Happy Easter, y’all! Joe Hills here, writing as I always do in Nashville, Tennessee, with a few quick updates now that I’ve returned from the Pacific Northwest.
Resurrection?!
Since today is Easter, I’m going to start off by thanking folks for joining me last night to kick off the next novel I’ll be reading weekly, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Here’s the VOD of that:
You can find the playlist for my Frankenstein readings at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7On8E0_x1tqXTMocvxGuv2kqu3XThT_t
If you’d like to read along at home, or read ahead, you can find the text I’m reading from via Project Gutenburg at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm
I’ll usually be reading Frankenstein each Saturday night from 8:30–10:30pm US Central Time, though next week’s Saturday reading will be much earlier in the day than usual to accommodate family plans. You can find my latest streaming schedule at https://joehills.net/soon
Gamers For Giving 2025
Y’all really showed up for this year’s charity stream event and helped HermitCraft raise over $800,000 for Gamers Outreach for the second year in a row! Thank you for helping us build and deliver hundreds of gaming karts to children’s hospitals!
There are so many generous and talented folks who worked to make this event successful that you may have caught on camera throughout the weekend, like Anthony from Mojang, the production crew from Liquid Dogs, and the Gamers Outreach staff. I’m grateful to all of them for making the weekend spectacular!
I wanted to take a second here to shoutout two folks I worked with off-camera who particularly helped us have an amazing event: Travis Ericksen and Nate Jones.
Special thanks to Travis Eriksen from Childs’ Play Charity for loaning Gamers Outreach and HermitCraft the telepresence robot that ZombieCleo, Oli, and Joel piloted around the studio, and for taking time out of his weekend to help us troubleshoot it with his tech expert Garrett!
Travis previously visited my studio with his kids, and we had a great time together, so if you’d like to learn more about Child’s Play, consider checking out the VOD of his visit!
Special thanks as well go to Nate Jones of Northstar guitars! Nate is the amazing luthier who built the custom HermitCraft guitar for the auction. The guitar sold for over $5000 and brought delight to every Hermit who held and signed it. If you’d like to see Nate’s build video for that, you can find it here:
The weekend was packed with fun moments, so I’m in the process of editing a recap video about the weekend now. I hope to have that video out by the end of the week, so I’d best get back to editing!
Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, Tennessee. Keep adventuring!