Very, very belated post, this, and I daresay many folks who would be interested in this have already found out one way or another on their own, but better late than never, I suppose. As of, um, about a month ago, Mendacity is available to order from Ponyfeather Publishing, in both hardcover and softcover editions!

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Well! Um. It's, ah, been a while, hasn't it? Lots of water under the bridge, lots of stories unwritten, lots of comments unanswered...

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Well! The first chapter of my de-ponyfied version of Rise and Fall is complete, and all that remains is the final tidbits and tiddlywinks for those folks who most generously opted for one of the higher reward tiers. I just completed the illustration for the chapter this evening, and, well...My artistic chops, it would seem, are not quite up to the task. The result is serviceable, and it'll be going up for this chapter, but it could be better,

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Yes, you read correctly; Sassafras, not Sassaflash. Having mulled the idea over for some time, I've decided it's time I began writing again—and my current rather impecunious state helped me narrow down what to write rather nicely. The possible Celestia fic I mentioned may still happen, but today is not its day—nor will my own worldbuilding yet see dawn, as that's still in rather too unformed a state, story-wise, for me to be able to make something of it. Instead, I've decided to

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Exactly what it says on the tin. More than 100,000 words later, my tale of an angsty necromancer and her unflappable minion and friend has come to a close. Here it be. If you haven't already taken a gander, and if you liked Mendacity (or heck, even if you didn't), please, take a look—and if you've been following along all this time, thank you, and I hope this finale to my tale satisfies.

Just a little note to let y'all know that the Mendacity audiobook by ChefSandy is, as this post's title would lead you to believe, complete! The results are most excellent, and I highly recommend that y'all take a listen to it; it turned out very well indeed. The whole thing can be found here, with a download for the entire story in the description of the first chapter. My most profuse thanks to ChefSandy for

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Exactly what it says on the tin, really. I'm delighted to announce that ChefSandy has taken it upon himself to record an audiobook version of Mendacity! I've listened to the first two chapters, so far, and I can happily give it the Dromicosuchus stamp of approval. His Aldrovanda voice, particularly, is spot-on. Hie thee hence and

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My apologies again for the indecision on my part, as well as the dashed expectations of a new chapter, but...Bah. There were some elements of Starswirl's chapter that I ended up really needing for the next (and last, I think) chapter, so back up it goes again. I've edited it in places, particularly the ending, to improve some of the things that irked me before; not sure whether it's strictly speaking better, but...well. It is what it is.

...Bleck. I wanted Chapter 19 of Rise and Fall to work, I really did, and I know that y'all seem to have enjoyed it well enough, but in terms of the overall story structure it just...I can't be comfortable with it. It serves no definite purpose, its conclusion doesn't really make much logical sense—Starswirl decides to send her back, but somehow arranges things so that she doesn't disrupt the timeflow? What happens if she explicitly decides to do so? It just doesn't work—and perhaps

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Y'know, just yesterday I had been happily thinking to myself that since I was nearing the end of Rise and Fall, I'd finally be able to devote myself wholeheartedly to some of my other projects (among others, an original xenofictional story (somewhere around a 4.5 or 5 on the Mohs scale of science fiction hardness) set approximately five hundred billion years in our future, an attempt to write a version of the Necronomicon true to that described in Lovecraft's writings, including the 800+

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