So the last week of May is here which means I’ll be slowing down quite a bit of a work after the next few weeks (not much call for substitutes in the summer). I’ve had a ton of things planned for ages, but health and time restricted a lot of it. My health has bounced back in spades with the exception of some rough allergies this weekend and my time is easing up. So I thought a preview might be in order.

Supporting Crimson Glass

Every time you visit this page, every time you read and comment, you make my day. Especially those of you who’ve stuck out the last few months as my updates trickled to a stop. My writing has picked up and I’ll be back to posting more in June, and everything will be back in July.

I posted a few weeks ago about creating a Patreon page in hopes of defraying some of the website costs. They’re minimal (I pay $11 a month for a fantastic hosting plan at Dreamhost and about $15 in domain costs a year), but I’ve been borrowing the money from my parents for the last few months. I’m back to work, but my student loans are coming due as well.

I completely understand not donating because I can barely afford to support my favorite podcasts at Storywonk (they just added a Veronica Mars podcast to their writing seminars, Buffy, Outlander, and Star Trek podcasts so yay!) and time are tough for everyone.

The way Patreon works is if you were to pledge today, you would be charged on the first of the month. If you pledged June 2, you wouldn’t be charged until July 1. That’s why I chose a monthly campaign.  I also edited the rewards as summer kick off.

From May 25 to June 30, if you pledge $1, you can request an update to any story on the site OR the first chapter of any story I’ve listed on the Coming Soon page or talked about in the recent story status pages.  I will post all requests by the end of July at the latest. 

If you pledge $5, the reward remains the same: you can give me a plot for a short story which I will write by the end of the summer. 

I hope that maybe makes some of you who might have considered supporting the site lean towards it a bit more 😉 You have an entire month to consider it. Once you pledge, I’ll contact you for the requested story.

So check out our Patreon page for more information!

Story Updates This Summer

Damaged, though a bit off track this week, is scheduled to continue every week until 18 June 2015. I’ll take off a month to plot and write the next arc, which will be posted starting 18 July 2015.

All We Are will return 15 June 2015. I may bump that up if I can get a decent buffer completed.

The Best Thing will return 15 July 2015. This will give me enoug time to get All We Are and Damaged on a good footing and complete enough buffer chapters so preclude another huge hiatus.

I haven’t quite decided what my next project will be, but I hope to be a position to announce that later in June.

Site Updates This Summer

I’m working on the summer layout but haven’t quite settled on the colors I want to use. If you could consider the three palettes below and then vote in the poll. Click on the images to get a better sense of the them if you’d like.

 

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The ebooks page has been updated with my expected releases for the summer (The Witness, I Shall Believe, and All We Are).  I should have covers for them shortly. If there are any of my novels (save those listed or short stories and novella collections) you’d like to see in ebook form, let me know in the comments.

Your Weekly Roundup

Not much to update for this section — Damaged was only updated with one episode earlier this week. It was a busy week and I didn’t finish writing in advance. I’ll be forestalling that with the next arc by taking time off (haha, planned for a change) in order to get a headstart.

A new short story, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, was posted. I’m so happy to be writing again. I can’t wait for you guys to read what I’ve written for All We Are.