WHAT's NEXT for Edilya's Substack?
The answer soon will be… MORE ROMO! Book Two is in the offing!!
Hello
Thank you for bearing with me thus far, whether you are an early adopter or a new follower, Paid Subscriber (yes! I do have a handful or two!) or Free Subscriber.
We’re still picking up new Subscribers, steadily and almost every week, which is very gratifying… Big shout out to Steve Cook’s Secret Oranges for bringing in a great many of those. Also, something of a comics community begins to build on this here site. I like to think that I have in part helped that to happen, in my own small (press) way.
ITEM!
I set out with the frequency of Regular Weekly Postings, and this is largely to let you know that those WILL RESUME shortly, just as soon as I am able. During these inbetween times - of weeks that have turned into a few months, when postings have been more infrequent - I’ve been busily shepherding at least one of my books, as previewed here, into reality as a deluxe print production. It took a LOT, folks!
I say ‘deluxe’ and I do mean deluxe… and delightful!
Photo courtesy of my print liaison Murray Sale at Hensel Communications Limited. Good guy!
So, my apologies for the relative lack of activity in recent times. That’ll soon change, so STICK WITH ME and the rewards will be many and regular and apparent!!
If things work out, I fully expect to be back in force come November this year, 2025.
For the moment, do make full use of the ARCHIVE section on here, on the home page within the app, where you will find, for now at least, Two Full Books from me… as posted on a weekly basis, chapter by chapter, page by page, until they were completed.
One is a prose novel, THE CIRCLE SQUARED (a dystopian Near Future Fiction I was redrafting from a book I originally wrote back in 2018. Only trouble is, an awful - and I do mean AWFUL - lot of it came true during the intervening years. I surprised myself. You’ll have to read it to see for yourself, and believe. Am I a prophet of doom?)
The other book you’ll hopefully come to know and love if you haven’t already, is my Original Graphic Novel (now in print!), ROMO the WolfBoy (book 1).
All 223 story pages can be found on here, starting at the very beginning (the printed book includes extras and so has a page count of 256!). Probably around the time that the retail edition hits shops, expected to be 26 February 2026, I may or may not remove some or all of this material for the first book from free view on here, so as not to impact on potential sales. Fret not, as by then the free content of and for Book Two will be well advanced and in continual progress on here, for you all to endure, I mean, enjoy!
I am anyway in two minds about this potential removal of some (but not all!) of the archived material, since the audiences who screenread and those who prefer their reads to be in print format are wildly divergent and very different. What say you…?
Stay tuned, and we’ll see!
NOVEMBER 2025
And a little further exciting NEWS. By far the most popular* among the original weekly postings for Book One were the occasional Production Blog ones, showing off Process and other behind-the-scenes Trade Secrets and Treats. So this time it won’t be done like before, sharing every single page as it is created (except perhaps for my Paid Subscribers - I have to give them something for their extra level of cash injection support!). This next year and a half of weekly posts will ALL be a Production Blog.
*And by popular, I mean these were the ones that got me the likes, the rare comments.
I hope that suits everyone and even thrills a few of you. Be sure to let me know your thoughts! Likes and comments are my only reward for the most part in sharing these stories of mine with you. They help keep me going and I appreciate every single one!
Thank you, one and all. X
Me too!
Bye for now. Buy for now!! BUY in February. If you can’t wait get in touch…
Thank you, Noah. Don't hold your breath, though, I think that is almost a year away from now. Publishing wheels move rather slowly. Meantime you will be able to follow and enjoy progress on Book Two on here! So that's a bone-us X
Nice of you to stay, but you've still got YOUR COPY of Book One to look forward to! Soon come.
Thank you for your support, Peter! I warned you, didn't I, that I plan to use your family name for a future character in one of the next books of ROMO. Do hope that's OK with you x