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A Long Overdue Update

*Image of A.L.S. Vossler’s Funeral Folder taken 2019 by Chris Vossler*

This update is coming far too late in the process, but it’s been far too difficult to make this public on this forum before now.

Tragically, A.L.S. Vossler (Amy) lost her decade-plus battle with Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and suicidal thoughts on December 5, 2018. She had struggled to fight off the depression that threatened to drown her ever since her parents’ deaths in December 2017, but on that fateful night, the depression overwhelmed her. Her death has left a gaping hole in the hearts of all who knew and loved her, one which will never be filled.

Amy left an enormous body of unfinished writings, from Scylla, the sequel to her debut novel Charybda, to two entire planned trilogies of books set in entirely different universes and working within entirely different magical structures. And everything in between. It will be impossible to publish these novels exactly as Amy intended – some are little more than basic story concepts – but I intend to publish as much as I can as best as I can. Unfortunately, this means that there may be a long wait for books like Scylla to be published.

Lessons in Publishing, Part 2

There are some things you just are not prepared for. All the work that goes into publishing a book is one of them. Like how to make a non-pixilated cover for your paperback, for example.

When Words Collide

When Amy was preparing Charybda for publication 2 years ago, I did not realize just how much work that entailed. For Charybda, Amy did all of the work herself: writing and most of the editing, of course, but also everything to do with formatting. She designed her own cover – both the front cover and the full paperback cover, formatted the book for print and ebook, and wrote the description for the back cover (and Amazon description). All of that sounds pretty straightforward in describing it. None of it is nearly that simple.