So I never actually got covid... It was weird... My wife had covid, I was stuck in the same house with her the whole time, I even got sick. But all my tests came back negative. I still ended up stuck in quarantine for a little over a month. I had to stay in quarantine the whole time she was sick with it, and then after she was finally released to leave quarantine I had to stay in quarantine for a further 2 weeks just to make sure I hadn't caught it at the last moment, after I got tested. So yeah... I never got it... But that left me out of work for a month and then right after I started getting hit with a lot of unexpected expenses. So now I'm busy working paid commissions to try and get the bills taken care of. Which is why there haven't been many updates on my stories. I know everyone...
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This is just a quick update on my plan to upload as much of the stuff I currently have already written and waiting for me to proofread. I'm still doing that. I want as much of it up and available now in case I end up getting really sick. (See my last blog post about having covid) It may seem like it's going slow but that's because everything has to be proofread before I post it, but there's still more on the way. Here's what I wanted to say though... You may notice a lot of what's going to be going up is Yiffpunk related. I apologizes to those of you who aren't big on the Yiffpunk setting and would rather see more Miss Smalls, Nolly, or dinosaur stuff... That's just what I happen to have ready at the moment... I'll try to find some other stuff as I go through my finished and waiting...
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So it finally happened. We tried so hard to be careful but I guess when you work for the public, and the public doesn't care about being careful, it's only a matter of time... Both myself and my wife, the lovely Violet S. Hunter who edits all of my commercially published books, have Covid now. Test results came in today. So that's fun... And by fun I mean not at all... Violet started showing symptoms before me, and it hasn't been very bad for her. She hasn't even had to go to the hospital or anything, but it's only just now starting to hit me. So we are still waiting to see if I get just as lucky or not. I'm hopeful I'll also have a mild case, but you never really know with these things... So I'm currently working on proofreading as much of my written work that I currently have finished...
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Well, bills are coming in and work hours are short. So I'm opening up slots for story commissions at the moment. Three slots for the moment but as of typing this, one is already taken. If anyone is interested, you can view my commission sheet here.
https://aryion.com/g4/view/651495

I took a break a couple of months ago after my mice all got sick and died. I needed some mental health time to myself. Then after I was done with that I didn't come right back to things over here. I instead decided to take some time to work on published works. I wanted to work on a follow up to my published Yiffpunk novel. (For those of you who are familiar with the Yiffpunk stories I've been posting here... same world, different cast of characters.) I've actually written three new novels in the published series and those should start hitting publication as soon as my editor gets finished with them. But now that I've gotten that out of the way, I intend to get back to working on things here. I tried to finish up Miss Nolly's Spring Break during Shark Week but then things came up and I...
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As I mentioned in my last blog post, all my pet mice were dying. We found out it was Rodent Coronavirus. I only had one mouse, Miss Bianca, left. And I wasn't doing any writing while I'm going through all of this.

Update: Miss Bianca died a few hours ago. I spent the entire day with her, doing my best to nurse her back to health, but just before midnight she died while I held her. It was not an easy death. This virus doesn't do that. But as horrible as it was, I was not going to let her die alone. I held her and kept her calm until she was gone. Then I cried and raided the liquor cabinet. I'll be spending Sunday bleaching out all my cages and on Monday I have to make a trip into the city to pick up the new mice the pet store is offering to replace the ones I just lost....
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So a little known fact about me is that I keep pet mice. I have a long history with mice going all the way back to childhood when I unexpectedly received two as a Christmas gift, and just as unexpectedly became a mouse breeder. I don't breed them anymore but I still like to keep a few as pets. I love my mice dearly. I'm like Willard, if Willard was a woman and kept mice instead of rats. (Although I haven't figured out how to train them to kill my boss yet...) The last two weeks have been very hard on me though and I haven't gotten any work done because of it. It's been two weeks of pain and stress and a little bit of crying myself to sleep at night. For the last two weeks I've been dealing with my adorable little fur babies getting sick and dying one after the other. I have never...
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Now that season 1 of Miss Smalls is finished I'm planning to put it all into a collected volume for publication for anyone who wants to own the whole thing in a single book. Maybe even some bonus material like an exclusive bonus story or something. I'm not sure yet. And this means I'm getting some Miss Smalls art commissioned to serve as cover art for the book. I've already commissioned one of my favorite artists to work with to draw the character art for the cover. So hopefully in a few days everyone will be able to get their first visual look at Clawdette Smalls.

So for anyone wondering why I haven't been uploading fresh content, or publishing new books, or doing literally anything I said I would do, here's an update. I got screwed over by the coronavirus, just like many other people. No, I didn't catch it, thankfully. I'm still healthy, for the moment. But my entire state got put on lock down. This means that no one is able to leave their homes unless they are leaving for essentials or they are considered an essential employee. And I work for the county government, which means I'm sadly an essential employee. Here's why this is a bad thing. With the state on lock down, all county offices have been dropped down to minimum staff. Which means in order for us to keep working while operating on minimum staff, everyone's hours have been cut down to the...
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So at this point we still don't know what I have/had. The doctor was never able to figure it out because I kept testing negative for everything. The best he could do was give me a new medication and refer me to a specialist. Although at this point the specialist still hasn't called me back. I'm starting to think they never will. The medication the doctor gave me though seems to be working but I'm worried about when I run out. I don't know if this stuff is going to just take care of it on its own, of if everything will just flare back up the moment I run out.
But to make matters worse, I've now got a debt collector on my tail about an unpaid bill from a hospital visit three years ago. I was sure I had already paid that off but after two days of playing phone tag with hospitals and...
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