Hello, My Friends.

You may have noticed that I sometimes get pretty personal in my newsletter. Something bad happened this week. Something awful. I'm not ready to talk about it yet. I will eventually. I'm having a hard time right now.

What's New?

Before the Bad Thing happened, I was on an absolute tear with new writing. Because my muse is contrary, I picked the least commercial thing possible - new Hunters Unlucky novellas, the second one very adult and super gay.

There's now nearly 60,000 words of new Hunters content at the $5 level on Patreon. It's 2 novellas, and they are tagged to make them easy to find. The first novella, Lullaby, is appropriate for all ages like the original novel. The second one, Monthly Distraction, is for grown-ups only. It builds on Lullaby. I'll be posting the final piece of that second one tomorrow. Thank goodness I had it pretty much finished before the Horrible Thing happened. I was having so much fun until then.

I know, I know. It's as though I said, "What can I write that will be utterly un-marketable? Is there a way that I can offend absolutely everyone?" But a few of you will love it. You're welcome. I wasn't really planning to write anything else in this world anyway, so I can't ruin it, right? Right...?

FYI, if you've never read my drafts on Patreon, they do include notes about what I was thinking as I wrote them and why I arranged the scenes the way I did. I typically take all this stuff down when I officially publish books or stories in their final form. If you like that kind of thing, it's there.

Yes, I will get them cleaned up and on sale eventually. Cormorant comes first. Hopefully now I can settle down and write Sleipner-verse books. Once I somehow come to terms with the Horrible Thing. Right now, I have no muse and no rudder.

New Short Story

This week I'm bringing you another appetizer story for my upcoming Pirates of Wefrivain relaunch. This one is called "Blockade Runner" and it is an exciting, action/adventure story about Gus and Silas at the height of their career with the Scarlet Albatross. They take a dangerous assignment to bring supplies to a blockaded island fort. These stories come down after 2 weeks, so read it now.

Yours,
Abbie

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