Hi All!
This is an update to the newsletter. And yup, the fans who get the newsletter get all news first. If you want to receive the NL you go the home page here and scroll down to the newsletter sign up box and you sign up, click all the boxes (I’m never gonna use the stuff they ask for but I can’t get the built in doohickies to go away.) Then go to your email and find the email asking “Do you want to receive this thing to your feed?” letter and say yes. NOTE: your particular system might send it to the spam. You know, because all the different AI platforms are secretly at war with each other and with us humans and they like to make things difficult for us. Yes it is the electronic apocalypse and the four horsemen are Email, Spoofs, Robocallers, and Spam.
Yes. That was a joke. Don’t send me the scripture. I already know it.
Oh — you know this baby is out as an e-book, right? JUNKYARD BARGAIN! Check it out! (Before you ask. No paper at this time.)
The fans on the Jane Yellowrock and Faith Hunter’s Worlds Discussion Group on FaceBook ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/753410901426312 ) have named themselves. They are Clan Yellowrock. If you want to join the FB group, be sure to answer the questions to prove you are a real fan and not a robot! Anyway, having successfully navigated naming themselves, they have asked for merch, swag, all things Clan Yellowrock.
This merch / swag request presents me with an interesting conundrum and opportunity to play! Please note, I will try and NOT contribute to the non-biodegradable landfill problem, so I’ll be picky in what I offer.
Since I never designed a Mithran crest for Clan Yellowrock (only for the DQ), my merch guy (hereinafter named Merch Master) and I have an opportunity to make a bunch of you happy. So …
Merch Master is going to design a Clan Yellowrock crest—original art that can be applied to many things Jane. So far we have in discussion: Cuffs, barrettes, belt flasks, wrap flasks, 2 different styles of bags/pouches—think medicine bags or dice bags or bags for attending a renaissance faire or Con and carrying your gold (ahem, cash or credit card). Hopefully, for the holiday season this year, before December 1. Fingers crossed.
Keychains might follow early next year along with some other smaller items, but that is something that will need a little development. Shirts are easy enough to add on as well but may not be ready for Christmas. Merch Master and I are talking Tees, keychains, and mugs for next year. Yes, Jane tea mugs—if we can find the site or artisan to make them.
Watch the newsletters and my website for more info.
The mention of the website leads me to the Facebook / social media debacle. The social media situation is imploding so, going forward, this is the plan (subject to change at a whim or the vagaries of life and the electronic world we live in). I have now begun using my website blog several times a week to update fans and readers on … stuff. Didn’t that sound writerly? Stuff. It encompasses so much! You can subscribe to the blog here: http://www.faithhunter.net/ and click on the little orange square that says RSS. Or you can just (follow what I say here) via the author page on FB https://www.facebook.com/faith.hunter/ where I’ll announce each post.
Currently I am planning three posts a week: Once a week, I will be highlighting non-Faith things: new books, anthos, authors, etc. Once a week I’ll update the monthly newsletter (that newsletter that the subscribers get first) and my book stuff. Forinstance I’ll soon be highlighting two of my own projects and maybe post a snippet from Dirty Deeds 2! And once a week I’ll be addressing personal life, publishing life, and (takes a deep breath) answering questions that I will take from FB. Yeah. That’s terrifying.
My PR people (looking at Mud) have been after me to do this all along, and I have put it off forever. Now seems like a great time.
For the personal stuff: these are my two newest dwarf trees!!!!
Hubs is rolling his eyes because I constantly remake my small planting area. Early this week we walked around the block and I pointed out houses that had been refreshed for the season.
Me: See that pop of orange color? I’d have used real flowers but the plastic won’t need watering so I get it. And see the pretty cushions on the porch bench? They bring the door, the planters, and the bench together. And see how those people cut back all the overgrowth? Now you can see the house. And look over there! see all the Barbies painted as zombies? And the full sized body bag they are pulling? That’s Gulliver’s Travels to Zombie-land.
Hubs. You are not decorating for Halloween.
Me: No. But I want new trees planted.
Hubs. Fine.
Me: And that bush needs to be moved.
Hubs: Fine.
He isn’t happy. But compromise is great thing. I get my planting and he doesn’t have to see Barbies marching across my garden beds. WIN!
Happy opening to November!
Faith