The Newsletter | 26 April 2026
Welcome to the Newsletter
The Shop Will Close In May
Anything that’s listed in the shop under the Legacy Roleplaying category is going to be pulled at the end of May. If there are things you want, get them soon.
No More Books
Starting now, I’m not working on any more long-form content. Everything will be articles, essays, and short-form works like the roleplaying scenarios. These may be published later as anthologies or collections, but everything that’s innately over around 10 pages has been removed from the schedule.
Story at the Table
Roleplaying-related writing will all be published under the heading Story at the Table. It will appear on lightspress.com, Substack, and Patreon. The articles themselves will be free. Downloads will be included on Patreon for paid subscribers, and for sale a la carte on lightspress.com and Patreon.
The Narrative Core
Writings of interest to readers, writers, and film lovers will be released exclusively on my other Substack, The Narrative Core. Everything is free for the moment, although you can become a paid subscriber to support the work. This material won’t be mirrored elsewhere, including on the lightspress.com site.
Why This Is Happening
In early March, an ongoing health issue… changed. That’s all I want to say at this point, but I need to acknowledge it. I can no longer do what I used to be able to do, the way I used to be able to do it. Finding a way forward has been a challenge, ending with me having to admit that I need to scale down operations to what I can still manage with these new, reduced capabilities. While nothing is life-threatening and possibly not even permanent, everything needed to be reworked to fit the current reality.
At the same time, we have a world on fire, Amazon doing things that seem to foreshadow their abandonment of publishing, Barnes & Noble implementing new policies that will hurt small publishers and indie authors (and, I predict, are likely to be picked up industry wide), Draft2Digital making moves that blow up my whole business model, ideological witch hunts making me second-guess every decision I make, and… well, you live in the same world I do, and see most of the same things I see, sans maybe the “inside publishing” stuff.
I need to manage my stress levels and somehow still make a living. I’ve spent weeks now wandering through the long dark tea-time of the soul, figuring out what to do and how to keep going. Everything that’s been removed from my plate falls into one of three buckets, and sometimes more than one:
This is work that I am physically and mentally incapable of doing anymore.
This is not profitable and therefore not the best use of my time.
This isn’t something I want to do anymore.
I don’t have the luxury of simply stopping, so the best I can do is slow down.
How to Help
As I get a new workflow into place and continually assess what my capacity is, realistically, your support continues to be appreciated.
Buy things from lightspress.com, until I shut it down to streamline the site and behind-the-scenes operations.
Join Patreon as either a free or paid member.
Subscribe to my Substack publications if those interest you.
Leave comments, share posts, tell people, and help me build an audience in these new places.
You are appreciated.
