A milestone! A modest one by some standards, but one I'm happy to reach nonetheless. As a thank-you to all, the next Five Star Service chapter will be ready in a week or so.
I'm an IT Brony who writes stories based on a show for 8-year old girls whose content is meant for anything but 8-year old girls.
I'm off to Las Pegasus Vegas and the World Series of Poker for a weeklong vacation, so wish me luck. Have no fear, I'm taking the next Five Star Service chapter along to work on during my plane ride and downtime from my poker play, perhaps poolside at the Mystique Mirage--yes, I took my inspiration for the Mystique from my favorite Vegas hotel.
But if you'd like something to read in the meantime... it's done!
I'm breaking my own rule and currently working on three separate writing projects at once. They are:
Five Star Service
Next Chapter: 40% done
Current Word Count: 3,403
Estimated Release Date: June 20 +/- 2 days
Comments: Had some trouble deciding which direction to go, but I think I figured it out. Be on the lookout for a crossover character from a certain other work I'm involved with.
Turnabout Storm
Well folks... my novel is hopefully going to go live on Kindle Direct Publishing in around a week or so, at which point I'll be resuming work on Five Star Service - A Gentleman for Mares Tale. At this point, I'm just awaiting the completion of my cover art and a little more reader feedback, including putting the preview of the story up on some other sites, before hitting the publish button. I'm also seeing about doing a print paperback version, though that would be more expensive. Would
The next chapter of Five Star Service is going to be an intermission article; a Q&A session with Five Stars where she answers reader questions. I have a few in mind, but if you'd like to submit some of your own, feel free. You can ask them from the perspective of anonymous pony and human readers, or from any character in the Gentlemanverse.
Hit the publish button by accident. I really wish they wouldn't put it right next to the edit button. But this time, I'm just going with it. The chapter is ready; I was only waiting on feedback from one other person before publishing. You may also notice some spiffy new cover art, courtesy of Still Waters. Thank you very much!
Anyway, enjoy the new chapter a little prematurely... and the nice new art as well.
--Firesight
With apologies, the next Five Star Service chapter is going to be delayed a few days.
There are two reasons: after talking to a couple prereaders, including Demon Eyes Laharl himself, I'm now convinced the current version of the new chapter simply doesn't mesh well with the existing story and I need to modify a few things. I may save the current version for a side story, but this one will be changed a bit.
Probably tonight. And honestly, I'm a little nervous about releasing this one, which has undergone several revisions and one complete rewrite. My initial version of the chapter wasn't true to our two new herd stallions, who have good hearts but were--and in many ways still are--a couple bad boys who like breaking the rules. The new version I think fixes that, but...