Author: E.J. Lowell

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Belated October Update – NaNo NaNo

Howdy, folks!

In spite of life continuing to happen between the last update and this one, I managed to plot out a book. And build the local world around which the story takes place. Is this update mainly to inform everyone that I am, in fact, doing the NaNo? Yes. Yes it is.

NaNo – for clarity – being short for NaNoWriMo, which is short for National Novel Writing Month, wherein the goal is to hit 50k (50,000) words – traditionally in the first draft of a new novel – before the end of November. I’ve participated 8 times (including this one) and actually completed… three? Which is not a great track record, truth be told. I did eventually complete all of the books I started in bygone years, but not necessarily in the same month. (Or year.)

“Belated” update because I probably should have made this update in October, but I was mega-focused on clothing construction, architecture, local flora and fauna, climate, religion, politics, and barbeque – all sorts of other things that one can talk about in worldbuilding but not in polite company. I am now 4600 words into my first draft and done with Chapter 01, which I knew going in was going to be the most difficult. Sometimes, one just has to buckle down and start pedaling to get up that hill. (I say, not actually being able to ride a bike.)

Also for some reason comments seem to be closed on my last post. I’m confused, it may just be something on my end, but if it isn’t I suspect I need to do something behind the curtain to fix it. I just don’t know what. If comments are enabled, assume I’ve since stumbled upon the solution by sheer coincidence.

What Am I Working On?

Urien of Escathir – The NaNo Project. Potentially the first book in a series that may or may not end up being called the Surveyors’ Guild Chronicles. We’ll see what happens first – the end of November or the end of the story. I have a suspicion 50k is going to be easy, this time around… knocking on wood and barring more life happening. My outline has at least twice as many scenes in the list as All’s Well in Asgard did, so it’s going to be a doozy, I just don’t know how much of a doozy. Chapter – and, incidentally, scene – One is almost 5k. If each scene ends up being a whole chapter long (I don’t think they will) and of similar length, this whole project is going to be something on the order of… an absolutely mind-boggling (for me) 520k words. I highly doubt it’ll be that long. I give you all of this math business in lieu of an elevator pitch because I’m still trying to figure out how to condense a plot that long. Let alone where to split the books, if I need to. First story in a new world and it’s… going some kind of way!

The Rest of Uthir – The world of Uthir is bigger than Urien’s little corner of it, and has a lot of history that one could potentially explore. I have a couple of ideas for stories, one of them more prominent in my mind than the others. The story of Nagoa the Ranger and his “bird” Aiwi in the Sasokoyu Stronghold Wars is probably the one I’ll end up writing after Urien’s story, because the setting was heavily inspired by ARK: Survival Evolved (a game/setting I feel very much at home in) except it contains magic instead of tech. So instead of people knocking your walls down with C4 and large therapods, one has to worry about people knocking down walls with fireballs… and large therapods. I’m a dinosaur nerd at heart and fitting big stompy bois into fantasy is a thing I wish to do. (Thanks to Keenan Taylor for blazing that trail with his anthologies. I like this genre Much.) After that… Ehh? I have a couple of characters that I might necromancy from my middle school attempt at novel writing to slap into a fantasy buddy cop type story, if I can find a plot for them. Ancient carnivorous astrologer-mages may be another thing I attempt, if I can find a plot. We’ll see what happens between now and then.

Grifters – Currently on hiatus due to Life and also NaNo. Scheduled to return… probably halfway into December, if not in the first week of January. That’s my current ETA. If I hit 50k before the end of NaNo I’ll pre-record some episodes and then flip-flop between working on finishing Urien’s story and continuing Grifters. Because I… like to make stuff. Or something.

That’s all from me, this month. The grind continues! The stories are taking shape. The troubles continue to require copious bonkage with spanners. Keep on keeping on.

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September Update – All of the Things

Howdy, folks! It’s uh… it’s been a while.

I did kind of expect to get lost in pre-production for a few things last year at this time, but I didn’t expect to fall off the face of the planet quite as thoroughly as I did. So you may be wondering…

What Happened?

So, September of last year we accidentally adopted a cat. His name is Cannoli, he’s (now) a little sweetheart with very sharp toes and a big voice, but when my brother brought him home a year ago it was because nobody expected him to last the night and he wanted to give the little bean a chance. That little cat said, “stomach surgery WHOMST?!” and proceeded to become… my problem. 😀 He’s a good problem to have. A lot of the last year has been taken up caring for the wee lad and trying to introduce him to the other – far more senior – felids of the house. With… mixed results, so far. It’s an ongoing project.

