Newsletter - October 4, 2022

The end is near!

For my work project, that is. Less than two weeks left. If it takes longer than that, likely I won't have that job long term. It'll be nice to be done either way.

Elliah finally got to the friggin' river. So proud of her... she showed such patience waiting for me. I think I'm a lot more particular than I was when I wrote my first book. I'm also a lot busier. Slugs in molasses have gone faster than this book.

Not knowing how the town was laid out, we ended up skirting the silvervein grove and hit the river first. Its presence became clear from the rising white noise of the river and then the dramatic increase in sound as we parted the final trees. The river stretched wider than I remembered from crossing it years before. I didn’t know whether that was because Anysa lay farther downstream from where we’d crossed it in our past, or my memory was faulty, or the storm had pushed it up its banks. Possibly all of those reasons conspired together. There’d been a wide footbridge upstream, stretched between tall conifers that banked the river. I expected to see something similar, but jutting hills blocked my view. Despite the jagged terrain, the river traveled smoothly, having carved its path over countless millennia, though occasional rocks fallen from the chasm walls jutted from its depths.

For the month of October, I get free shipping through Printful. I offered to let other authors create items, and Edith Pawlicki took me up on the proposal. She quickly pulled together some fantastic mugs for her books (click on the pic below to get to her mugs). You can also get my mugs with free shipping. If you want anything else, ping me and I can remove the shipping costs. For clothing items, I have to remove the shipping on each variant, meaning color and size, which can be hundreds of clicks. The interface is quite poor for that, and I'm not going to remove the shipping costs unless someone pings me and says they want a grey, XL sweatshirt or whatnot.

o To-Do list for writing last week:

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Plug away at Book 1 of Thaumatropic Roots - got Elliah out of the woods! sort of... I mean, she's going back in soon enough... into the Heartland.

o To-Do list for writing this week: