Hello, Lovelies.
Above, you see Taro, sleeping in extended pretzel mode. He's no doubt dreaming of how to turn on the guest bathroom sink. Because he did...turn on the sink. It was running for a day before I found it. Taro and Mochi were taking joyful hourly birdbaths. They love water so very much. (And that's how they got shut out of the guest bathroom.)
What's Changing?
So, guys, I've grown weary of playing cat and mouse with email filters. Many email providers seem hellbent on preventing newsletters like mine from reaching you. After a lot of painful deliberation, I've decided to begin posting my newsletters to my blog as well as sending them the normal way. Here's the actual URL - https://www.abigailhilton.com/abbies-blog
If you prefer old-fashioned RSS and/or browser bookmarks instead of email, you're in luck. Before you unsubscribe, however, let me say that I will still keep the newsletter perks exclusive to email. I value your email addresses. Giving me an email address that you actually check is an act of trust. I want incentives to remain in place for people to do that, so I will redact newsletter perks from the blog.
Another advantage of posting newsletters to the blog is that you can easily check if you think your email provider might have gobbled up one of my emails. If you haven't heard from me in a while, drop by the blog and see whether you missed something.
Finally, I'll try to reenable comments. Someone asked me about that recently and I was like, "Only bots comment; I disable comments." But that might change if I start posting there a lot.
Fiction - How's it Coming?
Like a hurricane. I finished my new Hunters Unlucky-related novella, "Lullaby," and immediately started into another. This one is way too racy for the primary novel. It's about Roup and Halvery. I can never post it on Amazon. I am clearly insane to be writing it, but it's too much fun not to. "Lullaby," along with the first two installments of the next novella are currently lurking at the $5 level on Patreon. (The racy ones are called "Flirt" an "Dissemble.") You need to actually be familiar with the novel for these to punch properly. "Flirt" and "Dissemble" build on "Lullaby," so read all the pieces in the order they were posted. All the content warnings, folks. Seriously, you have been warned.
If you read and liked Hunters novel, but are not down for racy content, no worries. "Lullaby" is one of the better things I've written in a while and it's same "heat level" as the novel. It'll be part of a collection hitting stores in the next couple of months. As for the other one (OMG, why can't I stop writing it?), that will end up in my online store.
But, Abbie, I hear you say, I do not care about your animal epic or any of the poignant or naughty stories you care to spin off of it. I only care about Pirates of Wefrivain. When is Cormorant coming?
I'm about 20% done with my edit! I'm working on it daily (I promise. In addition to the...other thing). As I hoped, this one does not need a ton of work. I expect to start getting it out to copyeditors in something less than 2 weeks. I will also have pre-orders up for the relaunch of the whole series within that timeframe. If you are patiently waiting for those...you're so good. Seriously, you're so very patient. Thank you. I will get them up soon.
And a few of you are saying, "I do not care about any of your Abigail Hilton books. I only want more A. H. Lee content." That's the Sleipner-verse. It's coming, too, but probably not before the beginning of next year. In the meantime...try some of this other stuff? All of them have some LGBT themes.
New Short Story
This week I'm bringing you another appetizer story for my upcoming Pirates of Wefrivain relaunch. This one is called "Bad Blood." It's got Gus from the previous story, running into one of Percy's crew (Padmay) while they're both in port. We get a bit of triangulation on what Silas and Percy are doing from the point of views of their crew members. We also get a blossoming friendship between these two that plays a significant role in the novels.
Padmay is a hunti. These are my hyena people. If you've never read about spotted hyenas...boy, have you got some interesting googling ahead of you. Seriously, just read their Wikipedia article. I'll wait.
So anyway, yeah. Spotted hyenas are the trans guys of the animal world. Their biology is super interesting. Having a race like that in my stories lets me play around with gender in interesting ways.
Read "Bad Blood" here.
Yours, An author who is just going to keep writing this oh-so-wrong story until she gets it out of her system,
Abbie
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