Another slowish week, but there’s something important down in the miscellaneous section you should definitely read.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Blades of Glory: Made some decent progress over what may well be the last full writing weekend for the next several weeks. I passed the 40,000 work mark so I am very close to the approximate halfway point in the story.

Action Figures – Issue Seven: The Black End War: First draft finished.

Action Figures – Issue Eight: Crawling from the Wreckage: First draft finished.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Rough plotting in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins: Audiobook recording in progress.

APPEARANCES and EVENTS

• Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23, 11 AM to 4 PM: New Bedford Book Festival.
• Saturday, September 16: The Connecticut Renaissance Faire at the Lebanon Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT.

MISC.

Over the weekend, a friend passed away after her second fight with cancer.

Her real name was Alexandra Hastings, but a lot of people knew her as “Calypso Bordeaux,” co-founder and leader of the all-woman stage combat performance troupe the Vixens En Garde. She was a talented, delightful woman who surrounded herself with equally talented, delightful women in the Vixens. I have yet to meet a member of the group who isn’t awesome.

A crowdfunding page was set up for her, originally with the intent of helping defray her medical care, but now it’s to help her husband and young son endure what is unquestionably the hardest time of their lives. Even if you never met her or saw her perform, consider making a donation to the family.