What’s Up, Jaguar! (Going into the end of the year)

Surela 2 is done, and lots of you are already enjoying it (and lots of you have preordered the retail edition, and will be enjoying it shortly!). A reminder: please leave a review! I’m continuing to focus more on direct sales, and reviews on my shop site will help me shake free of my reliance on retail sales. (Also, I’m paying $15 a month for that review app! Seeing new reviews show up makes me feel better about the expense.)

So that’s the last book release of 2024. I considered launching the Holy Cow! Sticker Kickstarter, but we’re butting up into the holiday-shopping season when most people are using money for other tasks… so I’ve backburnered that until next year. If you want a holy cow sticker, though, let me know and I’ll sell it to you individually.

 The only other things I have planned for this year are to resume the gamelit serial, and December’s inkvent event on Youtube – keep an eye on my channel for my daily shorts. And possibly one more short story, either for an anthology or for fun, if I feel like doing a Christmas short.

 Looking ahead to 2025, I’m not sure about scheduling. I have a bunch of projects… it’s just a matter of when they get done. This is the list:

• SURELA 3 – already got some of the outline for this and I find I really want to get to it and finish off Surela’s arc!

• Gamelit Novel – will be done early in 2025, so I’ll be handling the cover art and preorder set-up soonish.

• Archipelago Art Book – is about half put together; I want that to be my experiment in art book publishing with Bookvault’s fancier options. Hardcover, coated paper, etc.

• Dreamhealers Refresh – Other than Mindtouch, which got a 2023 update, the books of the Dreamhealers series are all in old, handcoded formats that will make it hard for me to prep a hardcover/box set edition. I’m going to clean those up. (Your typo reports will finally get handled!)

• Plus, a few Kickstarters – either a “Best of Sketchbooks 1-10 (help me get this scanned)” art book, or a few more sticker KSes (like the holy cow)

I don’t have any definitive plans for the project after Surela 3 and Gamelit… I think I’m going to wait until I’m done and see what I feel strongly about. Some of that will depend on wild cards… for instance, I applied to have a rack at a mall store, and if I get that chance I might do some seasonal books, or continue some of the series that would be accessible for new audiences. I’m also slowly adding to a new meta-conversation book for Kherishdar, which means Kherishdar is percolating.

 This is honestly a lot more nebulous than I like, but I remind myself that the foremost source of stress in my life (the multiple joblessnesses) hasn’t gone away, so I shouldn’t be too hard on myself. I say that now to prevent you all from in your kindness reminding me. <3

As usual, I will keep you updated when things change! And we’ll have fun things here for the remainder of the year, as usual.