Doe and News

Want to keep all of you up to date on what’s going on, so here’s a quick rundown as we head toward the end of May:

• I am still quasi-serializing the remainder of Surela’s novel, a chapter every weekday. Writing is going steadily enough now that I’m anticipating a June release date. You can read along if you want to with this link (and if you want to jump to the last update, search for ‘1234’): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AVjTOSX-8rS7z62CcEoLlqSLV_RQ5ICAe4wNjSZMmJA/edit?usp=sharing
• I wrapped up the Kickstarter last week, so if you haven’t received a book yet, it’s on its way. (If you backed for an ebook, remember to check the project updates to get the download link.)
• After Surela’s done, my next target is to finish up the Peltedverse holiday book’s anchor novella (about Lesandurel and Araelis). I don’t anticipate that taking me too long. I hope. It keeps growing. But that should be done by July.
• Payment went out for the audio edition of Haley 1, and we’re looking at June for that release. It’s going to be great, the narrator is fantastic.
• I am still working out the many, many issues with shifting my workflow from combo PC/Mac to Mac-only. In general I don’t regret focusing on a single platform because it’s made many things easier, but I admit I expected the Mac to still be the industry leader in design and graphical software and instead it’s either on par with my PC or worse in some ways (mostly in terms of wrangling hardware). I’ll find workarounds but for now a lot of things I was in the process of doing have gotten harder. (Some, to be fair, have gotten much faster—the “manuscript to finished book package” pipeline is nearly frictionless now.)

Periodic reminders:

• Supporting me on any of these various platforms nets you a pass into my discord server. Come by any time. I need to set a role for you to keep the server from forgetting you after you log off, so if you show up, ask me or one of the moderators to give you a role. Perma invite is here: https://discord.gg/VQpTujSRQg 
• I have an etsy storeif you want to pick up a signed/doodled book for your collection (https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioMCAH), and a zazzle store if you want a random print, mug, or notebook. (https://www.zazzle.com/store/mcahogarth)
• I haven’t been youtubing much because getting all my cameras set up with the new computer has been unexpectedly annoying, but I did do livestreams of half the book doodles from the last Kickstarter and those are online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Bsfc38KFtQRBssDLMQWjw

I am excited to be so close to wrapping up the last two Peltedverse projects I had planned for this year. That’ll give me four books out in 2023: Haley 6, which came out in February, to the Court of Love, which just came out, then Surela’s novel in June/July and the holiday book in November/December. That means I can use the entire back half of the year to do whatever I want! No pressure to get anything done for release… anything I write I can schedule for 2024, or pop out in autumn if I feel like it. I can even mess around with serialization or another Kickstarter if the project lends itself to either. It’s going to be sooooo great. I loved the books I wrote this year, but the whole “have some releases ready for this year” deadline situation makes for stress no matter how much fun you’re having.

Close this with an image I found while moving/organizing my hard drive. This is an old piece but I’m still fond of it. It’s called “The Keeper.” More trips down memory lane later this week!