April Newsletter

Time for a monthly roundup.

Coming out of a massive amount of extraneous work, I'm trying to re-focus on what I'm presently doing, and what I'd like to do. Let's start with the present. The Black Hole Volume 2/Pinup kickstarter is presently ongoing. It met its goal, which is great! Remember to back, as this will be the only time you can get these books for the near future. Additionally, Volume 3 of Black Hole is nearly complete. Additionally, I'm trying to re-focus on Hurricane Heart. I want to put most of my extra attention on getting that updating again. I'm considering re-structuring how Hurricane Heart updates into a bifurcated system. Where it alternates between character updates and story updates, in order to make it more achievable every month. Let me know how you'd feel about that.

Additionally, I am considering mildly restructuring the patreon. I'm thinking, for purposes of social media penetration, perhaps making the pinups be three Ennuiverse-related ones, and one fandom-related one. The fandom-related one would still be a vote thing, so y'all would still have a say in how it goes. Let me know in the comments how you'd feel about that. Additionally, I will be releasing a poll soon to see how people are feeling about the patreon, and why you specifically back it, so look out for that.

In the immediate future, coming soon is a "wave two" to the online shop. This will include print-on-demand versions of Ennui GO! Volume 0-7, Nyx, and Emma Nova. Additionally, there will be one or two new shirts, and preorders for booster packs of the Ennui GO! trading cards. We're waiting on like, ONE more thing for the POD books, we are SO close to making this work.

Slightly further away from that are the kickstarters planned for later in the year. Coming next will be a joined campaign for Ennui GO! Volumes 8 and 9. After that, will be Black Hole Volume 3 and Pinups Volume 2. Depending on how it's scheduled, there may be time for one more, but we'll see. As well, I'm still working on the second novel in the series, Raziel and the Magical Mystery Cult, but progress is slow as a new round of edits has shown that the project needs some reworking. At present, it's about half done.

Further on down the line, we're looking at things that either are not started, or have stalled out. Due to a variety of factors, the Nyx tarot deck expansion is on hiatus. Due to being a very busy parent, burnout, and general low interest in Nyx, I haven't had the energy or motivation to continue work on it. I'd like to, please, give me a reason to keep working on it. But at the moment it's hard to maintain interest when there doesn't seem to be any.

Additionally, long term I am considering the viability of expanding the trading cards into a proper TCG rather than the curious piece of fan-merch they currently are. All the cards are written with a specific ruleset in mind, but I'd need some kind of incentive to double down on producing them. What do you think? What form should that take? I'm open to suggestions.

Lastly, for the long term I would like to consider a full steam release of Hurricane Heart once it is in a stage of development where I'd feel comfortable releasing it to a wider audience. That won't be for a while, but it's something on my mind.

Let me know your thoughts about any of this, how you feel about any of my projects in general, or any other thoughts you might have about my projects, the patreon, or the state of the Ennuiverse. I always want to provide the best entertainment I can as a one-person show, and nearly all of my income comes from Patreon, so I'm always open to feedback.

That's all for this month!

Stay tuned.