GET OUT OF JAIL FREE JULY 2023 UPDATES

My boss, hard at work

Greetings, all! I hope the sum, sum, summertime is finding you in good health, secure in whatever vocation you toil at, and that you are having fun out in the world or in air-conditioned comfort. It has been some time since I last wrote with some creative updates, and I have a few to share with you. 

Music 

Dark Prairie Atmospherics Collective Vol. 2 continues Slowly, oh so slowly, this is getting pieced together. I hope by Autumn we'll have some spooky sounds to accompany the season. 

Other Music News 

I may be putting something together this weekend for release later this month! 

Writing 

A Submission 

I have a submission I am pretty proud of sitting in the queue, I will know whether it cuts the mustard in a few months (probably more, the place I submitted to gets a lot of quality stuff). I think this has a better shot than other pieces I've lobbed at them due to the nature of the piece (something fictional but done as non-fiction if that makes sense.) I can't wait for people to read it whether it gets accepted or not. 

More writing 

There is a project I started in mid-May that I am working on that will be a short (maybe a dozen flash pieces) collection that uses music as the impetus. I am aiming to complete this by the end of the Summer, time permitting, with the aim of self-publishing it at the end of the year. 

Olde Wyathscope's Quarterly Concern 

 Year 1 has now been sent to all of the subscribers, and I couldn't be more pleased with the response this has gotten. I am truly indebted to Mat Fitzsimmons for his hard work and patience with me as we got this weird thing assembled, printed and sent. Sending them in the mail was truly a rewarding bit of business for me, and hearing from readers who got what I was going for was incredibly satisfying. And a huge thanks as well to Nick Vasi and Mike Cavagnaro who have been good friends and encouraging of the weirdness that I put out there. 

Issues from year 1 are available individually or bundled - if you want them, info is at http://oldewyathscope.blogspot.com (and if you're on this email list, I will cut you a deal) 

Year 2 is completely written and I want to share a little bit of what is in store for Year 2 

New voices I have managed to secure some pieces by other folks for Year 2, and I think readers will be happy to see some unfamiliar faces delivering some truly out there content! 

New features Some new features are coming which I am very excited by - Correspondence, Opinion pieces, Poetry features, and more! 

My plan for Year 2 is to go a different route with subscriptions and getting content out to people. I don't know what form this is going to take quite yet, and I won't make a final decision until the content is ready to go - but I am hopeful that what I have planned will net more readers while not costing those readers more money. 

I will also be striving for a balance between written content available electronically, while making available deluxe, illustrated, bespoke physical copies with content unique to those editions. 

Magic Rabbit Press works coming soon! 

Sooner rather than later, I hope to start putting up for sale copies of Frayed Black Ribbon and Tattered Yellow Knots and the Magic Rabbit Press Annual 1. When they are printed and in hand I will post purchasing info! 

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Thank you for your support!