Greetings fellow Pirates!!

Its been a while, I know. I’ve been working in overdrive at night to make sure I can get my manuscript into Inkshares’ hands by my self-imposed deadline of next month. They are so chill though, they really don’t give deadlines, just support. This is a wonderful platform, and I’m grateful to be member of it.

BUT I have something so amazing to show you. Last month I decided I wanted a change, and thought a new cover would be a good idea.  I enlisted a talented artist, Elizabeth Rupp, to design the book’s new cover. What do you think?

I think it looks amazing! Thank you Elizabeth!

So you ask, what does a dragon have to do with dinosaur paleontology? Pre-order The Pirates of Montana to find out!

No need for a fun dinosaur meme on this update. The Dragon Lizard will rise again!

Excelsior,

Erin

Argh!

Well, a bit of a stacked workload showed up on the creative side as well as in real life - I have my own shop in a tourist town, and Summer does bring them in - which means we missed on the pre-order deadline this time out.  Spit.  I trust all the brilliant, kind, and no doubt sexy folks who did pre-order (Woo! to you) have been refunded and the band has been cancelled.

But never mind that!  I am continuing to write Farm Boy, just at a much slower pace than I started at.  The hazards of assuming trends of the past will continue into the future, eh?  When Summer cools and crowds ease I’ll be able to ramp up the writing here.  I’m also writing one play, directing another, and adding a bookstore to my shop, so at the very least it’s going to be fun.  And who knows?  Maybe even successful!

So missing the mark sucks, but isn’t the end.  I’m going to get this closer to a finished work, then return it to the pre-order stage once again, likely (HA!) in September.  I’ll need to sneak the writing in there before hockey season really gets going...

Thanks so much for following this project, and I’m looking forward to getting it finished for you.  Things are getting broken, and people are getting weird (or I might have that backwards).  The outside world is making a stand against the school, and that’s making for tough decisions within...

Erin