You may have noticed that things have been a little quieter around here this past year. Your intrepid authors have been dealing with home repair crises (if anyone breathes the word “plumbing” in KD’s vicinity, she’ll send the piranhas after you). Also, family crises, health crises, the occasional good thing that doesn’t involve our computer keyboards, and… *gestures wildly* you know, all that distracting stuff that keeps happening in the rest of the world.
The more Life happens outside our heads, the harder it is to get into our heads and make the stories happen.
So it’s a wonder that we’re all still here and cracking jokes, but we are. And occasionally we’re even writing stuff!
In 2023, we released one long(er) work of fiction for sale as an ebook, my own Voice of the Sea, featuring a post-fossil-fuel world, clashing worldviews, and a certain undersea fairy tale. Oh, and lots of ocean descriptions, just because I can. (Any guesses as to which ocean?)
Kit kept the lights on at TDP the rest of the year by releasing a fantasy serial, Across Worlds with You. Look for the latest installment, number 8, next week!
Erin has been writing (and publishing!) poetry elsewhere, and KD did NaNoWriMo for the first time in…a while…so creative things are happening — just not always things that are measurable in TDP publications.
Thanks for hanging in there with the four of us. We’ll be here, plugging away, one page at a time. After all, that’s the only way to write a story.
Thanks for the mention! Yeah, we’ve been a bit distracted. 😉 Hopefully this year we’ll be able to get a bit more focused.