Saturday Salutations

Henlo dudes... yep this is supposed to be a thirsty thursday but for those of you who have been watching the news, there was some crazy fires happening thursday in Colorado. I'll save the rest for life update, sorry this is late nonetheless. I'm dual fisting coffee and water right now.

Monster Haven

She's all off to copy edit. MH1 should be coming back from proofread soon and arts are underway. Soooo excited for these covers, can't wait to share them!

Prison World: Earth

Yep, it's the new year so it's time to start up a new project! (two new projects actually) Prison World: Earth will be a gamelit, urban fantasy, mystery series and here's the first stab at the blurb, just for you!

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Find the exile, prevent dimensional war, save the worlds. No big deal, right?

Maeve Gunnerson wanted to be a journalist in Washington, not a bar tender in Roanoke, Virginia, trapped between highways to nowhere. What she didn’t know was that she’d end up being much more the night she intervened in a bar fight between galactic beings.

Now, Maeve is the first human to have their spirit unlocked by a denizen of Overworld, the space-faring utopia built by thousands of species from hundreds of diverse worlds who wield science so advanced that to Maeve it’s like magic. But with her new power comes a desperate request: find the missing exile, a Gryffin named Zylan, and save Overworld from a war unlike the universe has ever seen.

Find a Gryffin in a sea of humans, not hard, right? But when Zylan was sentenced to Prison World: Earth, they were stripped of their power and transformed to blend in. The missing exile could be anyone in the city, many of whom have dark secrets of their own to protect from Maeve’s prying.

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You'll start seeing chapters for this late March.

Tower Climber.... something.... something....

I don't know what to call this one yet and it's in a primordial phase. There's lots of ideas flying around and I think I have the concept nailed down. I'm writing blurbs and one pagers today for all the projects I'm kicking off this year so, this one is next!

You should start seeing chapters for this mid-February.

Bastion Academy

There is a plan for book 4 this year, but it will be after books 1 and 2 of the new climber series. I'm predicting Bastion 4 will start hitting sometime late summer or early fall, but it's super hard to tell right now and guess that far out.

Zero.Hero

For those of you still hanging on to a hope, yes, we do plan on wrapping up the Zero.Hero trilogy sometime this year or very early next year. I have a nice big bang of a finish planned that'll be superhero-y, with lots of action and tons of college-girl fun.

I wouldn't put money on any of those chapters coming out this year.

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Tomorrow I'll be doing a big planning push for 2022 and so next thursday I'll be able to reveal the rough schedule for all these deploying to patreon. Have a wonderful new year my dudes, and make the most of in however you want.

~ J.D. Astra

Life Update

On Thursday, 12/30, fires ripped through Colorado in my area and destroyed many homes and businesses. It's horrifying, and heart-breaking. I have been spending some time prepping donations, finding charities and shelters that need my money and time, and just taking a moment to recognize this serious loss in my community, and the role I can play in healing it. For that reason, the next few days will be a little slow as I shift priorities from work to community to help out.

I'm over a month sober now (hooray!) and feeling really good about it. I'm so grateful I decided to make this commitment to myself. I don't want to get too soppy, so, moving on.

The dog is showing reasonable improvement and we've started taking her back upstairs for sleep now (yay no more blow up mattress in the living room!). I'm so grateful for her improvement, too. I hope it lasts and she can have a great life.

This is getting a bit long winded, so I'll peace out. Stay safe, be generous, be kind, be human. Later my dudes.

~ Jess