Girlspy
Added 2023-11-03 10:21:28 +0000 UTCPeople sometimes write and ask if I have a PDF of a standalone book I did in 2003 (2003!) called "Girlspy". I tell them I will "dig it out". I have just dug it out for you. I apologise if anything in this book offends modern sensibilities. i am too scared to look inside it to find out. Link at the bottom of the post.
The new Steeple PDF will be up on Monday - the penultimate issue, alas. Dark Horse passed on volume four, so after issue 20 it will be time to move on. While this Patreon sustains the daily production of webcomics (thank you very much), I rely on print royalties as well, and I've produced a lot of work now - a few hundred pages of Steeple and Solver - that hasn't been printed. I think Solver is some of my best work and it's on a website in an age when no one looks at websites any more and that's it. I'm very grateful to have an audience at all, but without my work going outside the little webcomics channel, it gets much harder to sustain and build it.
I don't have the energy to do self-publishing the way I did back when Girlspy came out but it is time to rethink my approach. I've had to do this several times over the last 20 years - artistically, business-wise. If you tackle it early enough, it presents an opportunity rather than a crisis. Alongside that, all I can do is try to make sure the work is good. I hope it still is.
