Tryin’ to Persist Over Here!

Holy shit. Why is this year? WHAT is this year? It’s only April!? I expected some fuckery when the Idiot Reich took over but fuuuuuck am I tired.

This will be one of my least favorite types of newsletters: where I have very little to tell anyone. I’ve been making progress on The Secrets of Bloodhenge, but even there, less than I’d like. Only another 10K words since January. Which, okay, that’s still ten THOUSAND more words than I had at the start of the year, but I was hoping to be into the 50Ks by now. I guess that’s still pretty good given the horrors persisting and my attempt to do so as well. Honestly, my mental health is still not the best and my sleep is still not the best and I’m still not sure how to fix things there. And it doesn’t help that we’ve got the full fascist breakdown of this country and everything that comes with it, including the likelihood that I may very well not have insurance by the end of the year.

I did decide to book a spot with my editor and my artist for next summer. The idea was maybe if I have them booked, it would help spur me on to get more words done. I’m still hoping maybe I can finish the first draft by the fall, take a month off, and start the second draft. I could plan the Kickstarter while doing that, launch Spring 2026, and try to release in Orctober as I have since 2016.

Everything is hard but I’m trying to find the little joys where I can. I’m trying to remember to get off social media and outside again and move my body and be social. It’s still hard to do the social part sometimes because, as some of you may remember, there’s still a fucking plague about. Turns out, it’s just real hard to live your life with all of THIS going on and not just stick your head in the sand about it. None of this is good for anyone’s mental health.

So this is all the update I have for now. Please take care of yourselves. As I keep saying, hold tight to love and hope and community. It’s the only way to survive.

Oh yeah, and this summer will mark the 10th anniversary of A Demon in the Desert so that’s…wow, that’s something. I should probably do something for that.

Until then, go listen to Myth Carver, a new epic heavy metal band out of Texas with some absolutely TASTY fuckin’ riffs. Highly recommend!