are, monster-lovers. I'm off to go write about [redacted] and how she [redacted] and [redacted]. Hope to have exciting news for you in the near future!