Once again, the proof copy is out for delivery right now.

The hardcover edition proof copy turned out great - some text mistakes to fix, but no printing errors that aren't mine! Lulu can print a book to specifications! Yay!

So the copy mistakes are fixed in that edition, and production copies are ready to print. I pretty much just have to go to the website and hit the button, and the presses start rolling. Do they uses presses in printing anymore? I doubt it. Well, you know what I mean.

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OMG OMG OMG
it's out for delivery

I can't wait I'm so amped up I can't type good so I've rewritten this bunch of times and I'm giving up now because it's just

That's right. We're there.
Writing is complete, interior layout is complete, cover is complete.
Time to print a proof copy!

I'm super-nervouscited right now.

I just ordered the first proof from Lulu Press. In a few days I get the physical copy in my hooves, and I get to see what I screwed up my work on actual pieces of paper in linen-bound hardcover with a dust jacket and everything.

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Here's where we are on the Seashell print book:
83 pages all told, including front matter and a preface. 75 of them so far are story. Anticipating about 10-20 more pages to be finished. Almost there!
Cover's done (for the hardcover edition dust-jacket, at least, will probably have to be redone for the paperback but whatever).

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I wrote this thing for Penguifyer, and today is my assigned day to deliver the gift, so I guess this is when the story drops:

TLost

• MLP: FiM
• Drama
• Slice of Life

Twilight, on her new wings, couldn't find her way around Cloudsdale. It may have left more of mark on her than she wants to admit. Written for Jinglemas 2023.

• Twilight
• Rainbow Dash

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I hope they enjoy it, and I hope all of you will too!

I'm pleased to be able to say progress is being made, although to temper the good news, it hasn't been entirely easy.

I've just gotten over the first of the two major emotional hills I'm expecting the story to have to encounter. And while I'm glad I wrote it, it was hard on me. It may be been bleeding out into other parts of my life in some ways, which hasn't been great, but I guess it's encouraging in a way because I think that's a hallmark of good writing; it should influence you.

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Do you like Secret Santa exchanges? Do you like stories? Do you wish there was a way to combine the two into some sort of abominable Frankenstein amalgamation of a holiday season tradition? Well, there is!

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1025853/jinglemas-2023

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It's happening, my good pony people.

Seashell. It's coming back. In printed book form!

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...Well, mostly not impacting the actual experience on the site, to be fair.

Not yet, anyway.

But yeah, this morning a weird account created today happened to catch my eye. I've seen a few others like it before as well, but didn't think about it. Spam's a fact of life. Normal internet problems, ya know?
Something made me go digging deeper this time.

So I started looking at the most recently created accounts, and what they are.
They're ALL spammers. Thousands of accounts worth.

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What the title says. It's happening - Seashell is going to be a print book.
I guess it's a good time to tell everyone, because I've already started doing the layout. In fact I'm mostly finished formatting, if not content writing and editing, the interior matter for the first edition I plan to print.

"Whoa whoa whoa," I can hear you now. "First edition you plan? As in, there's gonna be more than one version?"

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