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Hello All! Welcome to 2026! This is the first of, hopefully, a long, new habit of providing updates to the many projects and stories and general life stuff going on around this den of chaos we call home. While not all of them will be long, wordy ordeals, I plan to include important updates each month on the progress of everything I have been working on. These will include character profiles, story progress, behind the scenes tales, and even questionnaires and surveys to help guide some of the tales into a new, exciting direction. So, without further ado, let’s jump right in: I currently have three novels in the works in various stages of completion/planning: The third installment of my flagship series A Minutemen Saga and two dark fantasy novels. A minutemen saga: Early summer last year, my publisher, Austin MacCauley, informed me that they would no longer be printing my Debut novel Hunter in the Storm and would be returning the copyright to me. So, it’s mine in its entirety once more. After discussing it with my wife, who is my largest critic, support, and editor, I will be re-releasing it as a kindle book on Amazon later this year. We will be re-editing it before release (I found some REALLY embarrassing typos and mistakes recently….so…..sorry about that). I am also considering including scenes that I had originally cut to slim it down to around 100,000 words. So, the re-release will most likely be longer than the original. The second Novel, Hunter in the Mountains, sold over 200 copies in its first year! Thank you so much to everyone who purchased a copy! The third installment of A Minutemen Saga has yet to give me a proper name, so I am still waiting for that lightning strike. A little backstory to this migraine inducing, Sisyphean labor: I had originally written it nearly a decade ago and it had been sitting on a thumb drive since. Shortly after finishing Hunter in the Mountains, I found the drive and fired it up……only to discover that the third book file had been totally corrupted and was irretrievable. So that sucked. I remembered the general tone, pace, and plot I had set for it, so yay. I figured I would be able to reproduce it in no time…..That was over a year ago. Soooo yeah. I’m working on it, promise! It is currently sitting at 150 pages and around 90,000 words and not even to the halfway mark. It is shaping up to be the longest in the series so far and I, for one, can’t wait to see where I go with it. I will say that the story dives deeper into the mentality and emotions of the Minutemen and their interactions with the other members and the outside world. Several new characters will be introduced, as well as a deeper look into the history of the Minutemen. The action will center on the upper mid-west this time. Montana or Minnesota, not quite sure yet. It will also introduce a new faction in the war. I’m hoping to complete the first draft by July, final edits by November. I’ll keep you all in the loop. A pet project I have been working on for years has been a series of short stories, hoping to expand the Minutemen Universe. Some are straight short stories detailing battles and ancillary characters and actions that will fill the gaps between novels and add further information. Some will be laid out like news reports or articles, hopefully giving some depth to the world at large. I’ve also been dabbling with creating insignias for the various units and factions, so keep an eye out for those. The last pet project I am working on for this series is the personnel files for all of the minutemen, adding some extra lore to this particular universe. Tyranny: Tyranny is a dark, medieval, sword and sorcery fantasy novel I started a couple of years ago during a particularly difficult writer’s block while trying to finish Hunter in the Mountains. I’m only a dozen or so pages in thus far but have begun to pick up speed on it. Unlike most of my works, where I begin writing and see where the story takes me, I have been laying out the plot, characters, and world of Tyranny. I have most of the main characters laid out, as well as the world they reside in, but I am still working on some of the important background details. Like populations of different areas, religions and beliefs, government types. I haven’t decided whether to make this project a standalone novel or the beginning of a new series, but I will keep you updated. Chaos Gremlin’s Fantasy Novel: The last project is brand new. Around Thanksgiving last year, I ran into a serious block while writing the third Minutemen book. Something that has always helped in the past is to start a new project. It helps distract me from the issues I am having with whatever project I am currently having trouble with. It also helps with inspiration a lot of times, giving me ideas to get around blocks or even take the story in a new direction. Since I was having writing issues with the Minutemen Project, I decided to start a new project. I decided to get my seven-year-old chaos gremlin to help me craft a new world. He jumped at the chance to help. First set of creatures he absolutely wanted: Zombies. Almost everything in his world right now revolves around zombies. Second demand: Radioactive lands, filled with zombies. So, we’ve been laying out a dark fantasy, sort of steam punky world where a large chunk of it is covered in radioactive lands filled with dozens of different types of zombies. I have decided to give him a lot of control of the narrative for this one. Can’t wait to see where it goes and what he comes up with. Kid’s got an imagination as big, if not bigger, than mine. So that’s it. All the updates on the current projects I have been working on lately. I’m going to try to make these updates a monthly thing. Some will be long; most will probably be a little shorter. Thanks for staying with me as long as you have. If I could ask one thing of everyone who enjoys reading, it’s this: Please leave reviews on whatever you read. Good reviews, bad reviews, it doesn’t really matter, any kind of engagement helps authors reach wider audiences and maybe new fans. Thank you for all the support and encouragement to keep writing, keep creating universes for others to enjoy! -C.M. Anthrop
