You'll be able to get an audiobook of both volume 1 and volume 2 in the campaign, plus, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before is up for a major award from The British Fantasy Society!
First of all: thank you all for your patience and support once again. As a thank you for waiting so long, I wanted to share a fun fact about Nate & Izzy that isn’t obvious in this short little story: they’re actually both Australian!
Originally we were just basing them out of a Generic American City, but the more I worked with Nate, the more obvious it felt that they would hail from the Land Down Under. This decision was made after the main story went to print though, but the bonus chapter and any future work with these two will leave a little more space to better explore that part of their characters. Please imagine Nate throwing the word “mate” around and that already helps lol
Now for other news…
Somehow, in the midst of everything else, I ended up also getting carpal tunnel in my drawing hand. Because of course I did. So, I needed to get a second surgery a couple weeks ago to fix that.
The bad news? I’m now dealing with healing from surgeries on both my right foot AND my right hand. I’m awfully lopsided :(
The good news: once my hand is recovered, I’ll never get carpal tunnel again! I can draw Forever………
In the meantime, I’m working with a physical (occupational) therapist to make sure my hand heals correctly. I’ve started practicing drawing a little bit at a time as part of that therapy, but for the time being my hand is still too weak to reliably draw the way I need to to finish the comic. But rest assured, it hasn’t been forgotten about!
A reunion with old friends... fun fact #2: Nate is hella jealous of Kiauna's tattoos; he's always wanted some himself, but being an assassin, it's not smart to have too many identifying body markings...
It's always fun getting to do close ups of fingernails and eyes
Something has Nate absolutely *pissed*
We have had some other campaigns going on in the background while I’m recovering. This is possible because my co-writer, Lee, has been hard at work drawing designs for enamel pins! Her style is pretty different from mine, but if you’re curious and would like to continue to support us during my recovery, feel free to share those projects as they come :)
The Baa-venturers campaign is actually going on right now until September 17th. The banners below are clickable and will take you right to the campaign if you’re interested :>
Thank you all again, truly. Your support means everything to us 💙
I just wanted to update all the people in this campaign to thank you for bringing Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back to life. And, to let you know the first anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before is now an audiobook, narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal!
I'll be busy uploading the audiobook to places like Audible, Chirp, Audiobooks.com, and more very soon.
B U T... if you want to get a copy directly from me (and possibly sooner, as audiobooks take a while to distribute), there's a way! Even better, Mary Robinette Kowal will once again step into the recording booth in our next campaign to record Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back! It starts September 10, and you can CLICK HERE to make sure you get alerted when it starts! During the campaign, you'll be able to get an audiobook of both volume 1 and volume 2, so what are you waiting for?
If you want even more physical or eBooks, then may I also point you toward our Year 5 Part 2 campaign, starting October 29th! I'll start posting author interviews in early September, so you can get a glimpse at what goes into these books!
I received a printed proof video at the beginning of July, and all the extra time it took to get everything squared away with the printer looks to have been worth it.
Now, I am just waiting for them to cross an ocean.
Seriously, I'm so sorry.