In November, I wrote my half of Iron (title WIP) – the next book in the Barbarians series. It will be a series, don’t worry, it’s just that Life Happened in the meantime. I think my dad was writing – or trying to write – the Wizard’s Cat at the same time? I don’t really remember.

In December, I finally got to the conclusion of the Dawnbreakers’ Saga, took about a month off to recover from that, and then started on my new Skyrim series – Grifters. It has a slightly different tone, and is a lot more simple to produce, this time. Which turned out to be a very good thing because…

Just after I started Grifters, Life Happened. Those of you who are more familiar with my dad’s works/blogs than I am already know that he was diagnosed with cancer. Since then, I’ve been focusing on the YouTube uploads while also doing my best to step up and do some of the things that dad usually does/did around the house. (Right at the moment his biggest priority is recovering – a priority I fully support.) I haven’t really had the brain space available to sit down and write something (that wasn’t scripts for Grifters, anyway) for a while, but I’ve been noodling away on things anyway. Trying to find stories to write.

It’s a weird thing, life happening. A lot has changed in a year and I’m not sure what kinds of stories I want to write, anymore. I know where I want to write them, but not what the stories are or should be. I’ve basically put Omnia and its stories in the, “It was a good first try,” box, but I’m ready to move on to another world. More on that below.

What Am I Working On?

Grifters – Obviously. I need to update my Music page and a bunch of this website in general to make it easier to find the new things, but that’s a project all on its own. I’m actually quite proud of the music I made for Grifters – it’s definitely some of my best yet, and I think Atlug’s character theme might appeal to Solar Clipper folks even if the rest of her doesn’t. 😀 Yes, she does sing sea shanties. She’s fun. They’re all fun.

Uthir – Uthir has become… far more than Urien, who may or may not end up getting renamed at some point. It’s become a full-on worldbuilding project, which has kept me more or less sane between all of the things. Uthir is now a planet in a solar system with a couple hundred million years of evolutionary history, a few thousand of cultural history, seven language groups sprouting out of the ether, and a bone-colored moon. It’s all still kind of nebulous at the moment, but there is magic, there are dragons, and I’m hoping I find good stories to tell in the course of building the bare bones of this world. Uthir is becoming my love letter to geology and paleontology, which is something I’ve never really tried to explore in a fantasy setting before in spite of it being something that Really Interests Me, and has for as long as I’ve been alive, as far as I can tell. The roots of the world go deep, and they are fascinating.

Iron – I have half a draft sitting around waiting to be looked at again. At some point, I’ll come back and see how I left Sukhetai and company. It may not be until next year at the rate I’m going. Maybe until November. We’ll see.

And with that… I return to my anvil. I have a lot of words to build so that I can name things and people properly. Keep on keeping on, folks.

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August Update – SALT!

Big News!

My dad and I finally got our first collaborative work done! The whole process was rather enlightening – particularly getting to see comments from an Actual Legit Editor, which wasn’t actually as harrowing an experience as I expected. (No surprise to anyone, the neurodivergent person writes like a neurodivergent person.) With any luck the next book of the series will enter the planning phase before November so that I can write my half for NaNoWriMo.

And with that, we return to the irregularly-scheduled update.

What am I working on?

The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – Still going! This month marks the four year anniversary of this absolute madness. With any luck, the final episode of this series will go up on the last Wednesday of 2021, and then I’ll be able to take a break for a while. I’m feeling the burnout more and more with each production-heavy episode, but I’m determined to see this thing to the conclusion in a timely fashion. Four years is a Long Time and I’ve learned a lot from this story/set of stories.

Urien: The Dragon of Norwood – I’ve made my peace with the fact that this is going to be in pre-production at least over the winter if not until next August. (Seems like my best-luck things tend to get going in August. Superstition? Maybe. Jars of dirt all around.) I decided to buckle down and hammer out the most relevant worldbuilding for the part of the world (which has been named Uthir – or, “All-Home” in Tireni) in which the story takes place – in particular the clothing, because That Matters for a visual medium. That and the architecture are my two worst sticking points because I’m mostly a character artist. Which is good, but it’s not everything. One tinker at a time.

