Dear friends, I'd like to ask for your help.

As you may know, when Chris's illness hit us in March this year, it smashed our world to pieces. Not only have we both been unable to work, a problem with our national insurance payments in France has also meant that Chris hasn't been eligible for income support. For the past 5 months, we haven't been paid.

Our finances are a disaster. My focus has been on getting Chris through this ordeal; stage IV cancer was enough for him to deal with. At the same time, I have left Mindjammer Press untouched, reasoning that at some point life would begin again, and MJP funds were earmarked for producing committed Kickstarter pledges for Mindjammer, Capharnaum, and The Chronicles of Future Earth. I'll be picking up those pieces and getting back to work on the 1st October.

Yesterday I found that Chris's funeral expenses will come to just shy of 3800 euros. I don't have that money, so am preparing to take a bank loan, in addition to whatever bank loans will be needed to get me through to the end of this year before Mindjammer Press can start paying me again. Somehow I'll get back on my feet from losing the love of my life in this disaster, even if at this moment I don't feel I can face that mountain; it does feel like the odds have been stacked terribly high, and I'm emotionally wrecked.

Several friends have suggested I reach out to all of you on social media for help. This doesn't come easy to me; I've always been someone to beaver away and sort things out myself. But even I'm realizing I can't get through this alone. Since Chris has gone, it is the love and support of friends that's keeping me going. They tell me the sun will shine again, though I suspect its light will never seem quite as bright

If you'd like to help out and contribute to Chris's funeral expenses, you can do so via the attached JustGiving link. Please don't feel obliged, but know that you'll be helping me shed tears of great gratitude as well as sorrow.

Thank you for reading.