Spring Cleaning [Progress Update 2.0] —
Tab descriptions — Done, may change in the future.
The Cardinal Directive’s glossary — Updated! Also terms from the first three mission logs have been made visible to free users. See more detailed update below.
The “homepage” article — Updated
Primary Projects at the Moment (2.0) —
Here’s an update on this list that I made a month ago!
Audio recordings of articles/chapters. Still working on getting this up and running for Cardinal or Sleepless, but Mythic was officially the first project to get an audio recording posted! Gotta start somewhere!
Redbubble. The store was launched within the past month! It has 10 designs right now with more to follow! Thank you everyone that has bought anything from it! Everything helps <3
Mythic. I didn’t think I’d be posting it so early, but I just couldn’t help myself! I’m really excited for this project and its mini-series. More in depth update below!
Social media/Self-promotion. I admit I didn’t do much for this one yet. We’ll figure that out in a hot minute.
The Cardinal Directive
As of this past Friday, The Cardinal Directive is now over 50k words long! That’s officially novel-length, and we’re only getting started! Crazy, right?
This also coincided perfectly with Mission Log #12, the series’s midseason finale! Writing this series has been a wild ride and I’m so thankful for everyone that’s been reading along. It means the world to me that people are even remotely interested in what I do.
This all said, Cardinal is going to take a small break, part in celebration, part to let that ending sink in, and part for me to plan out the next few Mission Logs. This means that for paying viewers, instead of having another Cardinal post in two weeks, you’ll be treated to three weeks of Sleepless instead!
When Cardinal returns, new art will be used for the icon, as well as be available on Redbubble for purchase!
And for free viewers, don’t feel daunted by the 50k word count!
If you’re interested in zombies, dragons, science fiction, and/or horror, I highly recommend you check out The Cardinal Directive — it’s never too late to get started reading. If you subscribe for even a single month, that’s only five dollars for full access to a novel’s worth of content for that month — and that’s not even counting Sleepless and other articles for paid subs! Pretty sweet deal in my book!
As part of this celebration, I’ve also made Mission Log #1, Mission Log #2, and Mission Log #3 open to FREE users, so you have a chance to check the series out and get hooked before you decide whether or not you want to pay for access to the rest of it!
To read them, click below or head over to Cardinal’s tab on substack!
| [Mission Log #1] | [Mission Log #2] | [Mission Log #3] |
[Glossary] if you get lost with the terminology
Mythic
Mythic: The Myth of Everlight officially dropped, along with its audio version!
Cat’s out the bag, Mythic is a fantasy adventure and worldbuilding exercise that will be available to all free and paying subscribers of Author’s Notes! Our first miniseries will follow a group of adventurous souls seeking out the location of one of the nine legendary (and long-vanished) dragon forges. What will they see? What will they do? Will they unravel the myth, or will the forges remain lost? All in due time!
The miniseries is intended at this time to be five episodes in total, but there will also be content to help explain and introduce the world Mythic takes place in! I’m really looking forward to doing more art and writing for this setting, especially because after this miniseries is over, the option will remain in the future for another miniseries in the same world (not necessarily continuing from the events of the first series). I’m super excited for this project and I hope you are too!
That’s all for now!