Here's three more pages of the side story for you. :) Meanwhile, I'm out at Anime Nebraskon for the weekend... I'm actually writing this a day ahead or so, as I try to pack and make sure I've gathered everything up and try to not freak out. Good luck on that part... this con crept up on me again.

I'm working on Chapter 7 as part of NaNoMangO, with the goal of finishing the chapter in the month. While it probably won't happen, it'll keep me on task well enough to get a lot of it accomplished. While I've currently got the side story scheduled for 7 weeks, nothing would make me happier than to be able to cut it back from that time, and I will certainly be updating here and on Twitter with my status. (At the time of writing this, which is Wednesday, I have three pages pencilled and a boatload of designs done.)

I'd better finish my packing. See you at the con!

Happy Halloween! Today starts the few weeks of the side story (which I hope to trim back, so pages might start clumping up more as it goes along), as I finish work on Chapter 7... I don't blame you if you don't get to this until the weekend, though, since it is after all a holiday. I'll be out tonight myself. Shockingly enough. Enjoy!

And here's the last update of the chapter, and the ending of the first arc, more or less. Thumbnails are moving along nicely on the next chapter, which will hopefully not take me too long to finish... I'm trying a couple of new ways of doing the thumbnails, so I'll see how that affects the overall workflow.

Starting next week I'll be posting the short story from last Fallcon, "A Faith Like..." for a few weeks while I finish up work on 7.

And in two weeks, I'll be at Anime Nebraskon in Omaha! Stop by and say hi if you're there!

Fallcon was a ton of fun, thanks to everyone who stopped by and chatted with me, took a bookmark, or bought a book!

So... there's one update to chapter 6 left after this. Next week will be the conclusion of both this chapter, and the first part of the story... chapter 7 is, well, in progress right now. I've been busting out the thumbnails on it, but there's no way it'll be ready in two weeks, I'm afraid... so, for a few weeks following the end of chapter 6, you'll get the previously print-only side story "A Faith Like..." featuring Kikuko. It's set a few months before the start of the main storyline, and will connect back into chapter 7 a little. Not so much you'd suffer from not having read it, but between the fact that it hasn't been online yet, and the fact that I need a little time on this chapter, you'll now have the opportunity to read it here.