Hello everyone, and welcome to 2025!  I already tried releasing this update earlier this month, but I wasn't able, so I'm releasing this a little late in the month.  However, here it is.  So let's talk about a few things with my writing that you should know about.

1.  Video Blogs - I'm restarting Youtube and Rumble again.  The blocking forces are now clear, so I'm gonna go ahead and tackle this again.  However, unlike last time, I *WILL NOT* be running a set schedule.  That caused me too many problems and too much stress, and my life is already stressful and busy enough, so my goal is that, if I have content to post, I will post that and, if it's significant enough in volume, like posting a whole novel, or I have a bunch of back to back videos to post, I'll schedule them on my normal M-W-F rotation.  This also means that Short Story Fridays will not be returning.  Instead I will intermingle the stories I had set aside for that into the regular postings.

2.  AI Voices - I've recently come to a decision that some of you might cheer at this given how much you hated the AI voices I was using, I *WILL NOT* be using AI voices this time around.  For those of you who want to know the reasons, um, well, I asked God for advice on which AI voices to use.  He told me none.  I'm to read them myself.  Yes, that quaking of the ground you just felt was the shiver that went down my back when He told me that.  Mostly because I don't feel like I'm good enough to do this.  Yet He seems to think I am and even encouraged me to go forward with this, so I guess that's where we're going. lol.  So yeah, that's going to take me some time to put together, so give me a little time and I'll start posting those.

3.  Publishing Update - Amazon print editions are still a train wreck.  So I apologize for that.  The rest is fine.  I talked with God about that and He said that He'll handle sorting that out, so I'm hands off on it now until He gets everything fixed for me.  What's the ETA on that?  No idea.  He didn't tell me. ^_^  Also, for those of you who don't follow me on Social Media (look at the contact page on my website for links to everything) I posted an announcement earlier this month that "The Rise of Offworld", which is "After Offworld Book 3", the epilogue trilogy for "The Offworld Chronicles" that I released.  That's out now, completing the entire main series.  This includes not just the trilogy, but the 7 books of the original series as well for 10 books total.  For those of you unfamiliar with After Offworld, like I said it's an epilogue trilogy that covers the three primary groups of Offworld.  Namely, Simon's Team, the Dragons, and lastly the rest of Offworld.

4.  Events - My 2025 and 2026 event schedule is kinda empty right now.  The TLDR on that is that I was told not to do anything for 2025 (this came after I agreed to go to my friend's con, so I can't break that promise since it was made before the orders from God about conventions), and now I have a partial no-go for 2026.  Is that a bad thing?  Nope.  The short summary of that is, God pointed out that the conventions and big events that I was focusing on before are not working for me, so He's gonna send me to new locations that will have a better impact.  So I'm not totally blocked from doing events, just refocused.  More will come out as I find out exactly where He wants me to go.  Once I know, I'll let you know.

5.  Magefall Progress - Right now Magefall is still a WIP.  Books 1 and 2 are roughed out, but up until recently I haven't had time to work on it more than notes and the initial rough draft.  I'm hoping for some time soon to get deeper into this.  But we will see.  Either way, it's still in motion.  The big LOL is, it's going to be a wild and fun ride because I have a LOT of really great ideas, vignettes, and more.  I also ended up, completely unintentionally, creating 3 spinoff novelettes that I plan to release.  The current working titles are, "A Quester's Journey", "The Tower of Endless Quests", and "The Armchair Empire".  These books, unlike Magefall itself, will be on a more serious tone.  They will live and exist inside of the Magefall, but will have a more action/adventure slant to them, just like traditional fantasy novels will.  There will be more released on these books as I further flesh them out.

Anyhow, that's all for this update.  I'll see you guys again in February.