Worldbuilding Channel? – One of the side-effects of me falling into my ill-managed chronic Worldbuilder Syndrome is that I’m contemplating making a worldbuilding channel specifically to showcase some of the weird/cool stuff I’ve come up with for parts of Uthir that aren’t relevant to the main plot. Like, the Rohitian Sand Riders. (Basically, I want to make the universe in my head pay its rent for all the space it takes up.) Do I regret any of this worldbuilding? Absolutely not. 😀 I might write other stories in Uthir at some point. It may become my next “main” world since I’ve learned a significant amount about myself, life, and storytelling since writing anything in Esper’s world.

And with that, I once more become an internet cryptid. I really should address that at some point.

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March Update – Slowly but Surely

Howdy, folks!

Welcome back. For some reason this is my first post of 2021 – I guess I’ve been hibernating since December! I can’t really blame myself, there, after the year we’ve all had.

What am I working on?

The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – Still clunking right along. In the last post I made, I mentioned we’d just started the Civil War arc, and a few days I go I recorded the last episode of that arc. Progress! We’ve got two more major “seasons” left of this thing before I can take a break from Skyrim, and let me tell y’all, after three and a half years of working on the same story, I’m starting to feel the drag. I’m glad I’ve lasted this long though, and I am going to see this through to the end! Will there be more stories with the Dawnbreakers characters after the saga ends? Maybe. But I’m going to have to take a break first so I don’t end up hating myself and everything else.

Urien: The Dragon of Norwood – Still in pre-production, and having seen how strenuous three years of story has been in a medium I’m used to, I’m starting to doubt my abilities again. I shouldn’t, necessarily. I did a test comic (Dawnbreakers-related) over on my Patreon to see how easily and quickly I can do this kind of thing, and I can actually work a lot faster than I expected. The trick now is getting all the assets done and stop worldbuilding for five minutes. I fell into the hole of Worldbuilder’s Disease and stunted my progress on the actual story a bit. Will I need the information later if I do more stuff in that universe? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe I just handwave it. I need to work on assets and get a buffer made before I start publishing this thing, but I’m almost done with the WHOLE script, so that’s fun! It’s doable, even if it might be a slower-moving thing than I expected. (That’s just how I am – slower-moving than anyone expects.)

Salt – The Great Collaboration Novel went off to the editor and came back in the space between posts. The manuscript is back in my dad’s hands and I’m now in charge of finishing the cover. We had planned to get it out sometime in March, and while there’s still time… there probably isn’t enough time to meet that deadline. Soon, though. Soon.

One more big announcement – I now support Pleistocene Park, which is topical considering that both Skyrim and Uthir may contain Mammoths. (I’d have been supporting them before now but I didn’t realize they had a Patreon until recently.) The park is working on reintroducing the Mammoth Steppe ecosystem to a park in Russia to measure its effects on permafrost, ecology, and ultimately climate change. The badge on my blog sidebar leads to their Patreon page, and there’s a URL on it that will lead to the project’s website. I think it’s an awesome idea (obviously) and even if you don’t support them yourself, you can rest assured that in supporting my weirdness, you’re indirectly helping a crazy awesome scientist do crazy awesome science things that might one day help save the world. I hope. 😀

And now, I return to my cryptid ways. Stay safe, as always, and have a good one!

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December Check-In – What a Year

Howdy, folks!

Around the time that I make my peace with being entirely arbitrary with these updates is most likely going to be when I start having an actual schedule, I’m sure. Anyway. It’s been a roll-with-the-punches kind of year and there have been many… many punches. Time for updates!

What am I working on?

The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – Will always be at the top of the list. Still going strong, and we’ve just started the Civil War arc. With any luck it’ll be a good balance of gameplay and scripted videos; while I don’t have a problem with either and quite enjoy writing out scripts, gathering footage for scripted scenes and editing it all together takes a lot of time. It’s good to be back in the “More Gameplay” zone though.

Urien: The Dragon of Norwood – Still in pre-production. I got stuck on the script about a third of the way through (so, chapter 11/29-ish) and have taken time off from writing to A) build out the world a little more (dangerous business, I realize) and B) work on assets like character sheets and landscape noodles. The only unfortunate part of having a new world to play around in is that I want to explore all of it. 😀 This has been my consistent “Back-Burner Project” so while progress is slow, it’s because I’ve been working on it between other things. I may have an adjacent project in the works something along the lines of another YouTube channel but specifically for worldbuilding.

