Update Link: Karma – Part 1

If you weren’t able to read this at the Liason Haven or you want to read it again, I’ll be posting it through Monday, one part a day. I’ll see you on Sunday for Flash Fiction!

TL;DR Summary

• Mad World Release schedule is being adjusted one more time. I had planned to release one chapter a week starting Wednesday, April 6, and continuing one a week until May when I would increase to M-F.
• We’re going to maintain that one chapter a week on Wednesday through May, and possibly into June.
• Flash Fiction is going to stay on Sundays, but I’m not promising it every week. I’ll either post at the normal time around 11 AM EST or I won’t.
• I’m releasing Karma, the novella I wrote for Liason Haven next weekend.
• All Patreon perks will be released on Sundays instead of Saturdays. I had a few things I was posting on Saturdays, but it just isn’t working.

If you’re interested in learning more about any of these things, you can click the Read More link. Otherwise, subscribe to the mailing list and get emailed when I release new material.

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Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 28

News & Roundup

• Official Mad World Release Schedule
  • Chapter 076 released Wednesday, April 6, and then every Wednesday until the end of April.
  • Starting Monday, May 3, chapters will be posted daily Monday – Friday until mid June.
• Counting Stars
  • Writing for Camp NaNoWriMo in April. Should finish the first draft somewhere in late May, early June.
  • Editing this summer.
  • Release in the fall.
• Fool Me Twice, Books 2 & 3
  • Drafting this summer, editing next fall, release next winter in about a year with a similar M-F schedule.
• Flash Fiction
  • Signs of Life should be posted until mid June, then a break.
  • Scars returns in July with more frequent updates (unsure, but definitely 3x a time to get it completed)
  • Planning to go on Flash Fiction hiatus in August.

Patreon Updates

• Crimson Check #13 posted for all patreons.
• Mad World – Final Edit
  • Weekly updates posted for Stalker tier started & Chapters 76-79 posted.
  • Monthly updates will be posted for Adored tier on March 31.
  • Full draft will be posted for the Devoted tier when it’s completed, sometime in April.
  • Weekly updates will begin for Love tier on April 2. They will get Sunday updates of anything that’s being posted that week.

Happy Sunday!

Dropping in to say that Daylight Savings messed with my sleep schedule and by the time I woke up, it threw off my whole day. So no Flash Fiction today, we’ll be back next week!

I’m making a slight adjustment to Mad World’s release plans. I’m still going to start posting in April but rather than beginning daily Monday-Friday posting, it’ll be a bit slower — one chapter a week until May when I’ll increase to five chapters a week.

I was proofing my second draft  and came to small storyline arc that just felt a bit superficial, and I realized that some of the characters involved had been huge beats going back to Book 1. It just didn’t feel like a satisfactory ending. I started to reorganize it, and along with some other changes as well as some real life complications, I just got about a week, maybe two behind my schedule. When we get to that point in the story as I post it, I’ll be more specific 😛

This is sort of similar to what happened with Fool Me Twice last year, except that was made a lot worse by the anxiety issues I was having and my general level of burnout and stress in real life and with writing. The entire editing process of that book got derailed and messed up because I felt such a deep pressure to maintain a posting deadline I had promised, and now I have some regrets on how I handled a few things in Book 1. Nothing major, just a general level of wishing I had made more time and given myself more space.

I’ve worked on Mad World off and on since 2014, and mostly on since 2017. The serial rapist storyline had been in my head since 2004. As we head into the final book in this series after nearly a decade, I just want to do right by myself and the universe, as well as the readers who’ve stuck by me this long.

Chapters 76-79, the first four chapters, are relatively solid. They need the last bit of polish, but other than that, they’ll be good to go. That’s why I feel really good about slowly building up  the posting schedule.  I’ll have an actual schedule ready in a few days.

I really appreciate your patience and understanding 🙂

 

Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 27

News 

• Mad World – Final Edit
  • I’m going pretty slowly through the beta edit catch any last minute typo and continuity errors.
  • I should finish around March 10, then I’ll be editing 2-5 chapters a day with a goal of being completely done by around March 25.
• Posting Schedule
  • I’ll be posting Chapter 76 as a preview chapter on Monday, March 28.
  • Starting Monday, April 4, I’ll be posting one chapter a day Monday-Friday.
  • I won’t post on the weekends and I won’t do update posts.
  • Join the update list in the sidebar and you’ll get updates that way if you want.
  • Then on Saturdays, I’ll post a round up post of all chapters posted that week.
  • This should take us to about the end of May.
• Camp NaNoWriMo – April
  • Working on the plot breakdown of Counting Stars as we speak.
  • I’ve broken down around 9 or 10 chapters.
  • I’ll be writing that in April & May, editing this summer and releasing in the fall.
• Other Crimson Glass News
  • Karma is coming April 1.
  • I got a question about Fool Me Twice’s color scheme, and I’m going to be updating that at some point in the next few weeks.
  • The blue on blue isn’t working for me, either, to be honest but I never got around to fixing it.
• Patreon
  • There’s no Patreon posts for this week.
  • I got a little backed up at work and really just vegged at home, working on Mad World’s posting edit reread. I’ll have a lot more next week.

Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 26

News & In Case You Missed it

• I completed Mad World‘s beta edit on February 21.
• I’m working on the final round of edits during March.
• Mad World will begin posting on April 4, 2022. Chapter 76, the first chapter, will be posted early as a preview, I think, a week early.
• April 1, I’m posting Karma which was exclusive to Liason Haven for three months.
• Tentatively set my project schedule for rest of the year.
  • March: Editing Mad World, Discovery for Counting Stars.
  • April-May: Drafting Counting Stars, Discovery for Fool Me Twice, Books 2 &3
  • June-August: Drafting FMT Books 2 & 3, Editing Counting Stars
  • Fall: Releasing Counting Stars, Editing FMT, Discovery Broken Girl (November NaNoWriMo)

If you’re interested, I live-tweeted my editing of Mad World from beginning to end. You can read the thread.

Patreon News

• Posted Mad World Beta edit for Stalker, Obsessed, and Adored tiers.
• Discovery #8 posted.
• Check #14 coming later today.
• Patreons will be charged for March beginning on Tuesday, March 1. Tomorrow is last day to change or cancel before the next charge.

Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 25

News & Roundup

• Mad World’s beta edit going well. We’re at 30/41 chapters completed.
• Continue to stay on track for April 4.
• Still hoping to get Books 1-3 re-released for ebook but it’s just not a priority at the moment.

Patreon Updates

• Crimson Check #12 posted for all tiers.
• Crimson Discovery #7 posted for Stalker & Obsessed.
• Stalker Mad World chapter update coming tonight.
• Adored will get full beta draft on Saturday. Obsessed gets the monthly update as soon as it’s done.
• Livestream Watch Party coming in first week of March. More news on that later.

Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 24

News

• Mad World, Book 4, still on schedule for April 4.
• I’ve edited 25/41 chapters and am scheduled to complete beta edit Feb 21/22.

Patreon Updates

• Mad World Beta Edit 91-100 added for Stalker tier.
• Crimson Check #11 for all Patreons

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Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 23 – Rated R

Spotlight: Mad World, Book 1

• New weekly feature. Picking a story and highlighting for new readers and others who might have missed it. I was doing this back in the summer a bit with Throwback Thursday.
• This week, I’m highlighting Mad World, Book 1. We have eight weeks to go before the release of the finale. If you haven’t read the series or reread in a while, think about getting started.
• Mad World, Book 1 begins in June 2003 and rewrites the panic room storyline. It’s 19 chapters and I wrote it in what feels like a fever dream in July 2018. I wrote 77k in three weeks. It’s kind of insane to think about that.

News & Reminders

• Mad World scheduled for April 4, 2022 release. Currently editing beta draft. I’m 15 chapters deep with 26 to go.
• Counting Stars scheduled for April Camp NaNoWriMo. No ETA on release, but maybe in the fall.

Patreon Roundup

• Stalker Tier: Mad World Beta Edit, Chapters 82-90 posted.
• Obsessed & Stalker Tier: Crimson Discovery #6 blog posted. Also created post for Malice (Bittersweet sequel) with discovery material.
• Crimson Check #10 for all tiers.

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News

• Cancelling Flash Fiction again
  • I was completely overwhelmed last week by work. It’s my first year working on the National Junior Honor Society and we had to plan our largest in person event since the pandemic that wasn’t graduation. It was literally just me and my co-advisor planning and executing the entire ceremony, from organizing the officers, the 48 new kids, the speeches, the decorations, the Covid extras–I spent soooo much time at work last week and was changing my welcome speech until literally an hour before I gave it.
  • I just didn’t get anything done all week that wasn’t the ceremony, to be honest, and by the time I got to the weekend, the thought of doing anything creative made my head hurt.
  • That being said, I have my duty period off tomorrow so I’ll have some downtime at work to decompress and get back on track and I took this weekend to veg out and recharge
• January Recap
  • Despite a few hiccups with Flash Fiction, I’m happy with how the first month went and I feel like I mostly kept to my schedule and deviated when I needed to. It’s part of my resolutions to be generous with myself and honest with timelines and so far we’re good.
• February
  • Goal is hit all 4 Saturdays for Flash Fiction
  • I’m also aiming to finish beta draft of Mad World, so cross your fingers!
• See you next week!

Patreon Posts

• Crimson Discovery #5 added for Crimson Obsessed ($10) and Crimson Stalker ($15) tiers.
• Mad World  – Beta Draft – Chapters 80-81 posted for Crimson Stalker ($15)
• Mad World – Beta Draft  – Chapters 76-81 posted for Crimson Obsessed ($10)
• Crimson Check #9 for all tiers.