Patreon Update 9-9-24

Hello everyone, I am back with Returners Defiance 2. Also, the audiobook for Returners Defiance 1 is released today.

Patreon Chapters will restart tomorrow for Dungeon Diving 203. I haven't written the first one yet, but we'll get it done today.

Thanks for Patreon's help in pointing out a few small details. I think I caught everything can got them fixed. I cut everything a little tight with this release, probably a poor idea with DragonCon here at the end.

What else is going on? Next month, I won't be releasing an ebook, but I do have an audiobook coming out. It will be the last audiobook from Rozelyn and Louis for Dungeon Diving 101. After this, the next book in the Dungeon Diving series will be recorded by Jessica Threet and Christopher Boucher. At the same time, I will switch over everything that's currently on Audible to also be by Threet and Boucher. You won't have to repurchase anything, you'll just have to re-download. The old versions of Rozelyn and Louis, I probably won't be able to sell them to you contractually, so I apologize to those who love that audio.

We've had this discussion a few times. Rozelyn and Louis were generating a large number of complaints, and I had to delete several conversations from my Facebook group. When I put it up to a vote, the result was crystal clear. The request was for me to move away from Rozelyn and Louis and to re-record 'Dungeon Diving 101'.

I'm continuing my writing rotation, which means 'Dungeon Diving 203' will be the next book that I write.

The Kickstarter content is now complete, which means we have to do printing, preparation, some proofing, and then we can actually do the print run. Our current estimate is to get them in your hands by early January. We aim to have them shipped before the end of the year. It's a really long process. Even the big five publishing houses are printing in China because that's where all the presses are now. So, shipping for everything takes a long time.

The webcomic is coming along. We have enough chapters done to release, and our pilot is complete. We experimented with some colorists last month. Currently, the colorists are not starting. We had selected one, thinking I was going to prepare for a launch in September or October, and had started them, only to discover that my launch date is now pushed back to 2025. They were kind of a 'good enough' level but I want to try and get better. I can't stop producing my comic because then I would have to let go of the team that's currently working on it, and it's really hard to disband a team and then put them back together.

So, the comic continues to be produced while I am on hold for publication.

Given the repeated hold for publication, I am beginning to explore other avenues for publication. I hope to figure that out by the end of this year. But things are changing. I have it, I just legally can't publish it right now, which is quite frustrating. My current contract has a negotiation period in Dec, which will be interesting.

Anyway, enough of that. I'm really excited to get back to 'Dungeon Diving 203'. We're going to rejoin Ken and his raid adventure. I had really struggled with what to do for the raid, how to make it fun and exciting, and then I realized I'm just going to throw in a big twist. I'm going to really open up the dungeon and the greater connection of worlds, and see where it goes.

For those of you who don't know, I am a pantser, meaning I make up most of this as I go, while trying to follow the rules that I set on the previous things I made up. So, I'm excited to see what we do here with 'Dungeon 203'.

A little note about DragonCon: it was absolutely fantastic. I loved all the people who referred to me as their guilty pleasure, and the spouses who stepped in for their husbands, informing me that ‘He reads all of your books. He's just too shy to admit it.’ So, thank you, everyone, for being readers. It's okay if you're a little shy about it.

I will be back at DragonCon next year. I will try to get more involved. We will see what I can swing. This way, I can get out in front of you guys, and you can quietly sit in the crowd and enjoy me talking about whatever they want me to discuss. This was very interesting this year. I would say my favorite panel this year was when I had to role-play Ard in a fantasy dating game, which was wild. Ard made a couple of mistakes, and in the end, he was drowned by a mermaid, chopped apart by a viking shield maiden and eaten by a troll. So, yeah, that seems very Ard, especially without Emlyn there to keep him out of trouble.

Thank you Patreons for coming on this journey with me!