Update: Winding Down, Whew, plus Cover Reveal

All right, so this past week was slow in some ways but highly satisfactory in many important ways.

A) Last week, Haydee’s eye looked like it was healing. Right now, her eye looks a whole lot better to me. She’ll see the vet again this afternoon, and I hope that’ll be it. She is far, far less upset by eyedrops than, say, I would be, and when I pick up the bottle and look at her, immediately heads for the table and puts her feet up on the chair, waiting for me to pick her up and put her on the table and do the eyedrops, because of course she gets a yummy liver brownie afterward. She’s very keen on the liver brownies.

B) Ish’s prostate issue seems to be resolving, which is nice because it’s only been two weeks since he was neutered, so that’s fairly brisk as these things go. He’s on a diet for irritable bowel syndrome. I’ll be keeping track of his weight, but he seems fine to me at this point. He sleeps more than he used to, but he is 11.75 years old and he sure did look lively the last time he spotted a bunny in the yard. (Note to rabbits: stay out of the yard, you idiots, can’t you tell there are a million dogs in the yard?)

C) I’ve loaded Eight Doors at my Patreon, where it will go live tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug 12th. If necessary, I’ll correct any typos not later than the next Tuesday, Aug 19th. I’ll need to delete this book at Patreon no later than two weeks from that date, September 2, because it will go live at Amazon, including KU, on September 4th.

And it occurs to me that the cover was only just finished and therefore none of you have seen it, unless you happened to notice the preorder, which went live late last week. So first, it’s up for preorder at Amazon now, and second, here’s the cover: