May Newsflash

Long time no... write. I've had a pretty stunning few weeks and I'm still processing it all. For one thing in mid-April I had a major (non-worrying, much-needed) surgery and spent a bunch of time in bed watching What We Do in the Shadows. For another, once I had the brain for it but was still in physical recovery I spent a LOT of time racing towards the end of my first draft of Noblesse Oblige.

And can I tell you a secret? That not even my editor knows yet because she's busy editing the penultimate two chapters?

IT'S DONE.

The final chapter is ready for editing. And once I've done the revisions for the final three chapters, THEN it will be time to go to beta testing.

I'm so pleased. It's 100,000 words of gothic drama, claustrophobia, and clandestine romance with people who are distinct bad ideas (and, if I'm honest, a lot of smut), and I'm really, really proud of it.

My wife Fay has played through the full thing three times and gave me invaluable feedback to whip it into shape before it goes out to the wider world; in only one of the playthroughs was there a gamebreaking bug so I was pleasantly surprised by that.

So now it's just a case of getting those edits done. While I wait for them, I'll be turning my attention back to Royal Affairs, and the May bonus content for Patreon, carrying on with recovery, and getting into being back at my day job.

Speaking of Royal Affairs, if you're on the Sneak Preview tier you'll have seen that the first half of Chapter 5 is up! As part of my Chapters 7-8 edits, I'm going to be doing some fairly significant reworks to some Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 content, mostly to do with Trevelyan and beefing up what the MC knows about their role in the suffrage movement. So I'm looking forward to revisiting that and sharing the results.

Finally, unrelated to my work but extremely related to me: my wife's Heart's Choice game, Heart of Battle, where you can find love as a gladiator in a terrible fighting pit, is out in beta! It's heartwrenching, tense, action-packed, and hot. I love it so much! You can sign up for beta testing here and wishlist it on Steam here!

Thank you for reading and I hope you're having a decent Monday. Take care!