Panamanian Cherokee Sci-Fi/Fantasy & Horror Author. Freelance Animator & Artist, and Variety Streamer
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TLDR;
Happy Father’s Day! Book 2 is entirely ready for Beta Reading. Book 3 is currently 13 chapters long.
ART, ANIMATION, COMMISSIONS, & MERCH
- Sadly, I won’t be ordering any more physical merch for my books for at least a couple months. This will include the samples I was looking at getting last month.
- I did not get the vendor table at MomoCon, but I have applied to festivals
Outside of stream, I’ll be working on merch designs that will go up on my online stores. These will be related to my Sci-fi novels. - I will be attempting to get the Cylbie pattern and current cylbie done this month.
BOOKS, COMICS, FANFIC, & MANGA
Book 2 is 100% ready for Beta Reading. The sign up to be a Beta Reader- here – originally ended today. I will be extending it to June 6th.
Beta Readers will get the first two chapters on Monday, June 8th.
The reward for Beta Reading will be a signed, personalized hardcover copy of Book 2. However, you HAVE to finish the Beta Reading process. No “I read a chapter. Give me prize.”
I am working on Book 3 while Beta Readers go through Book 2.
STREAMINGS
I finished Midnight Ramen, a heart-breaking game. It hits some heavy topics related to death and moving on. I recommend it.
I need to do 2 12-hour streams this month cause I didn’t do one last month.
If you’d like to donate to StackUp in order to fund a 2nd supply crate, click here.
OTHER PROJECTS
I’ve been doing some crochet work. It’s nice and relaxing.
I have a Social Media Manager! I will be listing all of my socials over on my website and my Twitch once they’re all established.
As always, the ebook, paperback, and hardcover are available for purchase over on Amazon and you can use code 'RAPTOR' at checkout for 10% off your order at Cheeby Tea! I recommend the Jasmine Green Tea, Black Mojito Tea, and Peach Black Tea.
Happy Father’s Day, Happy Men’s Mental Health Month, and happy 4th of July! Don’t forget to call or visit your dad!
We’re heading into hurricane season, so please be safe and be careful. I’ll see y’all in the next newsletter!
TLDR;
Happy Mother’s Day! The brakes got slammed down on my plans this past month but hopefully things will start ramping up this month.
ART, ANIMATION, COMMISSIONS, & MERCH
- Commissions are closed for the rest of the year.
- Still working on concept art for my books.
- I should be done with my last commission… hopefully. Waiting
- I have created another online shop at ACGGOODS and have started uploading designs there. They have a very wide variety of merch, even more than Tee-spring. It doesn’t allow AI art either, which is a big plus as well. I’ll try to order some samples after MomoCon.
BOOKS, COMICS, FANFIC, & MANGA
- I have more chapters ready for Beta Reading, but I’ve had to slow down due to some life events.
- I will be rolling out the signup this May as I prepare for the potential that I will be a vendor at MomoCon. The order of posting will be to my discord server first, then my streaming channels, then here and World Anvil at roughly the same time.
- I was able to get a little work done on my manga series, but wasn’t able to keep up with a NaNoWriMo pace like I wanted to. I won’t be able to do the NaNoWriMo pace this month either, so I’ll try again in June.
STREAMINGS
- I got a few games done this past month. Cute little indie games. My favorite, I think, was Creature Kitchen. I highly recommend it. It’s short and slightly unsettling at first, but overall charming.
- I’ve got to do 1 12-hour stream this month, since I hit 25 subs on Twitch. I’ll probably break that into 2 6-hour though.
- If you’d like to donate to StackUp in order to fund a 2nd supply crate, click here.
OTHER PROJECTS
- I am in the process of hiring a Social Media Manager. She will be helping me a lot with Social Media stuff. Be on the lookout for JHHStudio over on Instagram, TikTok, and other social places. I will be posting the links to those places once they are finally set up.
- I will still be making my monthly newsletter.
- My really big news that I mentioned in last month’s newsletter will be announced on my stream during the first week of May. I won’t be making a social media post about it for some time, but I’ll talk about it on stream.
As always, the ebook, paperback, and hardcover are available for purchase over on Amazon and you can use code 'RAPTOR' at checkout for 10% off your order at Cheeby Tea! I recommend the Jasmine Green Tea, Black Mojito Tea, and Peach Black Tea.
Happy Mother’s Day! Don’t forget to call or visit your mom!
Y’all, please be safe, be careful, make good decisions, and I will see you in the next newsletter!
TLDR;
Now that the Fool’s day is over… I got quite a bit done this last month, which was nice. Mostly around my book and stream. Happy Easter! He is risen!
ART, ANIMATION, COMMISSIONS, & MERCH
- Commissions are now closed to new clients.
- I’ve been working on concept art for my books, as well as some animations.
- Working on these concept art pieces made me realize that some of these things may never be explained in the books. I’m debating making videos similar to Matt Rhodes, who does these really cool worldbuilding videos.
BOOKS, COMICS, FANFIC, & MANGA
- I did the Usek 1.3 physical edit, with the exception of chapters 8-11. That is due to Staples horribly mixing up those pages. That said, I’m currently applying that physical edit to the digital version, chapter by chapter.
- I have 3 chapters ready for Beta Readers. The sign up to be a Beta Reader will be available for those in my Discord first, then my streaming channels, then here, then World Anvil.
