One of my best friends, who has been laying low for the past several years due to family health issues, has recently gotten back in touch with me. He is a bit of a computer repair geek, and has built several computers.
When I described my black screen hard drive failure, he seemed pretty certain that he would be able to recover all of the data.
This is outstanding news (potentially, of course)! He will accept no payment, though I will take him and his wife out for a nice meal. We’ll be getting together tomorrow on my day off to catch up and evaluate the hard drive. I am so excited for multiple reasons!
Turns out I did have a few issues of the earliest Greywater Chronicles on a thumb drive, so the last week I have gone back and edited those issues. Not changing anything substantial, just correcting some spelling and grammar, and rearranging a few pictures and speech balloons to make the story flow clearer. Also added a cover to issue 1, and adding the “sunsunderdistantsuns comics group” branding to the covers.
With any luck, by tomorrow night I will have all of my back issues of Greywater, as well as the almost complete #27 back in my possession. Then I’ll look at creating some PDFs, maybe for sale on Amazon for a few bucks, or maybe try putting them on some writing platforms and gain a few patrons. I hate to be crass and monetize things, but if someone wants to pay me the .25 cover price of a Greywater issue, that would certainly help out, and enable me to pursue things further! And finally start my empire of words! Or something.
Nice! I hope it works.