Cover Status!

Every draft is closer and closer to the final thing and it just blows my mind ever time that this is actually happening.

In this draft we see most of the colors that will be in the final version. We ALSO see a hand-tooled font by my illustrator! Several iterations ago they tossed in a hand-written font as a place-holder and it was so beautiful that I got kind of attached to it. I understood I was asking a lot, but they came out swinging. We are both aware it needs some fine tuning, but damn if it isn’t beautiful.

Overarching Project Progress!

• Two chapters of “From the Other Side” are complete and the third is at about half way. They each cover multiple chapters of the book so expect them to be a bit longer than the staggered lengths of their Jeron PoV counterparts. Sylus has firmly placed himself as a, hm, less than market-friendly narrator, but, again, that’s why he’s not hitting the shelves and Jeron is.
• Pre-orders will NOT be opening with the cover reveal. I think those will be pushed back into August once I have merch ironed out. There are a lot of great things hanging on the cover’s completion.
• Casual readers have been upgraded to Beta Readers, so editing is technically still in progress, but it is now reliant on their feedback. While writing “From the Other Side” I found plenty of typos myself, so I’m sure they’ll find many more plus anything I didn’t write clearly!
• I swore I had something else to put here but apparently I forgot…

Real Life Stuff…

Zucca is back in the hospital with Renal Failure. She was puking liquid Saturday night into early Sunday morning. At first it was brown like her food then it turned to bile. I called the hospital and they said to bring her in. She ended up with the same doctor she had with her respiratory issues. They did some x-rays and the doctor was genuinely in awe of how much Zucca had healed. She wasn’t supposed to get this better. Even the swollen bones behind her ears had gotten better and that wasn’t even something they were expecting. Her doctor called her a little warrior.

Anyway, her doctor called me last night to let me know she was doing very well and assured me she’d be in good hands with the new doctor she’ll have today. I’ll know more once they do her bloodwork today and her current vet calls. They anticipate her coming home Tuesday.

I miss my little girl. I keep turning around to look for her, or calling her name to come with me. She’s just not there. I go to bed and turn on a video on my phone and she doesn’t come running to lay in front of my face to block my view… It was hard to sleep last night…

I talked to my family and they all think I should get her a friend. I always saw Zucca as a loner, but… She’s fragile. I’m lucky I could “afford” this round of hospitalization at all. While I hope she comes out of this in as good of a shape as she can be, that doesn’t change that she’s a very fragile little thing. I think a friend to be with her when I can’t is probably the best thing I can do for her right now. And for me…

Final Thoughts

Life just keeps throwing curveballs, but we’re getting through it. The book is still on course for an October release. A two month pre-order window might be a bit tight, but I’m honestly not even expecting any orders. Maybe once its fully in the wild we can start getting them. We shall see!

Until next time!
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