March 2026 Welcome back, my psychotic Friends. I know I skipped the February newsletter, and I want to apologize to you all for doing that, but I had a really good reason: I just didn’t have anything to say. February was a drag, literarily speaking. I wrote maybe two thousand words across six novels I have been working on. A new personal low for me. Writer’s block is cruel and that little blinking icon on the page is a constant mockery. A certain scene in the third Minutemen novel was giving me hell, and it seemed like everything I wrote to get the scene moving again fell flat or felt forced and wrong. I’m still not totally happy with it, but maybe once my editor in chief goes over it, something better may develop. Still in the slower section of the novel, building up the background details and setting up the penultimate section before getting into the end game. The novel I’ve started with the resident gremlin has moved from preliminary planning to substantive world building. He has been hard at work building characters for his zombie horde while I have been working on the actual story and rest of the world. I am hoping to have the first of the storyline laid out by the end of April, with the first words going to paper around the first of May. It’s developing into a post-apocalyptic fantasy steampunk world. It should be interesting, we’re both excited and the wife thinks we’re just weird. On to Tyranny. We have officially moved from the first act and into the second. I have created or planned out an entire gallery of characters ranging from simple demons to near deific beings of questionable sanity. We are also past the thirty-thousand-word milestone! YAY ME! I can’t wait to see what happens next. During my February writing drought, I started writing a new novel to try and kickstart any ideas that could help me get past the writing block that had fully entrenched itself. Like most of my early writing, this is not a structured, planned out piece. This is a “put my fingers on the keyboard and write whatever pops into my head as I go” piece. I need a more succinct way of explaining that. So, in just under a thousand words, I have started a sword and sorcery and dinosaur book. It could be interesting, could be psychotic, definitely going to be fun and weird. It’s still too early to tell what the story is actually about, or who the characters are, or where it takes place, but I’ll let you know as we go. The last two works are little more than a couple hundred words with no true direction yet. One is a science fiction book set in a futuristic space setting, while the other is a fantasy mystery novel that had been tickling the back of my brain for a long time. So that is it for my writing ventures. I am moving forward steadily right now, hoping for a burst of inspiration and work to strike. So, let’s talk about the other things I’ve got cooking. If you are reading this, you’ve found my website, SemperImagine.com, so thank you for that. I ask you all be very patient with me as the website will be going through several changes over the next few months, so you may find it, or at least parts of it, unavailable at times. I am adding to the 3d print page for the most part. With the addition of a resin printer, I am expanding what I can offer. Currently I will be able to offer small figurines and tabletop character pieces, basic home products (wall hooks, key hangars, containers, etc.), custom lamps and dice sets, collector pieces, toys, and cosplay items (helmets, weapons, armor pieces, etc.). In the next couple of months, I will also be adding custom, hand bound journals to the site. Most of them will contain blank pages and basic covers while I get established. I am finalizing a massive drop of sticker designs for summer. For now, each link will take you to SEMPERIMAGINE’s etsy shop. I am also starting to query and reach out to traditional publishers/agents to find partners and homes for some of my other works as well as possibly for the Minutemen Series, so wish me luck. The last piece of news I have for this month is the upcoming Comic Fest at the Pickerington Public Library. This will be my third year participating in selling my 3d prints, stickers, and copies of my novels alongside some truly amazing authors and artists from around the Columbus area. So, if you are in or around Columbus or Pickerington the last Saturday in May, please stop by and say hey! Now something that I’ve been kicking around in my head: Honest Reviews of what I’ve read this month. This Month is a comic series called Lost in the Shuffle by Alex M. Clark. A story about two criminal friends, Quinn and Morgan, as they try to get $20,000 to pay off a gambling debt. After a planned heist goes terribly wrong, the duo now must dodge both the cops and the mob while Quinn tries to come to terms with his bad choices spiraling out of control. Morgan continues to try to help his best friend and pull him from the depression Quinn is falling into. The first issue ends with the duo buying a rusted-out car and fleeing town with the intention of speaking with Quinn’s estranged father. The story feels real, the struggles with choices that are known to be bad and the consequences behind those are visceral and relatable. The artwork is fantastic. Alex proves, once again, that he is a great artist and now an amazing storyteller. I definitely recommend this series to anyone who wants something both entertaining and relatable. While not the usual stuff I read, I can tell you that I could not put this down and reread it at least three or four times this month when I was stuck while writing. 9/10. Follow him on Instagram at @alexmclark78 for more of his content and find Lost in the Shuffle as well as more of his work on Amazon. Let me know if you’d like to see more recommendations in future newsletters! Whelp! That’s it for March. I will keep working, keep writing, keep being weird one (according to the Gremlin). Thanks for your support and time. Please leave reviews for all of the independent authors you know, every review, no matter how good or bad, helps increase visibility of their works. Catch you all next month! -C.M. Anthrop
