This update is a lot later than I’d originally intended... sorry about that. My internet at home’s been spotty, and I can’t post these things on my phone for some weird reason.

Anyway, I’ve got bad news and sort-of good (decent? Maybe?) news.

First, the dry vegetables: Cobalt Rogue, Vol. 3 and Vol. 3.5 are facing delays. Just haven’t had a lot of time or energy to meet the deadline with life and work and all that wonderful stuff. I’ve postponed those bigger projects to early 2018, which is going to be a busy year for me...

Now, the potatoes: The Goodreads Apple Book Awards or whatever they’re called invited me to send one of my published works to be considered for nomination in one or two categories of their lineup. Problem is, it costs quite a bit of money just to enter two categories, and I have no idea where to pay online, and no one has responded to my IM’s as of yet... which is a bummer since the price for submission goes up even more come September. I was thinking of submitting I Keep My True Love in the Basement/REMIX, but hell, if I don’t even know where to send my payment, I don’t think this is going to happen. Not to mention the risk that absolutely nothing will come of it, and I’ll have thrown away over a hundred dollars. So who knows.

Finally, the dessert: Cobalt Christmas will still meet its December 10th deadline for this year. I won’t completely let down the one or two people looking forward to its publication (lol). Nothing’s going to stop me from meeting that deadline (except maybe death. Maybe).

Believe it or not, I’m working my ass off. I’m eighty pages into Cobalt Christmas so far, out of a projected 180-200 page length, and when I don’t have my laptop to make progress on that, I’,m making progress on Cobalt Rogue, Vol. 3 on the Microsoft Word app on my phone, even though it frustratingly lags like a lazy motherfucker with cousins in the snail family.

Stay tuned...