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Howdy backers,


I've got the final manuscript Interloper in the layout process and expect to go to print in late February. PDF coming for you to peruse shortly. 

See y'all soon,
Joel Hines

Thanks a lot for your patience on Interloper, I wanted to let you know that the draft is completed and has been sent to the editor. Finally! I’ll be charging credit cards for shipping and late pledges shortly and delivery should happen February-March.

 My apologies for the lack of communication between updates, I prefer to keep you in the loop more than I have been this project. Frankly the issue that came up is that I was hit with one of the worst cases of writers block I've ever experienced on Interloper, after it turned out I needed to restructure the initial draft. My estimates on the time required was constantly inaccurate and I found myself stuck in a cycle of not putting out an update because I hadn't made expected progress and felt I was almost to the point of wrapping it up to pass by that expected deadline and feel the stress about being yet further behind which slowed my pace further and made me resist putting out another update about delays without concrete advancement in the process. I really try to maintain a higher level of service to backers of my stuff like as in past projects and will keep in touch as we get this wrapped and shipped out. Whenever I've published anyone else's work I've made sure that they were entirely wrapped with a completed draft prior to crowdfunding because it's the easiest thing to promise future creative work but the process isn't mechanistic and life happens, blocks show up and having a thousand or two backers waiting eagerly for something you've promised adds a sharp edge to the writing of a project. 

I knew this but thought that this time, I'd be the exception. I was not, and I'll be holding myself to the same standard of having a content completed editor review ready draft ready for all future projects. I've been around and releasing stuff long enough to not make mistakes like that still. But on the whole I'm really excited about Interloper's approaching production and getting into your hands now that the choke point has been removed. Editing should be wrapped by end of the month and we'll go into layout by end of December. Depending on Jostens our printers time frame we're looking at a February- March delivery. I'll be reaching out again in January when I've got the timeline firmed up and to let you know we're locking addresses. Thanks for your support and I hope y'all do some quality gaming over the holiday season with good company.

See ya soon,

Joel