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The Tower 10-6
-https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/New password: reflections
The Tower 10-5
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/New password: pancakes
The Tower 10-4 - slight update
Hi! Somebody pointed out that another weird change to Patreon's posting UI had caused it to include the post password in its preview text, so I changed it. https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/New password: oracularThat shouldn't cause any trouble if you're already reading, but it might if you read the first email and see the wrong one. I apologize for any inconvenience there!
The Tower 10-4
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: oracularHi again! This one’s been a while - as ever, I’m really sorry about that. It came with a long stretch of creative challenges, some personal stuff, and two separate bizarre health scares. I hope it’s worth some of the wait. I’ve learned that nothing good happens when I try to set hard dates or schedules, but I’ll be doing my very best to bring you the rest of phase 2 in a more reasonable timeframe.Thank you so, so much to everyone who’s supported me through this quiet stretch. ...
Volume 2 is out now!
Amazon held it hostage for weeks again, but here we are!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MKNJHMAudible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Nowhere-Stars-2-Audiobook/B0D5JQ2SK7The system is still syncing everything up and hard copies don't appear to be available yet, but they should soon. Probably. I hope. You can never tell with this thing.
New Light from a Dead Star 10-3
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: syncretism
Book is free!!!
Our two-week stay in Bezos Purgatory ended overnight! Here's Volume 1 of the book edition of Nowhere Stars, edited and with pretty pictures, as well as the audiobook, narrated by the wonderful Caitlin Kelly:BookReal Physical Book In The Actual WorldAudioThank you all so much for helping me make it to a point where this is at all plausible. Our launch plans have obviously gotten a bit weird with that delay, and any reads/ratings/reviews you feel like throwing my way will help me dig my sad little tendrils into the ebook ecosystem, harvest th...
Book launch (eventually? maybe????)
Hi! I've talked some here about my publishing deal for Nowhere Stars, but I don't think I've mentioned set dates - my publisher told me day 1 purchases were more helpful than preorders, so I was planning to do a big announcement on the day the first edited/illustrated volume and its audiobook counterpart came out. On May 21st.It is, um, not May 21st, and it's been delayed enough that I thought I should make sure everyone here knows what's going on with me. Despite the book being passed through Amazon's internal review, f...
The Tower 10-2
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: weregild
The Tower 10-1
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: normal stuff
Volume 2 cover art!!!
I'm very very happy with how this one came out and hope you all like it!Chapter's taken me a bit for plotting-out-the-end-of-the-book reasons - thank you all again for your patience with it! I'll probably be moving a particular section I'm currently working on to the next one for structural reasons, so I should be ready to post in not too much longer. ♥
Nothing Hurts 9-5
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: nudibranch
Nothing Hurts 9-4
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: coral citiesHi again, everyone! I'm really, really sorry it's taken as long as it has to get this out. I'm better now, but this chapter and the next are fairly complicated ones I really wanted to get right, so it's taken me a bit to sort my brain back out.There's no world where the next one takes nearly as long. I've already moved some stuff from my draft of this chapter to the next, and I'm canceling some plans I had next month to take better care of my weird nightmar...
sick.
Hey - just wanted to let everyone know that it continues to be a bit of a rough health year for me. I'll keep doing my best, but it may be a little before I have the energy to do good work again. Sorry for the delays.
Nothing Hurts 9-3
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: only a dream
Nothing Hurts 9-2
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: not so normal tarot lessonsI live! Wow! I'm really sorry this one took so long, everyone. It has been a bit of a Brain Month for me, coming off a stretch where I was pretty sick. I hope you all like it. ♥
Nothing Hurts 9-1
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: normal tarot lessons
Fanart!!!
I was recently blessed with this mostly-current Lia in her cool new outfit and I wanted to share with everyone here. Thank you to raconomega for making it! ♥
Our Callings 8-3
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: together
More art!
Pearl's in it! It's good!That's all. See you Wednesday, if all goes well.
Our Callings 8-2
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: welcome home
Art!!!
We'll have interior black and white art for the upcoming edited rerelease of the ebook. Got our first piece yesterday from the artist, Bapho S. You can see his other stuff over here: https://www.fiverr.com/baphosI had a bit of medicine trouble over the last week, so next chapter will be up here soon as it's done, probably late tonight or tomorrow. I just wanted to share this in the meantime.
Our Callings 8-1
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: half of chess games end in drawsThis one's actually done early enough - very, very slightly early enough - to put here! Wowow, who knew? It's part of a mini-arc I have pretty cleanly plotted out, so I'll be trying my hardest to get the next one to you early enough for there to be an actual backlog up here again.Thank you all again for supporting me while I slogged through the Very Hard Chapters. I'll keep doing my best. ♥
I Don't Think I'm A Good Person 7-8
https://nowherestars.net/i-dont-think-im-a-good-person-7-8/
Publishing deal!
Hi, everyone! Yesterday, I signed a deal with Timeless Wind Publishing, an indie group specialized in dealing with weird niche webfiction content. This means a lot of cool stuff for the future of the story! I will now have People For That when it comes time to deal with publishing and marketing stuff I previously had to take spoons away from writing to stumble uselessly through myself. We'll have a professional editor on the ebook versions of the story to make the writing standards I insist on sticking to even better in the book's finis...
I Don't Think I'm A Good Person 7-7
https://nowherestars.net/i-dont-think-im-a-good-person-7-7/Hey! This one also took a good bit longer than usual. Once again, I’m so, so sorry for the delays and grateful to everyone who’s stuck with me while I made this very complicated stretch of the story the best I could.And it’s done now! I’ve also learned a bunch about my writing process and how I should do and approach certain ideas and scenes from this process, so it’ll help me troubleshoot potentially difficult chunks of story in advance going forward. The next chapters should...
I Don't Think I'm A Good Person 7-6
https://nowherestars.net/early-chapter/Password: everything is terribleHi again. This section continues to be the hardest to get right of the story so far - maybe the hardest in the story period, if nothing else in my plans surprises me too too much. But I'm doing my best, and I hope you like it.I'll be back with the last leg of this scene as soon as I can, and then we're on to some stuff that should be a lot easier. Thank you all so much for your continued patience with me. ♥
I Don't Think I'm A Good Person 7-5
https://nowherestars.net/i-dont-think-im-a-good-person-7-5/Hi! It's been a minute since I had anything new for you guys. I'm really sorry about that, and thank you all so much for your patience with me. Figuring out Business Stuff is taking a lot out of me, and this has been the hardest chapter so far to get just right. It came at a pretty tough time.That said, this chapter has ended up kind of huge! The full doc for it is 11k words and counting, enough that I've had to split it for size. Here's the first half. The second will b...
Quick update
All did not go well! My editor got food poisoning, I got a bit of a mental health crisis, and none of that made the current chapter any less tough to get just right.I'm really sorry this one's taken so long, everyone. We're getting better and still doing our best to get it to you as soon as possible - just wanted to let you all know where I was until then.
Chapter Delay
Hi, everyone - I'm taking this week off. I'm working on a tough chapter to get right while having a bit of a hard mental health time and occasionally lapsing into screaming existential terror about publishing stuff and whether it'll work out for the best, so I need some space to keep myself from exploding under the pressure. Sorry about that! If all goes well, I'll see you with more next week.
