Happy Thanksgiving!

 May you always have more reasons to be grateful for than you can remember. 

Fatal Shadows: The Collector's Editon NOW IN DIGITAL!

 

Yes, Virginia, thanks to the gracious and timely intervention of Deb McGowan (a talented writer in her own right) at Inroad Publishing, there is a Santa Claus. Well, there is, but actually, I was going to say there is now a beautifully formatted epub version of FATAL SHADOWS: THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION. 

It's up for preorder most places excepting Amazon, and it will be going live December 16th (on Amazon as well as everywhere else). 

Smashwords

Barnes and Noble

Kobo

Google Play

I CAN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU WHAT A RELIEF THAT IS. 

Anyway, while I continue to struggle with the concept of a collector's edition that can't actually be collected, I struggled more with the idea that a whole heck of a lot of Adrien English fans couldn't afford the collector's edition. 

In short, another one gets checked off the list.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and do the Advent Calendar this year, so if anyone has any contributions, send 'em on over. I don't know for sure there will be codas from me. I hope there will be, but Lament at Loon Landing HAS to be done this year. I've already lost nearly a full week of writing due to prepping for Thanksgiving. Why do I always imagine I'm going to be able to write during a week spent doing everything from rushing to get the last fall plants in the ground to polishing silver? How does dinner for twelve turn into a marathon of what amounts to gathering nuts for the winter. 

(Er, I don't mean my family are nuts. They are, but that's not my point.)

 I'm sure there's other news, but that's plenty for now. I still have strings of outdoor lights to untangle, a lost birthday present to track down from Amazon, three rose bushes and one hawthorne plant to transplant, Advent Calendar posts to write... And hopefully another couple of chapters to write...

Lemme Tell You a Liddle Story...

 

When my sisters and I were growing up, that was one of our favorite routines when we had some long, convoluted story to relate. This announcement was always accomplished by mis-propping our chin on our hand--accompanied by elbow sliding off the edge of the table...

{You know, coz we were pretending to be drunk. Which apparently was sidesplitting stuff back in the day. (What can I say? We had a goldmine of drunk Scottish and Irish relatives to pan for material.) ;-D }

Enywhoooo. I may have bitten off more than I can chew this month, but I'm going to aprise you of the current schemes simply because it's been a while since I had an update.

There's just a lot going on right now, and I'm working around it as best I can. Please notice the lack of any firm release dates.

So I'm back to work on Lament at Loon Landing (Secrets and Scrabble 6). This is the priority project. 

I'm also doing a chapter a week of Puzzle for Two on Patreon. The novel is now half-complete, so there's one for the win column.

AND because I may be writing slowly but (or maybe because) I'm going through a super-creative phase, I signed up for NaNoWriMo this year to kickstart a novella called 44.1644° North. The goal is set at 50,000 but that's way more than I'd need. This will be 35,000 words at most. Tense and tight. That's the goal.

Basically, the writing is going very well, but also it's going very slowly. 

The Movie-Town Murders is due out in audio any day now. Death at the Deep Dive is supposed to be out in December, but... We'll see. Even if it's completed in December, the backlog at ACX will be horrendous. 

Hide and Seek is now available in ebook, print and audio. It's a nice little Christmassy one.

Speaking of the holidays.

I'm not sure if I'll be doing the Advent Calendar this year or not. I'd like to, but it's is a LOT of work. And although the page views remain high, the engagement is low. So is it worth it? I don't know. 

Okay. Here's a big one.

Despite my very best efforts, I just cannot come up with an affordable print edition of Fatal Shadows: The Collector's Edition. I really did try, but the best I could manage was a paperback edition that still costs $49.99. That's... Ouch. For a lot of readers that's still prohibitive. 

(OH! It's on sale right now for $33.96 at Amazon. That's the lowest I've seen it--and Amazon seems to have set that price. I have no idea how long that might last.)

Anyway, it's not very fair to have a collector's edition that a large percentage of Adrien and Jake's most devoted fans can't even afford. So I'm going to try and do it as an ebook for the holidays. I say TRY because I'm going to have to format it, and that is a very intimidating idea. UGH. But I will try. It might have to go up without the artwork? I don't know. I'll do the best I can. We all remember what happened when I tried to format the newspaper article for Slay Ride...

How the heck can it already be November? This was such an action-packed year, and yet it passed in a blip. I mean, it was a good year. It felt like a peace and prosperity year--possibly the last we'll enjoy for some time, if the elections go the way I fear. But let that go for now. 

That's it for the updates. Still here. Still writing. Still doing the things. I hope you're doing well!