Hey guys, hope you're all doing well. I have been struggling lately, food has not been my friend. Basically felt sick for like a month. It kinda sucks, but that is life. Basically just trying to catch moments when I feel semi-normal whenever possible.
On the bright side, if you haven't heard, the audiobook for Lotus Lake was completed and surprise released on me. You can find it here: ht...
2021-08-04 07:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Funeral, funeral, la la laaaaaaaa, it's SO HOT. Urk. I helped my sister move closer to me this weekend, and yeah, the area is having record highs so I'm just quietly melting in my apartment. Stay safe y'all. Don't get heatstroke.
Thanks for your support! <3
2021-06-27 04:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, so it's been a while again. I have been saying that more than I like lately, but... sigh. I really hate giving excuses. Truth is, I haven't been in a great mental space lately. Things happened. I spiraled pretty bad. As always, I'm working on not getting trapped in my spirals.
Anyway, I hope you all have been well, and had a lovely Father's Day this last weekend. As always, thank you for your love and support. It helps things be not as bad for me. <3 Remember, you are lovely!<...
Hey guys!
Hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day! I've been kinda sick and out of it lately, and I realized today that oh yeah, it's probably because the doctors changed my medication fairly drastically and my body needed to adjust. SO much fun, ya know?
Anyway, thank you so much for your love and support, and especially those who've helped me by leaving reviews on Lotus Lake. It's been doing well for my lack of advertising, and I know a big part of that is because of the su...
2021-05-10 05:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey loves!
Whew, yeah, it's been a while again, but Lotus Lake comes out in three days! I'm so excited! However, I've been trying to get back on track with Insight again, and I finally finished this chapter today. It's been a weird bit of mental gymnastics because I'm still doing a bunch of Lotus Lake stuff, like trying to find the perfect narrator for the series, but hey, that's life.
Thank you so much for sticking with me. I appreciate your love and support! Happy hump day! Hope...
2021-04-15 03:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey loves, it's been a while.
This last month has been a little crazy. I've been sick, had a bunch of doctor's appointments, my birthday, gave up caffeine and dealt with the withdrawals, and the soul sucking that is editing and learning how to business.
With that said, I've added about 15k words to the book and I think it's -much- better now. I'm going to go through and lower the tiers of the remaining first draft chapters on here so you can read them if you want, but the end prod...
2021-04-05 19:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey loves, exciting news! Sandara has started working on the cover sketches for Lotus Lake, so this is the first look at them! While I love them both, I'm going with the darker idea so she'll be fleshing that out further and then I'll have a typographer doing the rest, since she just put stuff there as a sample. I also had my dev editor start yesterday, and that's a wild ride for me. I'm trying to wait to go through things until he's gone through the whole book, because I need a little distan...
2021-03-02 15:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I'm finally done! The end! Although Angela is totally a placeholder name, I don't actually want the AI to be called that, it was just the first thing my tired brain thought of, so it got shoved in there.
So, what does this mean? Well, probably a few days at least of me going through and editing it myself, and then I've got a professional editor scheduled for the 1st of March. So I'm not vanishing, just have to do some polishing before I start doing new con...
2021-02-19 06:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I am... soooo tired... I tried to sleep earlier but my brain would NOT shut off because anxiety wanted me to finish. So instead, I wrote, verrrrrrrrry, verrrrrrrrrry slowly. I still need to do the dev epilogue, but that can wait for me to be somewhat coherent again.
I have no idea how rough this chapter is. Math and Jay Tired brain don't mix well. I also need to figure out what the big city name is, wheeeeeeeeeee. I need it to be good and brain don't want to brain to figure ...
2021-02-18 22:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
So, minor fix happened in chapter 30, I had her stop by the bank at the end to grab stuff. And it appears that there's one more chapter before the book ends after all. My assessment that there was 1-3 chapters depending on how the characters screwed with me apparently meant 3.
This chapter is...much crafting. Also, this was the 'defining event' that I thought was going to be waaaaaaaaaay earlier in the book, and also why my very first title for this idea was originally...
2021-02-18 14:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I got held up on the blossom ability for a bit, think there's probably one more chapter before this ends, plus an epilogue. Oh also, in one of the last two chapters I added a bunch of pictures after the fact of the party, if you read it immediately and didn't see them. Just fyi.
In the end, I think I'm going to name the book Lotus Lake: Rise/Path of the Mystic Mage. Haven't decided if I'm using Rise or Path, but Elysium would be better as a series title, but I want to us...
2021-02-17 08:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Woooh, more done! So depending on how much my characters like to screw with me, there's probably 1-3 more chapters before I end this book. So close!
Also, I think I'm getting worse. At least Siphon took place over like 5 days. This one has taken place over like 5 hours. Aaaaaaaaand I still don't know what to call it. I know Mystic Mage is going to be the series title, but I still have no idea what the book 1 title is going to be. Or what I want on the cover. Yaaaaaaaaa...
2021-02-16 01:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, I'm noticing this more and more, so just a small reminder. Please, please only leave actual suggestions as edit notes. Going back and fixing stuff that isn't a real fix is a bit annoying for me. This includes stuff like 'ignore suggested spelling.' Please, just ignore it instead of marking it with a suggestion that I have to go back and fix. Or be careful not to add random spaces in places. Please, please, pay attention. It notifies me every time people make the smallest chang...
2021-02-15 06:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
So it's been a long week. My body kinda went into rebellion with migraine and cramps and things, and then I've also been trying to participate in the LTUE conference when I'm feeling okay. It's also just been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for me, since I was supposed to have been in Colorado and Utah the last two weeks for conferences and gotten to see my friends, and that has been denied me again. So yeah. Plus today was MDP reddit AMA.
