Planning out the next couple of months, and thought you might like a glimpse of the schedule.
Art Projects
I try to do comic-related charitable donations, and this year I’m redoing the Mangina Kaiju slapdash art for a print. I thought long and hard about which charity should get the donations. Ideally, it’d be a women’s-centered organization, but there’s this thing called the Internet in which every single decision you make is dissected down to its bones and found lacking, and I didn’t want to promote any Stupid (e.g.: implying women are monsters, implying men are monsters, implying the female reproductive system shall rise from the sea and throttle us all and aaaaaah!). So all proceeds will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association, which is a cause near and dear to my heart. Fuck Alzheimer’s.
Also, Halloween is coming up. I try to do some sort of art pinup. This year, I’m thinking some members of the comic’s cast dressed as characters from Penny Dreadful, but I’m still open to suggestions.
Novels
The third Rachel Peng novel has a title, and the cover art is in draft stage.
I’m still playing around with the idea of releasing a Hope Blackwell novel at the same time. These books would deal with one or two of the same plot elements and events would align chronologically, but from the perspectives of Rachel (no ghosts) and Hope (all of the ghosts, oh God so many ghosts). With Patreon as a supplemental salary, it is more likely that I can afford to take the time to do this than it was a few months ago. However, this would push the release of both books back until mid-2015.
Patreon
Beyond awesome. Simply beyond awesome. I’m eating so much crow about this, and it is delicious crow! You were right, I was wrong, and I hope you’re happy!
Now, what to do with all of these collected dick jokes? I want to release the older, stale ones that Patreon supporters have already seen to encourage newcomers to become supporters themselves. I’m leaning towards a Tumblr account that receives a huge batch update of dick jokes every three months or so, but I’m open to suggestions. My rationale for using a Tumblr is that it’s got zero overhead, requires minimum time investment, and gets massive traffic and reblogs. Any other ideas?
Kickstarter
Digital Divide is done, but Maker Space is still in recording phase. Summer was a rough time for my family, and also for the woman who is doing the reading for the audiobooks. We’re likely going to resume recording on Maker Space later this month.
I’m arting all of the arts on the other Kickstarter gifts, so hopefully I can get these out in one large push.
Giveaways
Several generous people purchased extra copies of Digital Divide and Maker Space and told me to donate these to readers in need. I’d like to do something nice, but the usual “Retweet this to be entered in my contest!” is both annoying and dull. How about a Post-It contest? Write GIMME BOOK! on a Post-It and send in a photograph of where you stuck it… I dunno. That’s the best I’ve got right now.
I Know I’m Forgetting Something
I know I’m forgetting something.
I’m Totally Forgetting Something
Yeah, I’m aware.
Seriously, This Is Going To Bug Me All Day
I’m just gonna hit Publish now, okay?
K.B. SPANGLER 
I am going to exercise restraint and simply inform you I am looking forward to the potential release of a Hope Blackwell novel. I cannot think of a way to indicate my level of interest without coming off as too excited, or creepy, or fanboyish.
I look forward to your having the time and funding to write a Hope Blackwell novel, for all the same reasons as everyone else plus one of my own.
Would this putative novel include, or allude to, any koalas?
Yes, there would definitely be koalas.
As much as waiting longer for a new Rachel novel pains me, I’m with the other folks…would love to see a Hope novel, and would me more’n willing to wait to get both.
Hope and Rachel novels in the same year??? *drifts off into dreamspace at the very thoughts*