- I got another chapter drafted on Usek 1.5. I’m only a little surprised that I could get one done, given how often I was away from my desk.
STREAMINGS
- Quite a bit got done this past month. For starters, I finished 4 games.
- Did my week of Smurf, FINALLY.
- Got the month of Facecam and No head coverings done.
- I also got 2 12-hour streams done, though I had to break one of those 12 hours into 2 6-hour streams.
- Also, if you’d like to donate to StackUp in order to fund a 2nd supply crate, click here.
OTHER PROJECTS
I have really big news, but I can’t say anything more than that until the end of the month.
As always, the ebook, paperback, and hardcover are available for purchase over on Amazon and you can use code 'RAPTOR' at checkout for 10% off your order at Cheeby Tea! I recommend the Jasmine Green Tea, Black Mojito Tea, and Peach Black Tea.
Happy Easter!
Y’all, please be safe, be careful, make good decisions, and I will see you in the next newsletter!
TLDR;
February was a bit of a struggle this year. I got Draft 2 of Book 2 finished, completed a little animation for stream, and got some work done.
ART, ANIMATION, COMMISSIONS, & MERCH
- I've got a new POD shop to replace DesignByHumans. This place is called Fourthwall. I am slowly going through the site, but here's what I have so far.
- I actually got some work done on "Grekane eats Sora". I did a quick render that I'll upload to subscription sites, like SubscribeStar and Patreon, maybe Ko-fi.
- I finished a new animation for my BRB screen, which is an ad for my book, Usek: Haven's Last Blade.
- I also got some work done on my current commission. I am slowly getting there. I've hit a bit of a bottleneck though as I'm on the clothing section.
BOOKS, COMICS, FANFIC, & MANGA
- I got Draft 2 for Book 2 done.
- I'm going to do the NaNoWriMo pace for this month. I may bounce between various books, but we shall see.
- I changed the name for my light-hearted fantasy manga series. Once I'm certain I've nailed it, I'll share it first on Twitch and my other streaming channels, then I'll share it here.
- I'm thinking about doing a kids book about the frog and the scorpion. There's the traditional version and a 'new' version of the parable, but I plan on adding my own twist.
- Sadly, I didn't get into Barnes & Nobel stores, but I am in a brick and mortar store, Blue Apple Bookstore. At the moment, it doesn't look like you can order from her shop online, so if you'd like to get my book, it's available for purchase from Amazon.
STREAMINGS
- Charity stream completed and super successful. Raised $1500 in 12 hours. I am both so very happy and terrified. If you'd like to donate in order to fun a 2nd supply crate, click here.
- There were multiple reward tiers hit, two of which are the Month of Facecam and Month of No head covering. I started those right after the charity stream was done.
- I plan on doing the Smurf Week on the 2nd week of March. We shall see if that holds up.
- Currently, my lovely community on Twitch hit 2 of 3 ways to get a 12 hour stream from me, so I'll be trying to figure out when in March I will do those.
OTHER PROJECTS
- I am crocheting more Huragok. If I start selling them, the best place to find out is on my Twitch.
- Oh! There's now two things I need to put down at the end of newsletters. One is my book. The other is my discount for tea! SO...
As always, the ebook, paperback, and hardcover are available for purchase over on Amazon and you can use code 'RAPTOR' at checkout for 10% off your order at Cheeby Tea! I recommend the Jasmine Green Tea, Black Mojito Tea, and Peach Black Tea.
WITH ALL THAT SAID
The weather has bounced between freezing and hot and it doesn't look like it will let up anytime soon. Honestly, I'm looking forward to the rain. Hopefully I'll be able to sit outside on the porch and get to enjoy it.
Y'all, please be safe, be careful, make good decisions, and I will see you in the next newsletter!
TLDR;
January was a nice start to my year. Wrote over 70k words in the span of a month. I even made a lil art video on Youtube.
ART, ANIMATION, COMMISSIONS, & MERCH
- I did a little art challenge video and uploaded it on Youtube. I'd like to do more because that one was fun to make! I haven't done traditional art in a while.
- Commissions will be open until the end of the month.
- Speaking of commissions, I am about halfway through the one I'm working on.
BOOKS, COMICS, FANFIC, & MANGA
- I have my first public book signing on February 7th! The book store that I'll be at even made a post!
- I am still working on Book 2. I've gotten Draft 2 of the first 13 chapters rewritten as of this post, and have 8 chapters to go.
- On the book, I tried to do a NaNoWriMo writing pace, which is 50k in a month, for January. I ended up writing 71,562 words. Mind you, this was while I was taking two days off a week.
- I wrote a little on my light-hearted fantasy manga series. I've got everything outlined, ending included and I've written my rules for how to keep the tone.
STREAMINGS
- Did a nice chunk of streaming this month. Not bad, all things considered.
- I have one 12-hour stream next month.
- I also have a CHARITY STREAM on February 8th, starting at Noon CST. This will be the 4th annual Colonel Charles Fry Memorial stream, raising money for StackUp once again. - I have finally finished something I can use for the WEEK OF SMURF streams. It doesn't look great, but it exists. That's better than nothing. Honestly, I've put this stream off for way too long due to perfectionism.
OTHER PROJECTS
I will be crocheting a bunch of Huragok. Be on the lookout for if/when they go on sale.
WITH ALL THAT SAID
There's been a lot of crazy weather and crazier events going on right now. Y'all, please be safe, be careful, make good decisions, and I will see you in the next newsletter!