High Tide Episodes 19: Some Necessary Background, 20:  Meanwhile, Back on the Yacht, and 21: Worrying As a Hobby are all live on Kindle Vella. Go forth, read, enjoy.

So, an update: I’m now two weeks out from surgery, my left jaw and lower lip are slowly coming back online, my neck is still swollen but the incision is healing beautifully, and I can eat most foods if I cut it into small pieces, chew carefully, and sip something between bites (anything hard, really crunchy, or spicy is still off the menu for the foreseeable future).

More importantly, I managed to chunk out 936 words today and I’m going to be posting High Tide eps on Kindle Vella every day this week to make up for the two weeks I wasn’t able to write (so much for creating an episode bank). I’m hoping to have the book done by mid-November, which will allow me to release it around mid-December. I’m not going to put Hurricane Warning out on Vella so that I don’t have to wait the mandatory 30 days from my last episode post to publish, so you might get that before the end of the year but it’s more likely that you’ll get it in mid-January. I’m sorry about that, but it’s amazing how developing cancer and having to have four teeth, gum tissue, and a strip of jawbone removed cuts into your writing time.

Speaking of that, I have an appointment with my chemo oncologist tomorrow, at which point I’ll learn the stage of the cancer and what comes next. Fingers crossed.