State of the Yoonian, December 2025

I was asked by a reader for an update on all of my various publishing projects. I am nothing if not response to my readers' every last whims and fancies. So here it is.

• First, I have now more or less completed fulfilling the Yoon-Suin 2nd edition Kickstarter, now also on general sale. (Note, there are only roughly 25 copies left from the initial 2,500 book print run. There will not likely be another.) I still have to do some podcasts promised to the highest level backers of that KS, to come in the new year, but apart from a few tiny little snags to untangle with some individual customers the project is otherwise done.
• The next thing to do is get The Great North Kickstarter ready to go in roughly March-April. All the text and art for The Great North has been completed. It only needs to go through layout. Since I now have a good set up for printing and distribution and a better understanding of logistics and costs, I know that I can fulfil this one more easily and cheaply in terms of shipping than previous projects. I am very much looking forward to this as I am immensely proud of the contents of this book. 
• After that I would like to begin work in earnest on Behind Gently Smiling Jaws. This has gone through various evolutions and is now a fully-fledged campaign setting in which the action takes place long after the Crocodilian Apocalypse has remade the world.
• There are four other projects I have been turning over in my mind and which I may choose to do alongside or instead of BGSJ:
• The Paladin Project, which tries to apply OSR principles on the basis that the PCs are unselfconsciously the good guys
• Writing a fantasy gamebook
• The Pre-Apocalypse world, set in a fantasy version of The Book of Jubilees
• The September Kingdom; where Yoon-Suin is fantasy Tibet, and The Great North is fantasy Northumberland, this would be fantasy Suffolk

This year was extremely tough personally - not in a woe-is-me sort of way, but rather in a crikey-I-really-have-taken-on-too-much sort of way. Happily that is now getting easier and I am looking forward very much to reconnecting with a creative side which has not had sufficient freedom of expression in the last 12 months or so. 

An ongoing, background rumbling problem is my ongoing sense of paranoia that at some point Google will yank the plug on Blogger, and what to do if that happens.