NaNoWriMo off to a good start

After a few days of nonaction, I got time to hammer out the first chapter of Champion of Venomspire tonight for NaNoWriMo, and I'm pleased to say that it went swimmingly. I'm afraid that Champion will not be the additional free release I was speaking of, but that new project's first short is ready for an editing pass. As soon as I get the time to have it done, it will be posted.

As for Enchantress, I've got the next chapter open on my desktop as we speak. I think, however, I will try to knock it out in the morning. I'm faced with the odd task of finishing one novel while writing its sequel, let's just hop that everything continues to go well.

Also, a pleasant reminder for those who have an interest in supporting my work in a non-ebook way, my Patreon page can be reached on the sidebar, as can my social networking links. I hope to begin to post new content alerts to them before the Usual Places going forward. I'm just so excited and grateful to have people who actually read my work at the moment, it's really inspired me to go ahead with this trilogy.

NaNoWriMo Imminent, Upcoming works, and PATREON!

So, now that I'm making progress on Enchantress again, and almost have another short ready, I'm faced with National Novel Writing Month. I've participated in this a few times in the past, under a different name, and my original intent for this year was to use it to get the sequel to Enchantress out.

Unfortunately, due to the certain life/financial issues that basically consumed 2 months straight (and still rear their ugly head to slow me down), Enchantress is clearly not going to be done in time. I could go ahead and do it anyway, so I can put the sequel up very shortly after I clean up Enchantress, but I don't know, that just seems... cheap.

So going forward, I'll continue trying to meet the once a week or once every two weeks release for Enchantress, which should be very doable. Starting soon, I will be posting a new collection of short stories revolving around a group of new heroes here on this

Also, if you've been looking for ways to support my writing, especially my free releases, but don't want to just buy my ebooks over and over again, do take a look at my new Patreon page. Contributions there will allow me to improve my overall content production pipeline, and enable me to continue providing free content. http://www.patreon.com/acorvusauthor

Thank you all for your continued interest in my work.

A hell of a month

It has been, in a word, a hell of a month. Just when I thought things were settling down, real life decides to beat me about the head soundly. That having been said, I did get quite a bit of planning and some writing done, so hopefully we'll be able to see updates to Enchantress coming down the pipeline soon. I have the sequel thoroughly planned out, then a capstone for a trilogy. I'm very excited about it all. Less so, however, when I realize I need to really budget more for cover art. But I'll get to that point at some point.

This last month I've been doing house repairs and dealing with family crises, but I've also been absorbed with the release of the newest edition of Dungeons and Dragons. In case it was difficult to tell from my works, I am a huge tabletop gamer. I can't stop praising the new edition enough. It feels like I've finally come home to a system that is both new, and yet respects the history of the game. For me at least, it has thus far almost made up for fourth edition. Almost. We shall see what happens with the monster manual and dungeon master's guide.

In other news: In the near future, rather than posting chapters of serials I'm already posting elsewhere, regular readers of this blog can expect to see some shorter works posted here from time to time. I hope that this will encourage people to come back more often, as God only knows that my random ramblings can only go so far.