Where is KB?

I've been wondering that myself

Yeah, I know. I’ve been neglecting the interwebs lately. I’ll go stand in the corner and think about what I did.

Okay, I’m back. Long story short, I bit off a little more than I could chew with life in general and depression and exhaustion got the best of me. There are still plans for Kivati, but I will not be using it as a pen name. One alter ego is enough for me to manage, I don’t need any more.

I have been writing. My short story “Harmony” found its way into Chaos Theory: Biological Bedlam. You should definitely check it out. I’m really proud of that one, especially since I am among my good friends Logan Stovall and Jesse James Fain for my first venture into the world of anthologies.

I have written several short stories in the past few months, but I’ve been collecting rejections like Funko pops. I’m not upset about it. You win some and some just have’t found their homes yet. I still have a few out there that I am waiting on accepted/rejected emails to determine their fates. We will see what happens.

I’m hard at work on the first novel of my new science fiction series (that I don’t have an official title for yet, so for now I will refer to them as “The Ripperdan Chronicles”) It should be a fun read. The feedback so far has been great.

Other than that, I’ve just been trying to learn as much as I can. There’s so much more to writing than just having the ability to tell a good story, and I have become smart enough to know how stupid I actually am when it comes to the business end of all of this.

My health has improved enough that I have recently started working full time again. I was worried that it would interfere with my writing/learning time, but being back on a real schedule has actually increased my production. It doesn’t make sense to me, but I have never been one to argue with results.

I did turn on paid subscriptions. At the moment it will just be there for anyone who wants to show support, but is in no way expected. As I continue to figure things out with life and find something that I can actually commit to, I may post some paid sub only content, but for now, it is what it is. Maybe all of those homeless short stories will find their way into that. Who knows?

One thing I am very happy to be able to finally say is that I have quit smoking cigarettes. That was probably the main reason that I have felt overwhelmed by everything recently. I struggled for years trying to fight that particular problem, but as of now I am three months smoke free and I aim to keep it that way.

That’s it for this one I think. I appreciate every single one of you that has kept me going for the past few months. Some of you probably didn’t even realize you were doing it, but there’s been a lot of support from the writing community as a whole and I can’t thank you guys enough.

Until next time,

-KB