Dearest Plague Rats,
So much to tell...bras thrown onstage (for Veronica), the police being called on me onstage (for supposedly starting a "riot"), Basil & Sir Edward joining me onstage (best night of my life, courtesy of Young Master Timothy who retrieved them for me from my cell -- who says good help is hard to find??), and endless, endless more, but, at this precise moment, I must away to packing for Germany (you are all coming to see me there this Saturday for the book reading, right?), then washing corsets in preparation for the 2nd leg of the N. American tour ('cause dirty crumpets smell bad and we sure as fuck don't get to wash this shyte on the road). I promise to use my plane flight of eternal length to document these shocking experiences for you so that I may post again once I reach my far-off destination.
I DO however have one bit of heart-bursting happiness to announce, and that is the following: I have only just received the very first hard-bound, complete, finished Asylum book! Your copies are being printed at this very moment over in China, but allow me to assure you that it is beyond anything you could possibly imagine, and I know this because it is beyond what I myself imagined. It is huge, it is heavy, it is epic. It is Everything. You think you know. But you have no idea...
Because I will now be able to read the story to you from this bound, final edition, I will no longer have to read from the lovely yet unbound test-print copy I've been mixing up the pages from as I attempted to read you bits during the VIP book readings on this tour. Thus! I have given the test-print copy I've been using to the Asylum, which has divided up the pages and is offering them, signed and personally notated, to you. Here is the first set:
Boohaaaah!! First Asylum book prints ever!!

This auction is only up for
ONE DAY as I want to get items shipped off to you before I leave on the 2nd leg of the tour, so be fast or miss it. This highly educational "Leech" page is one of my favorites, and the other side of the page features the leech painting that is now printed on those lovely pink tees being sold at our tour merch stand (come on babies, you know I'm doing my god-damndest to get you out of black, why must you fight me so?).
Now, before I scurry off, let me say a quick quick quick thank you to my N. American Muffins, BECAUSE!!! You. YOU! You told us you were waiting for us in N. America, but the European Muffins took such good care of us that it took a long time to convince anyone on the biz end that we could come home and have an audience here as well. Honestly, nobody had very high expectations, except, of course, for me. I was betting on you, and you showed up in droves. You sang bloody loud. You got fucking crazy. You packed theaters in the middle of places we'd never been anywhere near before. You didn't give up on us coming back to you, and so we have given you the very best we have, our hearts, our souls, our "tea," Veronica's boobs, everything. You proved me
right, and everybody else
wrong, and
that makes a suicidal girl very, very,
very happy.
You are the reason why a
second leg needed to be added to the tour -- because everybody believes in you now. We did good, PRs. The hard part is over, and nobody will ever divide us again, not ever. You are soldiers now, and I'm marching beside you because you have earned the right to fight for the Asylum and all its inhabitants. Let's train, Muffins, because there is still much work to be done if we plan to spread the Plague to the rest of the known world and beyond. There is no rest for the wicked;)...
With Love & Bloody Crumpets from the Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, Block B, Cell W14, Inmate A,
EA
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