December End of Month Announcements! (Patreon)

Merry Christmas one and all!

Another year gone! I hope all of you are well and with family and loved ones this holiday season.

On the present-giving front, I have two!

First! ART! A WIP of the opening panels of the webcomic pilot, along with concept art of Aion and Thanatos! Sadly, I don't have the updated Thanatos with White Dove sitting on their shoulder.

Second! The Grandfathered Iona tier ($10) has been briefly unlocked! For anyone at the current Iona tier ($15), it's everything in that tier... but cheaper! For anyone at the current Elaine tier ($10), it's just pure extra content for the same price for jumping over! If you're currently in the grandfathered Elaine tier... I'll be honest, it's probably not worth it. You can't go *back* to the grandfathered Elaine tier if you leave it.

You can stay in the tier as long as you'd like, but once you leave the tier, you can't get back into it. Once again, grandfathered Elaine tier beware! Merry Christmas!

Presents done! Onto more announcements!

Next week is my admin week. No chapters! Boo! Hiss! 

In January, the week of the 26th is going to be my admin week. No chapters then.

Book 9 is JUST about done, I anticipate chapter 405 will be the last chapter of the book. It's a shorter book - about 110k words - but book 8 was stupid long at 210k words. It's not my shortest book, but it's not a beefcake.

Book 10 is plotted out, and that's looking like it'll be beefy. I just sent the commission off to the cover artist.

I'll be announcing and linking things once they're all ready on Amazon. I was hoping that it'd all be set for today's announcements, but sadly no. Sorry!

Along with book 9 being done comes a fairly important announcement and shift. Read me! 

For a long time BTDEM was on RR, and being a fairly traditional serial. As many other books have gone to KU, BTDEM has only briefly 'flirted' with KU, going on for 3 months before bouncing back to RR and the rest.

KU didn't quite meet my initial projections, and I made a calculated risk that I'd do better on RR at the number one spot. Plus, at the time, it didn't matter if I was making slightly less money.

Things have changed on my end. Salvos managed to earn the #1 spot - a big congratulations to Melas! - and I'm going to be moving this summer. At the same time that I move, my wife is dropping back to support, and my writing is going to become my family's primary source of income.

I also ran some analysis on what I did wrong last time I was on KU. Primarily, I was missing the pitch and plug to pull people from KU to RR and Patreon.

I can afford to play games when my income is secondary. I can't afford to play games with my income when it's primary for my family. As a result, when book 9 launches on Amazon, books 1-7 will also go up onto KU. This has no impact on anyone reading on Patreon.

On a positive note, when my wife and I move and flip things around, I should be able to up the number of chapters I produce in a week. I'm not making any promises, but I can easily imagine writing at least 4 chapters a week. If my creative juices are doing well, 5 chapters a week, with the possibility of starting a second series. (IF - big IF - I write a second series, it'd be more of a "one chapter now and then to build up a big initial story" type thing that I'd probably keep semi under wraps until it was ready. BTDEM will always be my primary focus.)

Webcomic update: Images above! I've gotten more, and work is being done. There's rumblings about a kickstarter with a lot of incentive artwork and other things! I'll let you know more as it happens.

Audiobook update: Honestly, I haven't heard much from Podium. They have books 7 and 8. They'll release it when they're ready... which I hope is sooner rather than later...

I'm sure I had more things to say that I'll remember the second I hit post...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays one and all!