updates and a brief hiatus

I had planned to get to 80,000 words of DRAGONSKULL: FURY OF THE BARBARIANS by the end of this week, but it didn’t quite work out that way.

I don’t usually talk about anything personal on the Internet ever for any reason, but I’ll make my one exception for 2022.

My grandmother died this week. She was, beyond all doubt, the kindest person I’ve ever known, and probably the kindest person I will ever meet, even if I live as long as she did (which wasn’t quite a hundred, but pretty close). But she has left this defective world for the better one prepared for us by Jesus.

As it happens, I was thinking about her when I got the news – I was rushing to get some stuff done so I would not be late for our regular phone call time.

So it is sad, but not a bitter or an angry sadness.

On a related topic, as well all know, there is a bit of awkward dark comedy that happens every time someone dies. We’ve all been in variations of conversations like this.

SUPERVISOR: I am very sorry for your loss, and I’ll go approve your time off for the funeral.

EMPLOYEE: Thank you.

SUPERVISOR: Again, very sorry for your loss.

(long, awkward pause)

SUPERVISOR: (clears throat, fidgets a bit) Though…that one project, we do really kind of need it done at some point, and while I am very sorry for your loss, I do sort of need to know when you might expect to have that project, you know, done, so if you could kind of guess towards an ETA…

Let us spare ourselves that awkward conversation!

Basically, everything I’m working on is getting pushed back a month. DRAGONSKULL: FURY OF THE BARBARIANS is about 70% done, but I think that will be out in October instead of September. So, barring unexpected developments, I think the rest of the year will look like this for books:

September: nothing

October: DRAGONSKULL: FURY OF THE BARBARIANS

November: CLOAK OF MASKS

December: SILENT ORDER: WRECK HAND

Anyway, I will be mostly offline until about September 16th. If you really need to get ahold of me, send a message to jmcontact@jonathanmoeller.com, but there might be a delay of a few days in getting an answer.

-JM