Plus there was ...
2021-02-13 09:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a weird night. I tried to sleep early, then woke up a few hours later not feeling like I'd really slept at all. Ah well. Such is life. Hope you're having a lovely weekend!
Also, DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN.
2021-02-06 15:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Bugs and wet boots. Yep. These things are no fun!
Hopefully everyone is having a good day! It's Friday! What? Yeesh, week has flown by. Just fyi, next weekend I'm going to be doing a panel at the online conference(this year) of LTUE. It's normally a lot of fun, and tickets are like 25$ I think? So it's pretty cheap for decent con content if you're looking for a few days of something to watch. It holds a bit of a special place in my heart, because it was the first con to officially...
2021-02-05 10:58:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey loves! So it's been a -really- long day. I've barely slept because hey, I spent hours at the doctor's today and then when I came home and collapsed, they kept calling me to confirm things. Yaaaaaaaay.
So yeah. I'm loopy and tired and missing ten vials of blood, but hey! Life is good! I got to see a doctor and I've got appointments for a specialist and an allergenist so maybe I can get my health under control! Wouldn't that be nice?
Hope you're all having a lovely day! &l...
2021-02-04 06:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
"Honestly, write anything -- your patrons will love it." Huh. I just noticed the helpful encouragement that shows here before I start writing anything. Anyway! I do always hope that's true. XD
Small fix today, had to go back and add in cooldowns in chapter... 2 or 3? One of them. For her taming skills and stuffs. Think that's the only new thing. Oh! I had to do some worldbuilding on life skills because it popped up on the loot table and I needed to be able to roll for what s...
2021-02-03 05:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy February! This ended up being a long chapter. Crazy how fast the last month flew by. It's really hard to think that January is over. It feels like Christmas was last week. Have I really been living in Washington for 5 months? What the heck? This is madness.
Also, yay for rolling on the human stupidity table...wheeeeeeeee.
Anyway, as always, thanks for your support! <3
2021-02-01 16:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew. Okay, with writing the anthology submission, the panic attack that came with that, revising it again a few more times, and then getting my brain back into the right space, plus signing and sending out a bunch of books, it's been a few days.
Also, I discovered the wellerman sea shanty from tiktok or whatever two days ago, and I'm pretty sure this three hour youtube video has been on endless repeat ever since. 2021-01-31 11:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally getting -closer- to what was supposed to be the iconic turning point in the story, and now looks like it's going to come at the end of the book, which weirds me out a little. Small fix, mystic bunnycorns went back to the name bunnycorn lords, which was what I had originally called them in my sheets and just forgot when I got to the chapter and was setting up the quest.
So fun story, Ash almost just died for real. Thankfully she had enough HP to live, but that random ...
2021-01-24 12:14:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so there was actually a rather large fix last night that I had to do because I'd forgotten about which death mechanics I'd chosen to utilize, so the encounter in ch 10 was altered to reflect that.
Another side note, please stop trying to fix bunnycorpse and skillbook. I wrote it that way on purpose. :P Also, don't try to fix the Canadian, please.
Anywho, hope y'all are having a good start to the...how is it the weekend already!? Man, my days are seriously blurring together w...
2021-01-23 12:42:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyoooooooo, don't think there's any patch notes this time. I keep hoping there won't be any more and that I'll have finally gotten everything consistent, but you never know. I mean, I guess I don't really mind, as it means things are getting refined based on people's suggestions, but eh.
Hope everyone is having a lovely day! Reminder that I'm streaming tonight with Dave and Xan playing stardew at 6pm PST. You can find it on this twitch stream: 2021-01-22 11:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Think the only fix I had to make was that I didn't account for her shirt during the last stat sheet because I never gave the stats for it, so that's been updated. Oh, and the last chapter has names now. They might be important to know for this chapter.
My emotions have been randomly all over the place today, and that seems to have come through in my writing, go figure. But also, the dice summoned people and I had to adapt, because that was not at all how I expected tha...
2021-01-20 13:49:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't want to stop and figure out what their names were, so I didn't. However, the chapter is done aside from that and I wanna sleep, so I figured you guys wouldn't care too much. Feel free to toss out name suggestions, I'll do something about it when I wake up. <3
Thanks for your help and support!
2021-01-19 13:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Patch notes: Fixed the name of some items so they're showing up as the right colors, and gems are now back to the name of crystals, which they should've been from the beginning. Changed the proficiency levels to use correct names, instead of the quickie fix name I'd shoved in before. Also updated a few things because I remembered bracers are much like earrings, and I didn't want them to be one item, so now that's two slots, as it should be.
Anyway, this was a heavy stat chapter. B...
2021-01-19 09:36:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Some note fixes: Fixed one of the traits she picked from Wolf Blood to Phoenix Blood, which changed a few of her affinity values and her regeneration values. Also fixed ch 12 so she actually used her new skillbook.
Also, I totally started off this chapter remembering "Oh yeah, treasure chests are a thing. I should've been rolling for that earlier... woops."
And in case you're wondering, yes, I do roll...everything. I roll how many bunnies they face off against. I roll ...
2021-01-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm tired. Don't really have much else to say about this chap, it's a short one.
Happy Saturday?
2021-01-16 13:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know that I made any changes today, other than adding in the chibi of Rune last night, but I figure most of you saw that already. I'll probably make one for Yorukishi shortly. Hopefully you like the chibis! They amuse me.
Happy weekend!
2021-01-16 07:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post