Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 39

Summer Schedule on Google Docs | Patreon

Happy Friday! It has been a long week, but it’s finally over, and I feel ready to actually start my summer vacation. I’d been dreading getting my wisdom teeth out for ages, but it wasn’t terrible. Thanks to TMJ and the other weird chronic pain issues I’ve accumulated over the last few years, I live with a general level of pain anyway so adding onto it with some soreness in the jaw ended up being no problem. The worst problem is that my motrin would wear off in the middle of the night and sleeping got a little tricky. And I really missed eating real food! But I feel pretty good today which is why you’re getting that update 🙂

I’ve put together the preliminary schedule for this summer in a Google Doc along with times. I went through the Phillies schedule and already incorporated any changes to that 3PM posting on M-F, and added in any days I know I’ll be out of town. I found out I don’t have summer school which is great for writing and prepping for next year, but might be a bit tough on the budget, so I put together a perk for the $1 tier over at Patreon, hoping to encourage a few people to sign up at least for a few months 🙂

Here’s the schedule for the rest of June. For more info on each project, look below the schedule.

• Friday, June 20: Dear Reader, Part 39 @ 3PM
• Mon, Jun 23 & Tues, Jun 24: No posting. Going to Baltimore with my mother to see my aunt. She’s been in the hospital since March.
• Wed, Jun 25: Dear Reader, Part 40 @ 6PM
• Thurs, Jun 26:Dear Reader, Part 41 @ 2PM | Crimson Swift @ 12PM (on Patreon) $1 Summer Special
• Fri, Jun 27: Dear Reader, Part 42 @ 3PM | Crimson Swift @ 12PM (on Patreon) $1 Summer Special
• Sat, Jun 28 & Sun, Jun 29: Malice @ 11 AM (on Patreon)
• Mon, Jun 30: Dear Reader, Part 43 @ 3PM | Crimson Swift @ 12PM (on Patreon) $1 Summer Special

Dear Reader should conclude on or about July 9. I finally sat down to figure out the rest story on Wednesday, and it has (after today) 11 parts left. That might change if I don’t manage to write all the planned scenes in each update, but I’m usually a pretty decent predictor of what I can do in an hour. Once it’s complete, it’ll be collected into a PDF for the Patreon Flash Fiction collections. It’ll also go into edits to get ready since it’s our first “single” from the Midnights collection. I’m making a concentrated effort to plot out stories to fit into the Crimson Swift collection so we can finally see some movement!

On July 10, the first single in the Taylor Swift Debut collection, I’m Not Sorry, will be the next flash fiction series. I am very hyped about this one. Initially, it was just a vague idea to rewrite the Cates murder so that, you know, it had a resolution, and then I had a dream where it just clicked into place. Yesterday, I started plotting it out, and wrote 3500 words for just part of Act 1. I absolutely loooove this idea and am eager to write it.

Malice is the sequel to Bittersweet, my summer 2002 rewrite. It’s been lingering in the “next” list for ages, and I decided in February to launch a perk for the $10 tier where I’d write first drafts of long overdue novels (Feels Like Home, Broken Girl Book 2, Burns in Heaven, etc.). It proved to be a bit a struggle to maintain as we moved into the home stretch, but I’m excited to get back into it. There’s stuff already posted, and I’ll be working on it this summer pretty steadily, every Sat & Sun at 11 AM. I post whatever I write, whether it’s a chapter or just scenes. The first draft is then edited and released for free

Crimson Swift Summer Special is the new special $1 perk that I hope encourages a few more Patreons so I can make up some of the gap I’m losing in not teaching summer school. I’m writing curriculum this summer which will help, and I have a tuition reimbursement coming hopefully in the next paycheck, plus the conference in July will have a paycheck so I’m probably only down maybe 25-30% which isn’t terrible. So if I can make up even 5-10% that would be awesome. The plan is to write in 25-minute sessions on M-W-F at 12 PM and post whatever I write. They’ll be edited and released for free when they’re done. Up first is the majorly overdue TTPD: Black Dog collection! If you sign up for that $1 perk now you can read the first 15 pages. New updates start next Wednesday.

These Small Hours, Book 3 is not on that list mostly because I’m not officially scheduling posting. I’ll be dedicating at least 2 hours a day to it, M-F starting Monday (I can write hopefully when my mother goes to sleep, my girl passes out early, lol). It’s a shorter book and I’m planning to reuse a lot of material from the first draft, so hopefully there will be a turn around. Patreons at $15 tier get regular updates when chapters are completed, and $10 tiers get monthly updates.

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