Dear Reader,

Above you see Taro in the twilight on a rainy afternoon. I had visitors recently who kept calling him Tarot. Which is a fantastic name for a cat, and I may use it in the new series I'm writing. But Taro's name comes from Taroko Gorge in Taiwan, which is one of my favorite places. I've hiked it 3 times. Amazing every time. For short, he is the root vegetable, taro, which is delicious.

I've been hard at work getting the last of my books out of the Kindle Unlimited program so that I can sell them in my own store and also other stores. Wish me luck, guys. The last time I tried this, I failed miserably. My books were in all stores for well over a year, and during that time, they sold little or nothing on non-Amazon retailers, while sales on Amazon declined precipitously.

But I didn't have my own store back then, and The Knight and the Necromancer didn't exist. I feel like it's worth another try. I love the Zon. I really do. But I'd l like to know that if they sneezed, they wouldn't smash me. I need more Zon-independence.

At this point, all of my ebooks are for sale in my own store, and most audiobooks also include the ebook bundled together. If you bought an audiobook before I was doing that and you'd like the ebook, just let me know, and I'll have Bookfunnel send it.

In order to avoid clutter in my store, I've tried not to duplicate content. If a complete series version exists, I've offered that version only, not the individual books. The downside: this would have made it impossible to sample the first book in a series for cheap or free. In order to address this issue, I've created a First-in-Series Sampler. There's quite a lot of value here. Please do read the description of each book before you dive in. About half of them are SFW and half are not. Some would make good bedtime stories for your kids and some very much would not.

What else is going on?

• I'm 10,000 words into the first Sleipner book! It is a pleasure to finally bring these characters to life. If you want to follow along in real time (read the draft as I write it), you can do that at the $1 level on my Patreon.

• The Pirates of Wefrivain Books are still not correct on Audible. Specifically, books 3 and 4 have not been updated with the new material. If you want them as I intended them, please get them from me.

• "Distraction" continues running in the Patreon feed. Episode 4 (of 8) will drop tomorrow. You need to have read or listened to Hunters Unlucky and Lullaby for this to make sense. Lullaby is still in the feed ahead of Distraction. Hunters Unlucky is here. Additionally, you can listen to a huge free sample of Hunters or read it (the ebook of the sample is now included) right here.

Yours, an Author with so many cat names,
Abbie