Hi all,

I’ve changed my mind. I want to get going again sooner than later, so Winter Rain will be returning Monday, January 5 at 03:00 ET with WR61.

Without going into too much detail, the demands on my time have changed, and the next six months are going to be very busy ones for me. As a result, Winter Rain is going to a weekly update schedule—I’ll be posting new installments each Monday at 03:00 ET. It’s not ideal, I know, especially since some of the installments are pretty short, but I think it’s the best I can do.

Thanks to all of you for your understanding and I hope I can look forward to your continued readership in this new year.

Chris.

Hi all,

It’s time I level with you all, because my hoping for the best isn’t producing tangible results.

Due to real-life circumstances (that I don’t want to go into), I’ve been a little preoccupied, lately. It’s leaving me with little focus for the story, right now. I hate to call this a “hiatus”, because I still hope I can occasionally write something, but, realistically, the very best I can do in the coming weeks is one part per week, and even that may prove a stretch. My advice is to take the rss feed and not bother coming by unless there is something on it.

Rest assured that I remain committed to the story, and will be finishing it. I just have bigger issues to deal with, right now. Thanks for your understanding.

Chris.

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that Chapter 6 will start Tuesday (October 28). Also, I need some more time for other projects (ie. the kind that pay bills), so I’ll be officially dropping to two updates a week (Tuesday and Thursday), probably for the rest of the year.

Chris.

Hi all,

Bad news first: I need more time on another project, which means I need to spend less time on Winter Rain.

Good news: I’m still going to update three days a week. Sort of. Winter Rain will be updated Tuesdays and Thursdays. From now on, on Saturdays, I’m going to run serialized short stories set in the Winter Rain universe, under the title Winter Rain Tangents. Here you’ll find events preceding Winter Rain, or told from the gaps, or maybe even told from other perspectives.

I’m writing Tangents stories in one go, but serializing them in parts. This means two things. First, you can rely on them being published on time, Saturday mornings. Yay! And second: you can gain early access to the whole story, if you just can’t wait, in exchange for some publicity. Details are posted on the most recent Tangent.

So, hopefully, it’s a compromise we can all be happy with. Thanks, as always, for your continued readership. I really appreciate it!

And now, without further ado: Chance Encounter.

Chris.