The last few weeks have been among some of the weirdest of my life. As I’ve got a day job and we’re under significant deadline stress, it was a good excuse to sit down, put blinkers on, and avoid every single note that has ever been sent to me; but I didn’t want to ignore what seems to be an enormous outpouring of kindness and goodwill to everyone who has read my five-act selection of weiner jokes. 

Thanks to everyone who read it; thanks to everyone who read it and liked it; thanks to everyone who recommended it to a friend; thanks to everyone who wrote a shitpost about it, I’ve got to find the goths axis sheet because my editor sent it to me and I laughed for pure joy; thanks to everyone who reviewed, and who sent me a lovely letter saying they enjoyed reading it, and to anyone who read it and felt a feeling. Just because I am overwhelmed by it does not mean that it did not mean the world.

What I am also going to attempt to do over the next couple days, before I let myself indulge in looking at people cosplaying, because my editor sent me photos that I haven’t looked at yet, is highlight some of the first works that got me through the damn book. I’ve got two beloved playlists, and a piece of art that’s lived on my fridge since 2018, and a godawful house quiz. I was about to say, “if you do not want to live through these, block this tag,” but if you do not want to live through these I’m not sure what you’re here for unless you’re here for my Wizardess Heart play-throughs, which I’m sorry I stopped because I’ve dated like all those gruesome dudes by now and pretty much every single one of them is absolute nonsense.

Anyway, this week I will pay my respects to the ghouls who’ve loved me. The other thing I will do this week is the more important one, which is to tell you to buy The Monster of Elendhaven, but I’ll do that separately, in another post where I tell you that should you have resources to purchase The Monster of Elendhaven you should purchase The Monster of Elendhaven.