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1080p No I mean this is news regarding Smoke and Mirrors. Among the various ideas behind starting it was to see if I could keep up with a weekly update schedule, to which the answer was a resounding ehhhh.

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... did someone mention My Little Pony's Little Ponies somewhere recently, or something? I seem to have gotten a bunch of bookshelfing notices on it and new watches in the last week or so.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, YA FILTHY ANIMALS

My one regret is that I never got time to make the Boo-as-Rudolph avatar I had planned.

Sincerely though, I hope that all of you have found loved ones, or at the very least a nice sympathetic bartender, to spend the eve with.

I'm just gonna change the "official" release day for new chapters to Fridays. I seem to have a lot more Monday and Wednesday busy-ness cropping up this time of year.

Okay, it looks like this week's Smoke & Mirrors update is gonna be a day late. Basically I blew most of the week's work-hours for this project on making some snazzy cover art, and fiddling with the grand story outline to repair major weak spots in the act 3 area.

But I swear, by blood, by bone, and by a cupcake in my eye, that the next chapter will go up tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a picture of Dreamsweet with Trixie's hat.

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I had to use Internet Explorer to publish chapters this morning and write this blog post now. I feel so common...

Well, as much as I hate to eat into my completed-chapter buffer, chapter 3 really is too short and uneventful to stand on its own. Plus it's high time to get the actual central plot rolling, no? So this week's update to Smoke and Mirrors is a twofer! Yay!

Entirely unrelated, regarding the new Site Statistics page:

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Okay, to prevent hyperventilating I am very deliberately going to spend the next few hours doing something else, and NOT obsessively refreshing FiMFic every thirty seconds to see if my story has gotten one new view or favorite or thumbs-up. Breathe, Boo, breathe...

Now what in the Sam Hill do I think I'm doing, starting a new story with two others dangling "on hiatus" over the void, like a pair of Damoclean swords suspended above a terribly mixed metaphor?

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