Salt – The Great Collaboration Novel is back in my dad’s hands, after copious reworking of Sukhetai’s bits. With any luck the first chapter works better and starts his character off on the right foot – or at least a decent foot – so that his weirdness throughout makes a little more sense. We’ll see! Next phase: Dad’s going to send the book to an editor, and I’m going to finish the cover design. Tentative (very tentative) release date may be some time in February.

Other things I’ve been doing between last post and now include getting better at guitar, working on Black Marsh (very slowly), and making music. I can’t actually remember when I added the Music tab to my site but it’s there now!

And with that, I’ll go become a local cryptid once again. Stay safe and have a good one.

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September Check-In – I Forgot August!

Howdy, folks!

See, I made the last check-in early so I wouldn’t forget at the end of July, but apparently I forgot about August instead. So I’ll make this one now and possibly switch my updates to the beginning of the month so it’s easier to remember. Squirrel Brain got me good!

What am I working on?

The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – I took a few days to outline the whole rest of this story, and it looks like it’s going to be another year before we see the end of this thing. I am, admittedly, getting a little tired of this story, but I’m determined to finish it. The end of August was the story’s three year anniversary, so I did basically a week full of recaps so that people don’t have to go back through three years’ worth of videos to catch up. Since I took kind of a personal hiatus in July and August, I don’t have nearly as much of a buffer as I should, so finishing card art and building that back up again should be my top priority right now. (Note to self.)

Secret Lizard Things – Also known as Beyond Skyrim: Black Marsh. I’m on the 2D art team for this mod project! I was going to post about this in August when the Dev Diary came out but alas – I am squirrel.

Urien: The Dragon of Norwood – WIP title for the project formerly known as The Dragon King’s Council. I’ve learned a lot about comics, time, and scripting in the last month or so, and decided to get a lot more organized and condensed. I actually plotted the darn thing out so I don’t waste time getting lost in the weeds, took out some unnecessary side roads, and then actually sat down and calculated how much time it’ll take, how many pages it’s likely to be. The answer is roughly 600 pages, which is a lot but not as bad as I was expecting for the amount of subplots. The original was probably going to be closer to 5,000 if I kept noodling the way I was. 600, I can deal with. I’m on my second pass of the script and managed to condense everything down such that we’re actually getting places and I’m not even 200 pages in yet. 😀 I’m mostly working on this to give my hands a break between art, though I have made a rough design sheet for the main protagonist. (And several Pinterest boards because I am squirrel.) I’ve still got a lot of work to do; I plan to have design sheets for all of the main characters, some of the supporting cast, and a few locations done before I even think about getting into the main phase of production. I would feel more like I’m procrastinating starting the thing except I’m 90% sure I’ll want reference sheets down the line to keep myself sane and the style consistent. This is, I guess… pre-production? What are industry terms? I don’t know – I’m indie.

Salt(?) – The artist formerly known as Hostage has been with beta readers for a little while now and we’ve gotten some feedback. Mostly it’s stuff on my end, which I did expect. Sukhetai was a difficult character for me to write and it took a while for me to figure him out, so the beginning of the story is a little… meh? I’ve got some rewriting to do on that and then I’ve got to finish up the cover, however working on Urien has taught me a lot about story that I didn’t know I didn’t know (which is, appropriately, a theme in this book) so I’m happy to have a chance to apply that here.

That’s all from me this month! I’ll see ya’ll around – with any luck I’ll post another one of these either at the end of September or the beginning of October. Stay safe out there.

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July Check-In – Before I Forget

Howdy folks!

Still alive, still kicking. It’s been kind of a rough month as far as having time to do things goes so this check-in is probably going to look similar to last month’s update. I have been doing a bit of writing, but it’s mostly background work and worldbuilding (yes I know – I’m trying to avoid worldbuilder’s disease but there are some things I need to get a handle on sooner rather than later) which I will link to in the appropriate locations.

What Am I Working On?

Hostage – Manuscript is still with the other Lowell and I’ve gotten an okay on the cover, but because of aforementioned roughness I had to take a detour for my own sanity. So! Instead of the cover I’ve been working on a topographic map of Sudenlan, the continent upon which Hostage takes place. (It’s south of Korlay for those familiar with the other Lowell’s Tanyth Fairport trilogy – which, yes, is one of my favorites and the other reason Esper’s last name is Ravenwood – I truly didn’t expect to be sitting at the same table as my own father at writing cons, let alone doing a collaboration!)

