Mar 14, 2016

So ... been a while since my last update, or any other activity here. I need to apologize for vanishing for so long. The last six months or so have been ... "interesting." Events in those six months include, but are not limited to:

• My car’s engine blowing up, me being unable to get a $4,000 loan to replace it, having my hours at work cut to 7/week due to being unable to take deliveries without my car, not having enough money to make the next car payment, and having to let it be repossessed.
• Needing to borrow money from family to keep paying the rent, and coming within five days of being evicted anyway.
• The store where I work getting a company car and the manager letting me use it for deliveries in the nick of time.
• Finally saving up enough money to buy a bike so I can at least get around without pestering people for rides.
• The bike getting stolen while I was at work two weeks after I bought it, sending me back to getting rides to and from work.
• Finally getting another bike at a discounted price because it had been returned ... and discovering that its front wheel is bent. Managed to get the wheel replaced, and the bike hasn’t been stolen ... yet.
• Nearly getting run over multiple times while biking to work and back home, the latest of which was a car speeding at 40 miles per hour and running a stop sign, and would’ve killed me if I hadn’t spotted it in time. And the driver had the balls to yell "f*** you" at me when I got pissed off.
• Immediately after that, the bike’s chain pops off before I get home. I can’t get it back on, so I walk home and take the wheel off in the morning to put the chain back on.
• While biking to work yesterday, the chain pops off again. Need to screw around with the rear wheel again to try to tighten the chain enough for it to stay on. Might end up needing to take one of the links out.
• Over the past few months, the store stays busy enough that I’m usually kept there three or four hours past the end of my shift, resulting in me getting home around midnight or later, going to bed, then repeating the cycle all over again. The extra money’s great, it helps keep the rent paid, but the work-sleep-work cycle sucks time away from everything else, like writing and promoting my books.

But as a result of all of this, plus the failure of the Project Revenant campaign, I think I sank into a bit of a depression. Pretty much gave up on everything. Got almost nothing at all done, aside from the latest chapter of Harbinger, and that was a couple of months ago. Now I’m trying to pull myself together, get off my ass, and get back to writing and promoting ... as much as I can squeeze into what little free time I have, at least.

So ... what now? Well, I’ll do what I’ve always done before ... pick myself up and keep trying. I’ll also keep working on Uncharted Territory whenever I can, as well as my other works in progress, Harbinger and Freelancers. And I’ll be doing everything I can think of to promote the book that was published a few months ago, Chaser. (Speaking of which, if anyone would like a free review copy in exchange for posting a review on its Amazon page, let me know and I’ll send you one.)

And I’ll just see how things go from here.

Keep moving forward.