May work schedule and personal update.

Hi guys!

I apologize for the delay with delivering the last few rewards corresponding to the month of April. As you probably noticed, I had major delays during the last couple of months. In reality I have been having a number of personal issues that have kept me from reaching my goals these days.

I try to not involve my personal affairs, but someone told me I should probably tell you all when something important happens. The thing is, that me being a father of two kids has been an extremely complicated and difficult personal task. Not only my free time has been incredibly reduced as the kids grow, I also need to use more and more of my monthly earnings to pay for all the stuff the kids need. Taking care of my family along with having to work more has caused me to feel exhausted all the time. That complicates another issue I've had all my life, which is a tendency towards depression.

When I was a teenager I suffered of depression quite heavily. I managed to control it over time by working on my mental health, but ever since every time I feel tired for a long time, I start to feel that depression crawling back to pester me again. Sadly these days I have felt depressed and that doesn't help with making any of my daily tasks any easier, which in turn makes more and more daily tasks accumulate and make me feel worse. It's a vicious cycle that I'm working on breaking, but that's affecting many aspects of my life including my work.

Add on top of that, many other common problems that decided to strike at the right time, like problems with my taxes, family issues, house repairs, etc. In short, life has not been easy on me recently, and I have noticed how that makes me work slower than usual and have less concentration.

I want to be perfectly clear that I'm not trying to justify any flaw on my side, since I'm pretty sure you all are dealing with your own issues everyday. I just want to explain why you may have noticed my work has been slower than usual. I may require to take some time to rest in the future, but I'll let you know when that happens. For now, all I ask from you is patience.

Since the month of May has five fridays, I decided to use this week to finish all delayed work and tackle next week as if it was the first week of May. That means that you're gonna see Moonlace comic pages on friday 10th and 24th of the month, and Bethellium updates on friday 17th and 31st of the month.

Zoana's short story that's gonna be called "The Lonely Alchemist" is fully written and I'm now just awaiting the auction winner to read it and give me their thoughts. The cover of the story is also finished and awaiting for approval. I sincerely hope to be able to deliver Patreon's monthly rewards in time during May, because that also helps me feel better and more confident that I have things under control. But we'll see what happens.

Anyway, I hope you don't mind much the venting. I try to avoid it as much as possible.

I'll probably write another personal update by the end of May, when we get closer to finishing Chapter 3 of Moonlace.

Thanks a lot for your amazing support and patience!