Good morning all!

This will be the last of the Monday Roundups in this format for the foreseeable future. We need to talk about the challenges and changes that Cthulhuville is working out.

Since I (McKenzie) am writing this one, I’ll start with my own challenges. In August ’25 my partner and I bought and moved into our first house. I also started a PhD program the same month, and our son started preschool. It would have made sense that I didn’t post for the first couple of months while we were settling in. Why didn’t I jump back in? Well, literally a couple of days after we finished unpacking the basement, there was a sewage backup in the finished basement and we then spent four months dealing with insurance company ridiculousness, working with contractors, and taking showers/baths at hotels (that was only three weeks or so, actually–the insurance company didn’t love paying for that and got our water line repairs figured out real quick). We’re finally almost done with all of that; the carpet guys come tomorrow! I’m also pretty much settled in with the new school stuff. Taken together, that means I’m back in action here! It may take a second to ease back in, though, especially while we’re re-unpacking the basement.

Ian and JimmyZ have also had a lot going on with convention appearances for their comic The Wanderers (reach out to us on social media or by email if you’d like to purchase a copy!). The Wanderers also marks a critical change to Cthulhuville: the opening of Cthulhuville Publications.

We have big plans coming far far down the pipeline with that. Discussions have included publishing prose novels and short fiction, board games, and (of course) more comics. There have also been discussions of posting to SubStack and/or Patreon in order to expand our audience and possibly incorporating short and/or long form video content via YouTube. This is similarly in early stages. We will announce things as they happen, but for now we’re still in the earliest of early stages with all of this.

For this week, as our last roundup, you can look forward to a review of the 1791 Ann Radcliffe novel The Romance of the Forest from me and a review of a Big Finish audio production from JimmyZ (probably–pending any new personal things not spiraling out of control for either of us). There may be more this week. There may be less. Please bear with us as we get things back on the rails.