If you don't give a damn about me/my woes/my other fictions, chapter four of The White Knight will be up... uh, now. So just push the back button and read it. Then come back if you want. Or don't. I'm chill like that. Further chapters will be updated daily at 9:00 am EST going forward. I have a several chapter backlog that I'm editing and scheduling in with the handy dandy 'schedule your fiction' thing, so there should not be any substantive interruptions.

That all said, I'll start with an apology, which... yeah. Going on four years since the second book in the series, I've grown to fully empathize with George R.R. Martin over time. Once you stop working on something, it becomes very hard to actually come back to it, at least for me. And with all my fun and exciting, uh... I'm going to go with 'mental health issues' it can become difficult to do the right thing, even if it is staring you right in the face.

I sat back down to finish the third book several months ago, it went well, then I lost a job I enjoyed very much and suddenly I didn't want to do anything. I stopped talking to friends and family, stopped leaving the house, most definitely stopped working. I'm lucky to have a partner in life who takes the worst of my behavior in stride, and newly medicated I'm back to finish what I've started, in more ways than one.

Which brings me to scheduling.

You may have (almost certainly did not) notice that I have two new fictions posted. While this seems insane given that I haven't even finished the stuff I'm working on, part of my problem is that I don't finish the stuff I'm working on. I have, and I'm not even joking about this, roughly ~500,000 words of fiction in various unfinished states on my PC. So I've decided that I'm going to start posting some of what I've worked on in the last four years on a regular schedule, both to keep my honest, and because gosh darnit I like some of this stuff.

The good news is that none of this will delay the story you're currently looking at. TWK is my daily project until it is finished (which thank god is at a grand total of ~6 chapters remaining). The others are all in various states of completion, but each has ~15-20 chapters (so most of a book) already written out. I've decided to publish these on a slower schedule in order to give me breathing room to add to them, while allowing me to still get in my chapter a day for the project I'm focusing on.

So what does this mean for you the reader?

My current schedule of works is as follows:

The White Knight - Publishes daily at 9:00am EST. This will continue until the book is done. After that I will reassess and it will continue either daily or every second day.

Blue Hills - Every Thurs/Sun at 6:00 EST

Relic - Weekly (Tues) at 6:00 EST

Points of Light - Bi-Daily. Duo-Daily? Bi-daily doesn't feel right, but I'm going with it. 6:00 EST (Are you sensing a pattern)

Lastly, and somewhat tangential to all of the above, I now have a Patreon. Or, I guess I will. I have to wait for it to approve. When it does, It will have a number of advance chapters for all of the above works. I'll include the link in the doobly-do of most chapters with a thank you, but this'll be the last time I draw attention to it. If you can afford it, it helps (I've been unemployed for three months and the Canadian EI system is a dink), but if you can't afford it send me a PM and I'll see what I can do.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programing.