Things have settled down since my bit of a crisis in November. Damage was done, especially to my wallet, but things have mostly recovered.

I still cannot access my Facebook accounts, and doubt i ever will now. It's not a great loss, but it's still very annoying that the accounts and the money were stolen from me, and both Facebook/Meta and Paypal didn't do jack shit about it because they're unregulated and their customer 'service' is a bunch of self-recursive algorithms and chatbots. When I was actually able to talk to a person, like at my bank, progress was made and I got some money back, but good luck trying to do that with Meta or Paypal.

Speaking of Paypal, I can use it again. However, if you hire me for writing or art commissions, and you have an alternative means of payment like Western Union or Amazon Pay or Zelle or things like that, let me know and if I don't already have it I'll make arrangements. ANY viable alternative to Paypal, who screwed me over, is preferable. However, if Paypal (and its mobile subsidiary Venmo) is all you have, that's fine too. I'll grit my teeth and use it.

COMMISSIONS

I am raising prices a bit on my commissions. This is not me being greedy or trying to bilk anyone, its just the price of everything else keeps going up and I have to raise my own prices to keep making a living. It won't be a huge leap, but I'm not sure exactly how much yet. There are several of you who've negotiated for commissions right before New Years, so for you I'll keep the prices for those particular commission at the old levels.

BOOK WRITING

I am now openly offering my services as a professional ghost writer for full-length novels and such. I have 58 novels under my belt so far ( a quick listing: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Lucas/author/B007Q0NO7S? ) with more on the way. I have been doing writing and book commissions privately for a while. I am very confident that I know what I'm doing as far as prose, plot, character, and so on. Fees will be negotiated on a per job basis, but be aware this is not cheap--full-length novels take months to do at the very least. We're talking low four figures for even a relatively short book of about 25K words. But if you do have those kinds of resources, and you always had an idea you'd like to see fully come to life, let me know. I'll put together a professional and compelling book-length story for you. Most subject matter, including erotic and adult material, is welcome.

ADOPTABLES

I'm going to try my hand at adoptables. Not that I expect to make tons of money but I have a hankering to do creative character designs, and I figure that's a good way to indulge in it with some monetary gain to help motivate me. I used to do something similar when I did physical media erotic art for auction way back when.  I'll probably sell a few, not sell a bunch of others, and scratch that creative itch. I'll start off by selling a few on Deviant Art, a few on FurAffinity, maybe a few on toyhouse, just to see what might work best for me. If anyone had afvice for this sort of thing let me know. Thanks!