Hot Minute, Hot Summer

Well, summer is of to it’s typical June start, which means goals and deadlines are already flying like fresh-cut grass clippings! I’m not sure how I always (ALWAYS) forget how insane June is as a month–I need to leave a giant note in my next-year’s planner that says HEY YOU WON’T DO ANYTHING IN JUNE, FYI, NO NOT EVEN THIS YEAR, NOT EVER, DON’T BOTHER.

That said, I haven’t done nothing, at all, but my flash-a-day goal has absolutely been a casualty of this month. I HAVE written a good handful of flash, though, that I now need to look at and see what I want to do with, and I WILL be starting Flash Friday this week (AKA tomorrow!!), and I did FINALLY finish the illustrated zine for “Tower’s End,” the short story I read aloud at WorldCon 2021 in Washington, D.C., which was originally printed in The Bronzeville Bee in 2020. I’ve had sketches and ideas for it for ages, and even made a couple mockups over the past couple years, but this month, I finally nailed it down!

And I finally got it posted up on my Etsy shop, The Placebo Emporium for just $5.00!

All the illustrations were made (painstakingly, I might add!) in Word, because I like constructive limitations on art, and also I hate myself. But I think they turned out really cool! I hope you like it. I’ve only got a handful of them for now, so we’ll see if I do a second print run at some point.

So June hasn’t been a total lost cause! If you want to know more about what I’ve been up to (or not up to!), definitely check out my monthly newsletter, The Oddscope! I have a couple slots left for physical copies of the handmade, analog version, which goes out usually the last day of the month (or a few days after, let’s be real). You can sign up for it here!

Until tomorrow! :D