Dear humans,

Now that we have regaled you with our most creative subject, we're writing you this very brief letter to inform you the female is not dead yet.

Hooray!

Please enjoy this picture of me helping the female use Declan. The female has settled on Declan. His new case arrived today. It's marbled red and gold, and she quite likes it, although someone needs to teach them about how high resolution images work. It's prettier in the sales pictures, but she still likes it.

Read: it protects him and it's a decent enough cover. You get what you pay for. It was cheap.

Cheap case, ridiculously expensive laptop. If that doesn't say something about human nature, I don't know what does, humans!

(To be fair, outside of the unfortunate printing issue with the cover not using a high enough resolution image for the size of the case, it does the job it was purchased for: protecting the exterior case of the laptop from scuffing. Full points for doing its purpose.)

The female has resumed life as an author. She's only averaging around 2,000 words a day right now. She needs to be closer to 4,000 words a day to catch up.

She's not panicking too much yet. (Yet.)

She has promised herself if she can write 10 days with 10k words per day (not necessarily consecutively) she will reward herself with a pretty cover. That will catch her up.

She is attempting this throughout June. Possibly again in July and August.

Yeah. That's basically what it's going to take for her to get caught up at this point.

2021 will be different. We are limiting her to maybe five preorders. Maybe. Whatever else gets published gets published, and if she does preorders outside of those five, it's only because she is waiting for an editorial slot and has added three months to the editor's estimate to make sure she doesn't fall behind again.

14 releases in a year is too many.

(Sorry, humans. In 2021, expect maybe eight, and she will try to prioritize the older stuff to get it finished as much as she can while still paying the bills.)

If she accomplishes more, great. But she won't be working 15 hours a day trying to do it in 2021.

Eight hours a day will be the limit as soon as she survives this batch of books. (So, brace yourself for longer waits in the future, because this 15 hours a day thing is for the birds.)

Have a great day, humans!

~The Furred & Frond Management