Chad J. Maske's Blog

An up and down week. I won't go into all the details, but things conspired to keep me only at par, and that was a bit of a stretch. Otherwise, I have no new updates on anything. Moonrise Audiobook is still not live on audible. I'm tempted to poke Podium to poke Audible to see what the hold up is. The other three audio books are also in limbo. I likely won't know how far they are until Podium is close to releasing the first. I'm guessing they'll all be released pretty close together, but we'll...

Oh boy... Some of you who are on me Patreon are likely aware, but last week and the beginning of this week have been... yikes. The last twenty-four hours have given me whiplash. The start of last week went terribly, a bout of insomnia followed by sleeping poorly, and I just was not able to write Monday and Tuesday. That said, I'm only 500 words behind for the week. I was going to try to make that up last night, but then Reddit drama happened. I won't go into detail, but let's just say I won't...

Good evening, a bit late with this today, but I had a bit of insomnia and now I have no energy. So its going to be a rough start to the week. That said, I had a very good week. Didn't 100% reach my stretch goal, but I'm definitely ahead for the week. Lost Mask is up to 130k words and I feel like the end is finally on the horizon. After I finish the scene I'm on, I have four more scenes before I move into the closing section of the book which should be three to five chapters. I know I said 3-4...

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing alright and got through April Fools day without incident. I don't have much news this week. Writing went up and down, but I managed to stay on par. I'm reaching the halfway point on the scenes I want to cover before moving to close out the book. Lost Mask is up to 122k and still on track for 150k words. In other news, Moonrise has a tentative release date of May 19th. As soon as I have the pre-order link, I'll post it everywhere. Also, Sharon Freedman...

Another week without much news. I had a rough week writing. It started out good and then just sort of dropped off from there. I kept waking up early and my neighbors sounded like they were trying to come through the ceiling. This left me tired at work and it was just hard to write. I was also trying to figure out the details for the scenes I want to write before I get to the conclusion. As of writing this, I've had a par week, but that includes the five hundred words I've already written...

Not much to report this week. I'm still in limbo on the audiobooks and I had a par week. That being said, Lost Mask has a rough plan for how I'm going to end the book. I'm looking at about eight to ten scenes in the current section, and then three to four chapters to close out the book. The scenes in the current section may not take up a full chapter each, but we'll see. This means we're still looking at about 30-40k words, putting me right around the predicted 150k mark, but we'll see how...

Not much to report this week. The narrator for The Ashes series has been selected. I doubt they'll be doing a live performance, so to be safe and not violate my contracts at all, I'll wait to announce who it is until the first book has a release date or I notice the narrator has announced it themselves somewhere. Otherwise, I've had a fairly standard week. I'm safe and staying inside until this snowstorm passes. I hope everyone has a good week. Project Status Lost Mask - 104,000: An on par...

Not much news to pass on this week. Tess finished recording, and I got some sleep. That's about all. I don't know when the audiobook version will be out. I'm guessing June or July. They have to give it to their editors, have Tess rerecord any small portions that need fixes, then it needs to be mastered and whatever else goes into making an audiobook. As for the Ashes series, waiting on Podium to come back with a short list of narrators, so right now, everything is in limbo. Project Status...

There is not much to tell this week. It was pretty much a repeat of last week. I got a little more writing done, but lack of sleep kept me from putting forward a full effort. Tess is getting pretty close to being done. She's not recording today, but indicated she's going to try to finish Tuesday. So I'm planning to grab the bull by the horns and try to play a bit of catch up. We'll see, but I'm definitely aiming to be above par for the week. I did commission a new piece of art and my artist...

Hiya! I had a surprisingly productive week, considering how I trashed my sleep schedule. It wasn't what I wouldn't normally consider on par for a week, but considering the work to prepare the Ashes series for audiobooks and listening in on Tess recording, I'm happy with the progress for the week. Listening in on Tess has been awesome, apart from nearly dying from mortification when she got to the first spicy section. Unfortunately, Tess caught a cold, so it may be a few days before she...