or is it?
I think I’ve already stated it, but the book is done!
I had been publishing it in Vella, and that has not only been completed but has also been updated with fixes/changes/etc. Not that all of them are live as of this blog (5SEP2023)–Kindle’s like that, sitting on episodes for no apparent* reason–but they’re in the queue at least.
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As for Vella… I’m still weighing whether or not I will go that route again. I think the only way I “got away with it” this time is that the parts of were already written, it just needed to be
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*”Apparently”, because there’s really no explicit/sexual stuff (sorry to disappoint if that’s what you’re looking for). Or it just gets hung up on my fantasy-style names for things. Whatever. It’s a PITA either way.
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