My Plans After Pride 2025

Hello. C J here. Going to Kingston Pride has helped me decide what I’m working on next now that I can do product design and writing in any order. This required the core rules of all six game lines be done and out for play testing. Now for what’s to come in the next year or so. First up, I need a novel to sell at next Pride. This will be in print with my home printing and hand binding setup. Find more about that in the pages menu this blog has.

I’m going to proofread Impossible Skyline, my fourth novel, for sale first. My first novel will be for sale later, at least several years. My other two novels are The Astral Chronicle One and Two. These two I might wait on until I write the other seven and sell them as a hardcover omnibus. All of these will be up for free PDF download as well when they’re done. So, priority one, Impossible Skyline.

Now that I’m back to working with that genre, the strange industrial engineering project of a narrative that book is, I’m also going to start planning the sequel. There will be at least three in the series and each one will be mostly self contained but continue the characters’ stores. Find a free sample of the first one in the Downloads section of the blog. In the first Impossible Skyline we have a mix of genders for the main cast, one gay male, one female First Nations themed wolf police officer, a Hispanic secondary protagonist police chief, one very well dressed Middle Eastern male and a human with a thing for dating lizard folk. That sounds diverse enough to sell.

I should have enough time to work on one or two other things. Finishing the Quantum core rules will sort of be one of them but Quantum is made so slowly due to all the math involved that I don’t count it. Instead I’ll be working on the next several Heart and Fur books. Heart and Fur is always going to be an experimental product even though everything in it is play tested and works. That’s all for now. Expect free samples of the games soon and a full novel PDF within a year.

C J Mcpherson

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