If you are currently reading Model Student, Triptych, or The Prodigal, download them! Tonight, I'm going to upload the new version and it might be very difficult to find your place in one of the six books that will replace the three currently on the site. The new books will be approximately the following equivalents:
Current Model Student will become 1. Mural, 2. Rhapsody Suite, 3. Diva. In order to balance the books a bit, Diva will include a chapter or two of what is currently Triptych.
Current Triptych will become 4. Triptych, 5. Odalisque. That story was seriously way too long!
Current The Prodigal will become 6. The Prodigal.
I do not have plans to change or re-release the Triptych Interviews at this time.
In other news: I began posting Wayzgoose's Steven George & The Dragon on my site for Patrons. That means I'll start posting it here the first of May. If you want to join on Patreon to see things sooner, let me know.
Among the things that will be starting for Patrons soon is the re-edited and illustrated US Highways, Book 1 of "Wonders of My World." I'm including photos of my journey around the country. I'm having a lot of fun reliving it remotely since I'm still sweltering in place in Pharr Texas. 92 degrees with an expected high of 97 today. Highs in the upper nineties and into the 100s for the rest of the week. Sadly, it looks like I'll be another month here waiting for things to open up safely so I can travel north.
I'm glad I don't need groceries this week. Wearing long pants, long-sleeved shirt, gloves, mask, and hat can get hot. And no one can see my eyes because as soon as I don the mask my daughter sewed and sent me, my glasses fog up. One of the little things we do in life in order to keep living.
I am getting some new stuff written, too, but it's going a little slower than I hoped. I have eleven chapters of Adams' Apple written and ten chapters of Pussy Pirates in the can. I expect both to be around 20 chapters. The latter will be longer in getting to post because it will need to be reviewed by the Swarm authors for approval as part of the canon. And you know how I love to push the edges of established genres. It could take them a while to brow-beat me into submission. But they'll succeed. I have a lot of admiration for those guys.
I've had some inquiries regarding when book 5 of The Transmogrification of Jacob Hopkins, Double Team, will be available for purchase. It looks like June 1. I'll post a note as soon as I have it up and ready.
I keep restraining myself from starting something else new. I've always been able to keep multiple projects in the air at once, but I have so many now that I need to try to stay focused on one or two. I think that's partly due to the quarantine and living in isolation. I keep having mental images of that one lone guy broadcasting the end of the world from a remote radio station, unaware that there is no one left to listen to him.
I'm confident, though. We're doing what needs to be done. A lot of the SOL readership is in the group of people considered highly at risk. We're old. I'd like to thank those of you who aren't for doing your part in protecting us. For that, I'll keep writing.