July Newsletter

Kickstarter is almost done and there's a new cat in town!

Author

John B
July 08, 2025

Hey besties it has been a while. Big news!

All right so last month we had inkon which was the immersive ink convention. Immersive Ink is the Discord Server behind Novelizing.

I'm a booster of the Discord server and I spent about 4 months planning for that intervention. It was a smashing success beyond anything I could have imagined. There were a lot of well-attended panels. I did the keynote the speech and I also did a panel on Villains.

At some point in time that panel is going to come up here and you can enjoy that.

I also did a recent short story that I'm going to post in a different blog note at some point in time. I should have that up before this so check that out.

I have two big news announcements that I want to let you know about. I'm right off the bat one is that bodega cat is out and I'm going to update my front page to update that it's my current work. It is a daily web serial. It will be 5 days a week starting on July 19th or something like that.

You can find it here:

Kickstarter mini update!

I am in the final rounds of sending out my proofs for edit for my Caravan blades book 1. Caravan of Blades has been my first Kickstarter and I learned a ton during it and now I am going to do a print run and see how that works.

This is going to kind of function as a blog post and a newsletter because I have got a lot of stuff to update. Once I've sent out the final printing of Caravan then I will start the second Kickstarter.

One of the things that I learned during this experience was that I want the book to be done fully before I even commit to a Kickstarter and then I can just print it. I'm probably going to do our Madison book through Kickstarter later and just do the book. Just do print on demand and that'll be so much easier because I also have to coordinate with all the cards.

So I'm going to put order the prints. I'm going to order some cards and then I'm going to push on the second Kickstarter. If everything looks good then I will be on track.

Shout outs!

Check out POPE PUG!

It really needs no other introduction.

Also check out my buddy tims book!

“Hey. Wanna buy a dungeon?” Kai looked up at the human salesman. He looked down at himself. At the salesman. At himself. At the salesman. In a tone that clearly asked, ‘Are you stupid?, he stated, “I’m a gremlin.” “Don’t you worry, sir. This here is a contract for purchase with payments deferred, with annual sums owing as a percentage of revenue. A starter plan for the discerning gentleman dungeon master.” Torn from a boring and unfulfilling human life on Earth, Kai was mysteriously sent to a new world and transformed into a gremlin for…reasons. He hasn’t figured that part out yet, but he sure as heck is going to punch whoever’s responsible in the frickin’ face one day. He’s also going to do just about whatever it takes to become human again. When a super shady salesman appears out of nowhere, offering to sell him a magical dungeon core with no down payment and no money upfront, a deal seemingly too good to be true, he’s starving at the time and more interested in the edible signing bonus. But when he finally gets around to planting the core, he truly is the proud new owner of a dungeon. Well, the start of one. He’s gonna have to level the puck out of it. If he gets it to 100 floors, the gods will grant any wish.