Jaguar Progress! October Round-Up

*eyes graphic* Okay, so. In October, I WROTE. *checks last progress* In fact, I wrote 71,431 words to finish the draft of PG6. 

There you go. I won NaNoWriMo one month early. >.>

We're lining up for the end of the year here in Jaguarverse:

• All Twin Kingdoms books should ship by end of November/beginning of December. This means print editions of both romances will be available for the holiday shopping season.
• E-edition of PG6 should also launch end of November/beginning of December, completing the Princes' Game series.
• Also in December, I'll be putting out an e-book box-set for Reese... check out the spiff graphics!

Fanceh!

So those are my planned releases. I'm also hoping to get in a print edition of Either Side of the Strand, since Strand's audio edition is also in the works. Collectors who prefer my art on the covers, buy those now--I'll be shopping for new covers for the Alysha series next year!

My "new stuff in the frying pan" for the rest of the year is low-key, because as most of you who've been with me a while know, I LOVE CHRISTMAS and basically start celebrating Christmas at the end of November. >.>  But I'm already working on editing the first Alysha novel, Sword of the Alliance (you know, the one that goes before Strand that I should have put out years ago). My plan is still to have that ready for Q1 2018, before I start writing Dreamstorm.

But in MORE IMPORTANT BRAINSPACE NEWS, ABOUT PATREON. Seriously, read this part!

Patreon has finally done what I hoped they'd do ages ago and created a plugin for Wordpress that lets you make patron-only pages/sections, and redirects people to Patreon to pledge if they try to access any of that content. It also manages logins to your Wordpress site so all the credentialing is seamlessly handled. That means I can resume developing my content off Patreon, and this is important because 1. Patreon's comment system bites, and 2. Patreon has no archival ability. Oh, and 3. Patreon's search system also bites. Have you ever tried to find one of my older posts here? UGH.

(No offense meant, Patreon. I really prefer you as a patron management system, not a content delivery system.)

So I've been THINKING, (a dangerous pastime, we know). And my tentative thoughts are to set a newsblog back up on my website at mcahogarth.org, which would have things like the book launches and progress reports. (Some of that would be locked, like the sales discussions). I'd also restart the Kherishdar serial there, because we appear to be staying above the "I don't need to care what I write" goal... as long as that remains true, I feel okay about devoting some time to serializing fiction that otherwise doesn't sell, particularly someplace with a comment system that actually works.

But the other thing I'd like to do is develop a fansite, with a group blog where people do things like post recipes based on the books, or host book discussions, or share fan art or calligraphy. It would be what the community wall here was supposed to be and fails to be because Patreon didn't make it easy to use, and give people who aren't on the chat server a way to interact with other fans.

All this is still up in the air. I don't know how you all use Patreon, and whether you'd miss having the content here. My sense is that most of you don't come to the site, though I plan to send you all a poll to see if that's true. But I really love the idea of there being a fansite where people can chat with one another, and Patreon just made that much more possible.

Your thoughts on this are (obviously!) welcome. :)

But anyway. That's October's round-up. I'll have the sales figures up later this week.