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Still alive! Still digging out from under various projects!
Queen of Swords Press stuff:
A Death at the Dionysus Club (Lynes & Mathey 2) by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold comes out on Thursday, but we have a deal running on Smashwords: buy it now for a discount and agree to sign up for our mailing list. It ends in 28 hours so move fast. When it comes out, it will be available everywhere, just like Book 1. And it's terrific!
Speaking of terrific, I just signed Michael Merriam's Weird West novella, Terror at Tierra de Cobre for a March release at MarsCon, where he is one of the Guests of Honor. It's an all-women spin on the Magnificent 7, with monsters. Good stuff!
And I signed Melissa Scott for a new edition of her Astreiant Series (Point of Hopes, etc.), plus a new novella in the series! The plan is to do an omnibus ebook of the original books (4 novels + 1 novella) in June, with a print book coming out each month, culminating in the new novella in print and ebook in December! Should be fun!
Also fun: Last table event of the year! Look for the Queen of Swords Press booth at the Minnesota Women's Art Festival this Saturday at the St. Mary's University Student Union in Minneapolis (across 26th from the American Swedish Institute). I'll be peddling Jana's work and my books (and bring others that people are interested in for purchase and pickup at the table). I'm going to be shutting down Jana's Etsy at the end of this month so if you're not local and there's something you want, now's the time. It's just too much work to maintain, alas, though I'll still have her work at our tables and at MCBA.
On the less jolly end of things, my beloved and terrific book designer, Terry Roy, has been experiencing some pretty bad health issues. Sending her all the best and hoping that she's doing a lot better soon.
Catherine writing stuff:
Blue Moon is inching along.
I've also been working on a project for my Patreon on the history of LGBTQ+ Publishing that I'll be continuing for December. Sign up for any amount or stay tuned for my next talk on the subject.
Catherine life stuff:
Where to begin? First, BIG thank you shout out to everyone who pitched in on my Ko-fi campaign for Capricon. I did make my goal so that's one obstacle hopefully out of the way. Rumor has it that day job is extending me at least through first quarter of 2024, so that will help a bunch. Still waiting on the CADI Waiver from the state, however. In the meantime, Jana has deteriorated further and there have been some exciting moments, so her PCAs and the social worker I work with got the county involved and turned the heat up under me to start looking at memory care. I toured a place the week before last and liked it and their nurse is coming to evaluate her on Thursday. However, Jana is the same woman who got kicked out of adult day care for being disruptive o all bets are off at the moment. If they're willing to take her, they'll take her CADI pending. There will still be significant upfront costs and I'll have to pay for furniture, etc. for her room. So that's one possibility of how things could roll in the next two months. After the eval, I'm going to talk to the company I talked to a few weeks back about 24/7 care at home and to the friends with healthcare experience who volunteered to stay here and herd her if we can't get her placed before February and Capricon. Fingers crossed that I can get some combination of these options sorted.
More bulletins soon!
Queen of Swords Press stuff:
A Death at the Dionysus Club (Lynes & Mathey 2) by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold comes out on Thursday, but we have a deal running on Smashwords: buy it now for a discount and agree to sign up for our mailing list. It ends in 28 hours so move fast. When it comes out, it will be available everywhere, just like Book 1. And it's terrific!
Speaking of terrific, I just signed Michael Merriam's Weird West novella, Terror at Tierra de Cobre for a March release at MarsCon, where he is one of the Guests of Honor. It's an all-women spin on the Magnificent 7, with monsters. Good stuff!
And I signed Melissa Scott for a new edition of her Astreiant Series (Point of Hopes, etc.), plus a new novella in the series! The plan is to do an omnibus ebook of the original books (4 novels + 1 novella) in June, with a print book coming out each month, culminating in the new novella in print and ebook in December! Should be fun!
Also fun: Last table event of the year! Look for the Queen of Swords Press booth at the Minnesota Women's Art Festival this Saturday at the St. Mary's University Student Union in Minneapolis (across 26th from the American Swedish Institute). I'll be peddling Jana's work and my books (and bring others that people are interested in for purchase and pickup at the table). I'm going to be shutting down Jana's Etsy at the end of this month so if you're not local and there's something you want, now's the time. It's just too much work to maintain, alas, though I'll still have her work at our tables and at MCBA.
On the less jolly end of things, my beloved and terrific book designer, Terry Roy, has been experiencing some pretty bad health issues. Sending her all the best and hoping that she's doing a lot better soon.
Catherine writing stuff:
Blue Moon is inching along.
I've also been working on a project for my Patreon on the history of LGBTQ+ Publishing that I'll be continuing for December. Sign up for any amount or stay tuned for my next talk on the subject.
Catherine life stuff:
Where to begin? First, BIG thank you shout out to everyone who pitched in on my Ko-fi campaign for Capricon. I did make my goal so that's one obstacle hopefully out of the way. Rumor has it that day job is extending me at least through first quarter of 2024, so that will help a bunch. Still waiting on the CADI Waiver from the state, however. In the meantime, Jana has deteriorated further and there have been some exciting moments, so her PCAs and the social worker I work with got the county involved and turned the heat up under me to start looking at memory care. I toured a place the week before last and liked it and their nurse is coming to evaluate her on Thursday. However, Jana is the same woman who got kicked out of adult day care for being disruptive o all bets are off at the moment. If they're willing to take her, they'll take her CADI pending. There will still be significant upfront costs and I'll have to pay for furniture, etc. for her room. So that's one possibility of how things could roll in the next two months. After the eval, I'm going to talk to the company I talked to a few weeks back about 24/7 care at home and to the friends with healthcare experience who volunteered to stay here and herd her if we can't get her placed before February and Capricon. Fingers crossed that I can get some combination of these options sorted.
More bulletins soon!