We've done it, folks. 

All physical goodies — books, bookmarks, prints, stickers, key chains, etc — have been sent out and, as of me writing this, most have already arrived at their forever homes! Some of those international packages do not have active tracking but a good chunk of you have either shared pictures of your loot or told me that the package has arrived, and that is incredibly appreciated. On that front:

This project is getting ready to close.

I'll fire off one more reminder around the beginning of August, just in case.

And, that's it. 

It's over. That's a wrap.

Thank you, everyone, for being such a killer audience.

I'M NEVER FAR....

I will be back for this year's Book Bazaar with Below the Blue Circuits: a queer, sci-fi horror set in the 1970s. If you enjoyed Monitored Activity's treatment, I highly recommend giving my new project a follow! 

And it's also a-okay if you don't. Thank you for your service. You're good to go.

Until next time.

— Mitch

Why hey there Fairy friends and fiends! I have some quick updates on Fairy Seasons for ya!

Okay, so, I finished the print layout for the book. It's processing in Ingram right now. Hopefully there's nothing bad with it, but if so, I'll fix it and all that fun stuff. So far, the print cost is way more decent than I thought. And that's nice.

Some fun numbers for ya'll-
Page count: 268
Word count: 56,113
Stories: 11
Poems 32
Illustrations, photography, and more: ???? (I don't feel like counting them all, but it's a good amount)
Size: 6x9

Now, with the ebooks, there will be a few doodles that might not make it in. Mostly, there's just a couple little things that might not work as well (side border design things). However, all the main doodles, photos, and full art will be just fine. It's going to be an easy, but tedious task that I've done enough by now.

Shout out to TBB peeps mention Affinity. My partner ended his adobe subscription (which I am very happy about). However, I was like "Oh...Oh no!" Now I had to figure something else out for layout stuff. I was messing with Scribus. It's not bad. It's great, but it just felt so much more tedious, so I was stalling. I got way further way faster on Affinity. And no, I did not use an AI stuff because like...ew. No thanks. I know how to do the things. I don't need that stuff to mess everything all up. I can do that by myself.

I still have some designing to do for the Make-A-Fairy Cards. I decided to give them TTRPG-ready stats. Yes, it'll generally be for dnd, but I hope conversion for other TTRPG things will work just fine. For further explanation of their abilities (instead of just naming their abilities), I'll have companion PDFs made, too. I have a place I'll be ordering from (different from where I'm getting prints made). I'll get that done by the end of the month.

All the stickers are printed, by the way. I also have a printer and have found some excellent paper for the prints (Okay, well, what I think is excellent paper, A-Sub)! However, my printer can be real nasty with lines when it comes to the Make-A-Fairies. So, I'll be ordering those from the wonderful Prints&Repeat. I love working with local businesses, and they've always printed high-quality stuff. A lot of my vendoring prints have come from them.

Anyways, that's all for now. I don't want to get too ranty. And I'm tired. I've been on the computer all weekend, so I'm logging off for a bit while I work on some things.

Fairy Blessing to you all!

The end is within reach!

There's more to write, but I am now on track to send the book off for editing next month.

I wish I could share a few chapters here, but of course, there's just too many spoilers in this third book if you haven't read #1 and #2.

Instead, I can share that I've cut a section out of the story. I'm describing this as a positive thing, and here's why: I made the cut because certain events had to be shown from a different POV (as in, not from Kilek's POV, since he wasn't there as a witness or participant).

Now for the positive part, lol.

Rather than have only one section from all three books use a POV other than Kilek's, I've simply cut this bit - and it'll end up a (long) short story for me to send to you all as a Backerkit exclusive :)

I'll also note that snipping out these events from the main story won't interfere with the overall conclusion to the series, hence why the section is now placed outside Dark Fang.

Okay, next update should have a release window!

Ashley