Thank You, Patrons!

I have to stop to thank my patrons since it is Thanksgiving Week. I’m feeling very grateful to those who contribute a little each month to my worthy cause: Me.

Well, yeah… in a way. My patrons at both www.patreon.com/nathaneverett and at www.patreon.com/aroslav provide what I consider to be three important services and I want to thank them for doing this.

1.    Thank you for helping me make my books available FREE for online reading at www.nathaneverett.com. Currently, three books are available for free online reading and I hope to have another formatted soon after the New Year holiday. This is important to me because I suddenly find myself sympathizing with old men who just don’t have the budget to buy a bunch of new books to read at the pace they consume them. I’m one of those, so I want to make a version available for online reading that doesn’t cost anything. My eBooks and paperbacks are still for sale through normal channels.

2.    Thank you for keeping me motivated. I have readers who are following the development of my two new books (one for Nathan Everett and one for Devon Layne) via daily updates during November. Knowing that I have promised something and committed to it is a very important motivator. I expect to have Wild Woods, the sequel to City Limits, completed by the end of the month. So far, I have about 67,000 words of an anticipated 100,000 written. Right on track! Add to that the continuation of development of Devon Layne’s serial Double-Take at 37,000 this month. That totals a whopping 100,000 words for the Month of November at the two-thirds mark. I’m still writing. Nonetheless, “winning” on NaNoWriMo began today, November 20. So, I verified my word count and here it is.

3.    Thank you for supplementing my diet with occasional vegetables. I do appreciate the added dollars when I go grocery shopping and although fresh vegetables are less common out here in the Arizona desert, there are a couple of markets where I can buy potatoes, carrots, jicama, turnips, and salad makings.

I’m working on enhancing my southern sunblock. I really can’t sit outside before one in the afternoon because I can’t work with the sun in my eyes. Fortunately, I spend a lot of afternoon time out here. I have drapes that will fit over the frame next to my door but so far, I just keep moving my chair around so I stay in the shadow of my magnificence. Oh well. A little advertising is a good thing, right?

And I will be moving my portable billboard with me during January and February when the big markets, gem show, and RV show are occurring. I’ll be spending a good bit of time at Readers’ Oasis Bookstore with a table and a pen ready to sign. I’ll have both Devon Layne and Nathan Everett books available so if you’d like a signed copy, just swing by the Oasis in January and February.

I’m very excited to have my daughter planning to join me for a week before Christmas. We’re doing some advance planning for this trip and have our permits ready for a visit to Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area where Q’s first book, Race Through Fire, is set. Neither of us have ever actually seen the setting for her book so we watched the fifteen-minute video that describes how many different ways we could die out there and then acquired our backcountry permits. Hopefully, we won’t be out there for the full year that the permit lasts.

Weather here has been bright and clear with a little wind to keep things interesting. More soon!