JillBearup

Sales Rank 17!!!

On Barnes and Noble! Ahhhhh!!!! 😊

See you an hour :) (or on the replay)

Link again for today's livestream. See you soon!

More Q&A :)

There were questions! I also answered all the previous questions, because why not?

2023.11.18 1600 GMT The NO-Vember Livestream

Not that I say no to you, obviously, but I have been editing a Q&A with many nos in it :D

Hope to see you Saturday!

(GMT, not BST)

We are ON OUR WAY (to paperback pre-orders)

I got the final typeset PDF of the paperback at midnight (so…this morning, I guess) and now…we wait 😂

BOOK FAQS (you already know these things but here we are)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7uRB9k19U Yes, Ekij, people do ask the same questions a lot. So I thought I'd compile a handy FAQ for them :D

Livestream on 18th, 1600 GMT (link to follow)

Hello! With apologies to Anders, this months livestream will be on Saturday the 18th November, and I hope to have a plethora of good news to share! 😊

Link to follow when I am not on my phone 😂

A Very Specific Set of Skills

Yes, I have been Making The TikToks again. I know. :D

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/IDECQ6r4tyA

Typeset copy is back!

Yay, the typeset book is looking good, just proofing and uploading to go! (Also I have looked at fourteen different houses in the last two weeks and I am TIRED. And I still haven't found a house. Sigh.)

YouTube link for those of you who can't see Patreon videos: 2023-11-04 07:52:51 +0000 UTC View Post

I just got...

The typeset PDF of Just Stab Me Now for proofing, and guys. It's so beautiful. SO BEAUTIFUL. I have attached some photos so you can see how beautiful.

Proofing starts...soon, if you already volunteered to be a proofreader I will get in touch next week, but for everyone else: gaze upon the m...

A Lockwood & CoNsPiRaCy (also, rapiers!)

Hope you enjoy this video, which is the last swordy one for a while (unless I get very inspired in November). The campaign to get me to watch Lockwood & Co. finally worked :D

Link for those of you for whom Patreon videos are tricksy: 2023-10-21 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Livestream today in...2 hours? Yeah, let's go for that :D

See you there! Or maybe on the replay :)

Amazon Knows Nothing, an explanatory video

Remember I mentioned some Amazon woes with paperback pre-orders? Let me explain :)

Livestream link: 2023.10.14, 1600BST

The link for Saturday, for those of you who are coming, and the place where you can watch the replay if you can't make it at that time!

See you soon!

Livestream next Saturday (14th October 1600BST)

Link to follow when I am compos mentis, but that’s when we’re doing the thing, because the week after is half term!

Just making sure I give you adequate notice. Or…vaguely adequate notice, anyway. Hope to see you then!

Hawkhurst

I have not managed to find the piece of paper on which I drew this picture, but apparently Past Me was quite astute and took a photo in case I lost it.

Thus I present the map of the Hawkhurst home that I used when I was trying to figure out who was going where and when and with whom 😁 2023-10-05 18:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Are we being topical? Yes, a bit, but also Guild Wars.

If you think to yourself 'hey, I don't know if I've seen my request', do let me know, I will probably remember if I've covered it or not. That said I might not remember which video I covered it in so we might need to go digging :)

Hope you're all having a good Friday, and that you have a lo...

Livestream today in (checks notes) 8 hours!

Yay! It's good to be back. See you at 1600 BST (or on the replay, whatever's good for you) :)

A Little Armour Review :)

Having put together what were (I thought) the last of the armour requests from Patrons into one big 18 minute video (still editing) I have uhh...found some more in my email inbox. So thanks to the magic of editing time, you get them first! Enjoy!

May I Introduce: the Sword Lady Books logo :)

Yes, I have swapped the handle over, and yes, I will now have to fix all the merch :D Possibly we can think of the other version as a limited edition print?

Hope you're all well, I am working on not one but TWO armour videos right now, one of which is 18 minutes long. Wish me chocolate!

If Characters Were Held Hostage By The Author

I put this up on TikTok and then I thought: you know, I bet some of my Patrons would appreciate seeing a reading from the current JSMN draft, I should put it on here too :)

Video I'm referencing: 2023-09-15 12:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post

September Livestream - we're back!

Not this Saturday but the one after, friends, 2023.09.23 at 1600 BST, we are back for our regularly scheduled livestream. :) I will be very glad to talk to you all again. Any questions about life, the universe, everything? Pop them in a comment or ask in the live chat next week! Hope to see you t...

COVER REVEAL :D

And a lot of blithering about the things that I now need to go get Scott to fix! Full front cover in HD also attached to this post if you'd like to see it without me waving it around.

A VIDEO, no, for real, a proper video!

(happy sigh) It's nice to be back. Hope you enjoy it :)

Today in Adventures in Self Publishing...

My wonderful cover artist has sent me a PDF of the (not-entirely-finished) cover so I can order a couple of proof copies on Amazon, see what they look like, is matte or glossy better, all that jazz.

The first picture is of part of the front and the spine, as seen in the PDF.

The next ...

All The News That's Fit to Film

Hope that everyone's doing well, here is our plan for the next few months, and also NEWS!

Just Stab Me Now v6 (or: ARC v1.1)

Friends it has been Quite The Time, so much stuff happening here in The Bearup House. I will be making an update video for you soon, but I have just sent this draft off for copy editing (last step before formatting and proofing and PUBLISHING, eep!) and so I present it to you. All 80,000 words of...

Ebook preorders now available! AHHHH!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am overjoyed to announce that I...worked out how to do Kindle preorders on Amazon, yeah! And we have a release date! And a fake cover! So if you are in the market for a convenient ePub version of Rosamund and Caroline's adventures, then this is where you can do it!  2023-08-01 16:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post

An Update!

I look very tired. Because I am. But I am doing a lot better, so uh...here we are :) 

Also this video has been uploaded to Patreon itself, rather than being a YouTube embed. Why? Because Patreon won't let me just copy over the link of the YouTube video. But uh...never mind?

I hop...

A Knight's Tale!

Friends, Romans, countrymen: a wild video appears! 

Thank you, as always, for your patience. I have handed over my book draft to my new editor, and so have had the brain space to make a video, hooray! I hope you like it. 

Unfortunately my brain is mush right now, so I don't ...