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Thank you so much for subscribing Amour!! I'll echo your words and say that it IS positive reinforcement, and I very much appreciate it. I hope you enjoy TCOYH and if it's your cup of tea. It's got a few naughty demons, but hopefully it will still entertain <3 <3
If I can read Milton, I can read ANYTHING, but I think I'm actually going to enjoy reading TCOYH. I even enjoy Milton a little bit. Very sympathetic character is his Satan!
A Milton survivor, hehe. Can't say I've had the "pleasure", but perhaps one day!
Ehh... reading the work of avouched Puritans is more of a "so I can say I lived to tell the plan" prospect than a "what a ride!" prospect-- the best part about Paradise Lost is the fact that he accidentally makes Satan kinda cool. There are a few good lines, though. I actually quoted him in Free Love, I think.
Free Will has officially crossed the (100k word) Rubicon with 10 days left to go! 🍾 Can't wait for Valentine's Day! Now back to that spicy scene I was writing. If anyone needs me, I'll be fanning myself. 🤭
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Because this is apparently my idea of a good time, I've just spent a day going back through episodes 1-60 of Free Love and finding DOZENS of little effing mistakes and writing tics and rough patches and polishing them up, and I'll keep working on the rest of it. It's hardly the first time I've done this process, and yet every SINGLE time, I find some mistake I've apparently overlooked a dozen times--this is why it's hard to edit your own work. Your brain assumes you did it right the first time and your eyes play along... this is just to say that if you go back and re-read, it should be slightly better than the first time you read it. I feel so bad for the reader named "Hello" who was reading like... 8 chapters ahead of my editing and I could NOT catch up to fix things before they read them, lol. Next time will be better, Hello!
In Other News, on Friday, I sent Rowein the design ideas for the new Free Love cover. There are a couple of commissions ahead of me in line, but the new cover is gestating now... I seriously still cannot believe I was able to get in the line AT ALL... she's such a goddess! If you're curious about the process, I send her the images I searched up as inspiration while I was writing, all labeled... "A's hair cut"... "G's body"... "G's hair color"... "A's face..." and then I make a VERY rough sketch of the layout I have in mind. The sketch is one of those opportunities to learn through suffering-- imagine sending an Art Goddess your pitiful sketch. If it was translated into words, it would read like "hE us a bOy. HE us BiG. THEr uS A nutHer boy, tO. He Is noT bIg. He HAs LuNg rED hAre. ThE BIg bOy lIKeS tHe UthEr bOy! HE hoLDs a DoOr." [Read that in the voice of Dug from Up!] My ego is thoroughly checked right now, I promise you.
In Other News, on Friday, I sent Rowein the design ideas for the new Free Love cover. There are a couple of commissions ahead of me in line, but the new cover is gestating now... I seriously still cannot believe I was able to get in the line AT ALL... she's such a goddess! If you're curious about the process, I send her the images I searched up as inspiration while I was writing, all labeled... "A's hair cut"... "G's body"... "G's hair color"... "A's face..." and then I make a VERY rough sketch of the layout I have in mind. The sketch is one of those opportunities to learn through suffering-- imagine sending an Art Goddess your pitiful sketch. If it was translated into words, it would read like "hE us a bOy. HE us BiG. THEr uS A nutHer boy, tO. He Is noT bIg. He HAs LuNg rED hAre. ThE BIg bOy lIKeS tHe UthEr bOy! HE hoLDs a DoOr." [Read that in the voice of Dug from Up!] My ego is thoroughly checked right now, I promise you.
Oh, hi! So, just a quick note to tell you that I got the cover art for Free Will today from Rowein and it was so perfect that I absotively, posilutely COULD NOT wait to share it, so I went ahead and set up Free Will. I haven't posted any new pieces of the story, and I won't until the launch on Valentine's Day/Galentine's Day, but trust me, the art is enough to keep you entertained for a while. You should head over and take a deep, long, thirsty look. Free Love-rs, I am extra excited to tell you that I have commissioned Rowein to make a new coordinating cover for Free Love as well. I don't have a date for that yet, but I'll keep you posted. I'm so thrilled that Rowein agreed to bring Will and Brent to life for me, and I can't WAIT to see her take on Gabriel and Alex. If you have a favorite scene from Free Love that you think would make a great new cover, share your idea with me ASAP! I'm sending Rowein some design ideas this weekend, and I'm open to suggestions!
Just for funsies, here's a picture from the real-estate listing that inspired Gabriel & Alex's new home... built in 1800, a steal at 875k.
Will you look at this?? While writing the Lagniappe scene last week, I researched Maryland fossil sites and sent Alex and Ana to Calvert Beach for fossil hunting, and then just now I saw this story on the national news! A 9 year old girl found a massive megalodon tooth (hugemungous extinct shark whose jaws you could stand upright in) at CALVERT BEACH. Can you imagine 11.5 y/o Alex actually finding a megalodon tooth while looking around for fossils with his sister???? He'd have been so so so happy. And the little girl is so cute. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/us/maryland-girl-finds-shark-tooth-scn-trnd/index.html
The sea is such a scary but beautiful place
True, but a little less scary than it must have been when megalodons were around!
While I'm sharing inspo pics... How about my original Alex face inspo pic? I mean... damn.
Muahahaha yesssssssssss
Right??
A hot and caring, lovable guy :P
