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Catching Up and Getting Behind

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I should have posted a long time ago but I've been busy writing. Yeah. I'm about through the first draft of Double Take book 2 (51 chapters). I'm sending stuff to my editors now and that means no break between Book 1 (Ending May 26) and Book 2 (beginning June 1 and ending October 29). Between that and writing/editing Wayzgoose's Wild Woods, I've been kind of busy. That will start posting here in mid-April.

So far, I've written over 300,000 words this year. And in the midst of that, Mike wrote to me to ask how my Swarm story was coming! Um… Slowly.

Well, I guess that's all the real news. Time to make shit up.



I can't believe it's already March 13. I have a month to get my income taxes filed. They should be simple, but deferred income from retirement savings (IRA) is all taxable and I have to come up with money to pay all the corporate bigwigs in the country for their tax breaks. Thanks for the tax relief.

I suppose I'll take a couple of days off writing as soon as Double Take 2 is finished and do my taxes. Then I should clean my trailer and get ready to move again since April 15 is also my departure date from Quartzsite, AZ. I've been cranking out so many words on my current works in progress that general maintenance has taken a back seat. I suppose one day I'll even have to wash dishes!



I should be celebrating! This week, Double Take captured and has maintained the number 1 slot in the Top 50 Ongoing Serials by Weekly Downloads. I'm thinking that means I should drink wine from a bottle one night instead of wine from a box.

My patrons, of course, are reading about ten chapters ahead of the posting schedule here on SOL ($5/mo tier) assuming they haven't downloaded the eBook and finished Book 1 already. The patrons who are willing to endure my unedited copy ($10/mo tier) are almost through Book 2 at this point. I'm working on the calendar of events for Book 3 so they'll have new material every week. They, after all, are the ones who make it possible for me to post all my stories for free, including those by Wayzgoose.

Because I know what living on fixed income is like, I stay committed to posting everything I write here on SOL so it can be read for free. If you want to support that effort, you can do so by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/aroslav, or by making a direct donation at www.paypal.me/aroslav. I know some people have said they can't find me by searching, so copy the address and paste it in your browser. Amazon, Patreon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and just about any other major site you can think of suppress search results for sites containing adult material-even if you don't ask for safe search. You have to know what you want in order to get it.

That reflects on my decisions about how I publish books for a broader market. I don't see myself uploading any more books from Devon Layne (erotica) to Amazon. They will continue to be available to those who want them on my website at reasonable prices. My mainstream fiction (Nathan Everett) will be released on Amazon unless they arbitrarily decide my writing is too radical and thus a 'violation of Amazon's Content Guidelines' and ban those as well. Barnes & Noble now offers both eBook and print services for independent authors and have not (as yet) set themselves up as content censors like Amazon has. I'll continue to publish on the B&N site.

It will take a while for me to get my website (www.devonlayne.com) as robust as I want it to be, but I'm making more on sales there than I did on Amazon anyway, so I'll continue to release books through my site.

All that to say, all my stories will continue to be available on SOL for free, but those who are committed to supporting the author will still be able to buy the eBooks (and occasional paperbacks).



I should learn not to write blog posts after I've already had my quota of wine for the evening (a buttload) and so I hope you continue to enjoy my stories as much as I enjoy writing them! As long as I am able, there will be a steady stream of aroslav and Wayzgoose stories here on SOL.

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