End of March Edition - Dirty Hearts/Pod Problems

Dirty Hearts

I feel like I'm getting close to being on the home stretch with 'Dirty Hearts', which is a bit silly, because I'm only 151/238 pages done with the editing. I've managed to keep up a steady pace of 10 pages/day, which is slower than usual, but it feels sustainable without completely taking over my life (I can edit about 7 pages/hour).

I have a convention coming up at the end of the week, and that will be rather disruptive to my usual schedule, so I'm unsure how I will handle it. We'll see how it goes, but I won't promise anything.

It seems likely that I'll be ready to release this novel the second week of March, but I'll provide another update when it gets closer!

Pod Problems

This story is coming along nicely. I'm currently 20K words in (52 pages), and I'm on the final chapter. I suspect I will be done with this story in the next five days.

I don't have a cover, synopsis, or author's notes for this yet, so its release date is uncertain. Worse, I don't have a plan for what I'm writing next, so it's going to be an awkward couple of weeks here until I get things sorted out.

I may do some garden path writing to start out with. I'd like to write something pretty short and hot this go around, maybe something to do with drones. I already have a great background plot idea, but I don't have an interesting story, which is problematic.

Ah well. Another problem for future me.

Gumroad

I said last time that I'd try to write more uncensored stuff, that I didn't think would necessarily be accepted on Amazon, and that I'd end up selling that sort of thing on Gumroad and setup a tip jar there.

Well, that plan has been completely scuttled by the fact that Gumroad has banned everything NSFW, full stop. They are no longer an option.

This is a bummer to me, as I had done a lot of research to find a home for some of the stuff I've been thinking about doing.

Since that option is gone, I think my only solution is to sell that kind of stuff through Smashwords/Direct2Digital, which is less restrictive than Amazon.

Repopulated might be a good candidate to put on there, but I don't currently have any plans. For now, it will remain free until I can figure out how to sort this out.

Ah well, that's life.

Discord

If you'd like to lurk on my discord and see my progress on my various works in a more up to date fashion, here's the link:

https://discord.gg/HfyQS3Rdzd