Music – I added a new tab to the Table of Contents, which I don’t think I mentioned in my last update, and will be adding to it as I make compilations. I’ve been working on an OST for a campaign run by my friend David, and he’s given me permission to put the suite on YouTube, so that should be up soon!

The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – I’ve been picking away at what needs to happen next since I’m officially in terra nova as far as planning goes. I know the next Big Thing and what that will entail but I’ve got kind of a chill and possibly boring period between then and now and there may be more cinematic episodes in my future. Before I start doing the next phase though, I also have a recap to compile and new card art to finish. There’s a lot of work that needs to get done before the end of August.

The Dragon King’s Council – This is in the worldbuilding and initial noodling phase. It’s got a little over 200 pages of comic/graphic novel script which is really intimidating and I probably shouldn’t have gone whole hog with this thing, but I want to give it a shot anyway. I’ve also been considering ways to change the beginning and write it for novel so that less comic-inclined people can also enjoy the story. This is the story that I’ve been incessantly worldbuilding, and am in the process of compiling a World Anvil codex for it, so if you want to see what kind of weirdness is brewing, go check that out. I’m staying pretty far away from any story-related information, so it’s very spoiler-free thus far. My immediate next step will be working out the differences between cultural groups so that I know what it actually means to say, “Cason MacRaed is a second-generation Iznili immigrant to Wynecrag.” I’m very excited about this project, but at the same time trying not to burn myself out on it. It’s very much being written by the seat of my pants along a meandering trail where I know the major events that need to happen and where it’s going roughly, but the between bits are a mystery until they land on the page.

Other – Charge and anything Five Realms related have officially been shelved, and I’m considering taking the series number off the cover of Oisinson. I do want to look back at Charge and see if there’s anything in it I could use in the next Asgard book, which I think I know a good premise for, but it still needs noodles and the state of the world is not helping me think about writing modern fantasy. Things I do know: there will be more Loki, there might be more Rig, we may actually interact with Thor a bit more, potentially see some interaction with folks from other pantheons entirely, and I’m considering Vanaheim. We’ll see. I definitely want to go to Vanaheim sometime in the future but I don’t know when. The Asgard series has the potential to be nicely episodic, but I’m aware of the risk of going a bit too formulaic with each book, especially since I tend to think in patterns. I may have to re-read All’s Well and see if there are any threads I left hanging in the breeze.

That’s all from me this month. My brain feels like it’s gone through a blender but we’re still trucking along. I think I’m also going to be a little less rigid about when I post updates going forward, as long as I post them once a month. With that said, hopefully I’ll see you next month! Stay safe out there.

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June Check-In – The Late Bus!

Howdy folks! Life sandbagged me once again, but that’s alright.

It’s been a bit since last I wrote an update – usually I post these in the middle of the month but it’s currently *checks watch* June 30th, so I’m a little late. The past few months have been kind of a roller coaster, so I don’t have much in the way of writing going on, but I do have plans? I think? Maybe?

What Am I Working On?

Hostage – The manuscript is back with the other Lowell and I’m now working on the cover for it. So far it’s still in the thumbnail stage while we figure out what looks good, where titles are going, and what style we could possibly use to continue out the series if we write a sequel.

Music – Somehow I’ve learned the basics of how to play guitar over the course of May and June, and have been working on incorporating it into my music. It has opened up a lot of new composition directions since I now also kind of know how to write for string instruments better than I did. I will always be a Brass person (can’t go wrong with Mordor Horns) but guitar is very relaxing… once you get past the hand-cramp stage.

The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – I’ve recorded and edited everything up until the video that will go up at the end of August, which will mark the official 3rd anniversary of the series! Everything after that point is currently in the planning phase, since I also caught up to all the stuff I had planned from the beginning three years ago. Thankfully I’ve got plenty of time between now and then to figure it out, and I can also take a month or so off if I need. Give people a chance to catch up, maybe make some silly videos like a Zaytest “okee” counter. 😀

The Asgard Series – Sequel is still in the noodling phase. The whole state of the world threw a massive wrench at my face in terms of, “Oh hey, I’m writing urban mythological fantasy set in the modern day how do I incorporate THIS mess?” I’m on the fence about whether or not to just ignore it completely and call it an AU where 2020 was a normal year. I’ve been given the advice to pick an arbitrary date five-ish years into the future but… bruh. I don’t even know what things will be like five weeks in the future. So I’m stuck-ish on that one for the moment.

