Finish Your Cosplay! ~ Inspirational and educational self-help for makers ~

Hi, friends! Exciting news for Finish Your Cosplay! this month: the stickers are here!!!

Please excuse the quick photos of them: I was so excited to share that I had no patience to edit to match 😅

I am just pleased as punch with the stickers. My illustrator Coffeelocks did just a spectacular job designing, illustrating, and lettering. I can't wait for these babies to arrive to ya!

Notepads are ALSO on the way - fingers crossed you'll get to see them for the May update.

Finally, layout and audiobook recording continues on pace. We're still on pace for a summer release, YAY!

Love ya lots, 

Annye / Maker Fishmeal

Hello, wonderful backers! I'm here with the March update for Finish Your Cosplay!

In very exciting news, both of my sensitivity readers returned their notes with only very minor changes suggested. Those changes have been made, which means the manuscript is DONE!

Next up: the audiobook! I'll be reading the audiobook myself (using my partner's very fancy microphone). I want to record it before laying out the print version as a kind of very last read-through of the manuscript; since I'll be reading aloud, I'll be sure to catch any errors and particularly awkward phrasing.

I've also started learning my layout software. Since Finish Your Cosplay! will have some color and illustration, it's going to take a bit more than just flowing the pages and adding headers. But I'm feeling confident with the software and am thinking layout will actually take less time than I expected. 

All in all, I'm still feeling very confident for an early- to mid-summer release! 

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Can't wait to get this baby to you!

much love,
Annye / Maker Fishmeal

Hi, supporters! Last month, I let you know that Finish Your Cosplay! was heading out of my hands for a while to spend the month of January with two sensitivity readers.

(If you don't know, sensitivity readers are an extra set of eyes to check for potentially offensive and/or harmful content. It's particularly important in a book like Finish Your Cosplay!, since ~productivity~ and all the messiness around it is so linked to both mental and physical health.)

The great news is: one of the sensitivity readers has returned their notes, and there are no big changes needed! I need to make some minor verbiage edits, and of course anything the second sensitivity reader suggests, but it looks like nothing massive will need adjusted.

So for now I'm just making baby tweaks while I wait for reader #2 to return their notes. And, of course, working on a different massive project (that I'm excited to show you in early 2026!). 

That's all for this month. See you in February!

Annye / Maker Fishmeal

Hello, wonderful backers and supporters!

I've been making great progress on Finish Your Cosplay! this month. I completed an extensive round of changes, edited all guest essays, and sent the full manuscript for its final round of copy editing.

I'm particularly excted about the guest essays; we're going to have a diverse collection of makers included in the book, and they all have such wonderful and valuable insights about making through both mental and physical troubles.

In January, FYC! will spend time with two sensitivity readers. These readers will be looking for anything the essayists or I have said that's harmful to folks with mental or physical productivity struggles. This step is very important to me; I want this book to be helpful for all kinds of folks.

So, for now, FYC! is mostly out of my hands for another month! I'll see you mid-January, hopefully with some updates on merch and the sensitivity reads.

In the meantime, if you or someone you know missed the campaign but is still interested in preordering goodies, you can check out my preorder store here. 

Keep on makin'!

Annye / Maker Fishmeal