Charge – Charge continues to be cursed. I got a fair ways into the story and realized it was kind of complicated for what I was trying to do with it. Sometimes stories just don’t work and that’s okay. I did learn some stuff and do some worldbuilding that I may be able to use in the Asgard series, when I come back to it, but for the moment, Charge will stay archived. It may come back into the light in novel form later on, but for sure it’s not going to work as a comic.

The Five Realms – I’ll be honest… I’ve learned a lot about myself, storytelling, and the kinds of stories I want to tell over the past year or so, and I think I’ve fallen out of love with this universe a little bit, which is something I never thought I’d ever say. Esper will always have a special place in my heart, but now, some roughly seven years after I sat down to write Revenant, I feel like I can do better. Which leads me to…

The Dragon King’s Council – I haven’t wanted to say much about this one because I kept working on it a little bit, then backing off again, then working on it, then backing off again, but I think this is actually going to happen. I know enough about the world, the magic system, and most of the characters that I can kind of wing it (heh – dragon puns) until I figure out what’s going on and where the end of this thing is going to be. Right at the moment it exists as a “noodle bin” where I keep all of my ideas for it, and as 220 pages of comic scripts. I’m considering trying to transfer that over into novel form (because it’s a Good Dang Story so far – lots of fun but with a serious side, it kind of hearkens back to the “bunch of D&D adventures” feeling that Revenant had) but I keep running into an issue with the first chapter – that is, since I wrote it for a comic originally, the beginning makes sense for a comic or graphic novel, but not necessarily a novel novel. Whatever I do with it, this one is going to be kind of on the back burner, simmering away, getting stirred every once in a while.

That’s all for this month! With any luck it won’t take me half a year to respond again. 😀 See you next time!

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March Check-In – The Ides of March

Howdy folks! The spring equinox is almost upon us and I am bracing for impact.

Because it’s allergy season. [dramatic music]

Actually, I’m bracing for impact for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which being that I work in retail as a day job. With everything going on right now in the world I’ve just kinda made my peace with the fact that I’ll probably be sick sometime in the next month or so. I’ve been trying to get as much voice-based stuff done as possible so that I don’t fall behind as badly. As such I haven’t done a whole lot of writing in the past month or so, as most of my efforts have been concentrated on The Dawnbreaker’s Saga.

What Am I Working On?

Hostage: I have the whole story! It melded together better than I expected it would, and I’m excited to see where the story takes them if we continue it. (We’re Lowells – we can’t not write trilogies.) I’ve got the full manuscript now and have been slowly plucking away at my own mistakes whilst also trying to find places with extraneous wordage on both ends. It’s a BIG book. With any luck I’ll have that back to the other Lowell by the end of March. (Along with, perhaps, a cover sketch. I have a few ideas.)

Charge: Hit a wall with this one wherein I realized just how much work it was going to be to catch up with my writing in the form of artwork to go along with it. I still think I can do it, but since I’ve got Hostage to work on, it’s on pause. When I hit the last “okay, now what?” section my wordcount for the manuscript was at 29k – and having planned the first chapter out in comic form… it’s going to be a while before I catch up with myself.

Scripting: Most of what I’ve been writing lately have been scripts for the Dawnbreakers’ Saga. The plots are starting to converge in a big way so I’ve had to get my ducks in a row as far as first meetings are concerned. I have a few big production episodes coming up, but I also have some ideas for silly things to do in the meantime if I do fall behind and end up unable to record for some length of time. 😀

The Asgard Series: I have been told in no uncertain terms that Raylene and Dublin need a sequel. I’ll be honest, I expected this to be a one-off and then I’d go back to the Five Realms, but I’ve honestly had more fun writing Loki alone than most of what I was working on before. So, a sequel is in the veeerry early, babiest planning stages. What I like to call, “percolation time.” Hopefully it doesn’t take me as long to come up with a decent conflict as it did for the first one – seriously, Utgard took me a year and a half. All I know about the next installment is that I want more Loki, more of the kids (obviously), and possibly more Heimdall shenanigans – he did, after all, come up with the, “Let’s dress Thor as Freya to get his hammer back,” idea.

That’s about it for this month! With any luck, April will be a little more peaceful. See you again soon!