Hi again!
Okay, one last poll on potential audiobooks from the short story collections. I’ve asked if people are interested in an audio of Small Victories (to start), which is a mix of stories from Good Intentions, Poor Man’s Fight, and Wandering Monsters.
Here’s the question: would a single collection of all the Good Intention...
2025-08-05 16:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostAudiobook Poll #2! Again, this post is open to free members because I’d love to get all the input I can. It looks like I can only run one poll per post. Jumping off last month's poll, I wanted to check for interest & viability of going indie production with some other titles. I've seen word of Audible making some, uh, 2025-08-01 21:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! IT'S TIME!
...for me to get started on this book, anyway. We're a long way off from publishing. Right now, PMF 7 is this chapter, a few lines of the prologue, some notes in my phone, and ideas in my head. :) I kinda wish I was giving you the prologue first, but I'm fussing with that and this chapter works as a tight stand-...
2025-08-01 21:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis post is open to free members because I’d love to get all the input I can.
I’m working on possible audiobooks on some of my titles that still haven’t been produced, like the GI & PMF short story collections, the
Hi all,
I haven't quite started putting down pages for the next PMF, but I have recently gone through the series as a refresher (mainly listening to the audiobooks). With that, I tried to update my primary lore/world-building document to include the events and details of 2025-07-15 22:28:35 +0000 UTC View Post
It's new story time! Thank you all for waiting! With Good Intentions 5 out, I haven't started up on the next book yet (almost certainly the next Poor Man's Fight). That left me wondering where to go for this month's story post, so I figured maybe I'd peruse through my files of unfinished ideas... and this one stood out. It's a ...
2025-07-04 22:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello, my wonderful Patreon people! It's been a long road, but today's the day! DEVIL IN THE DETAILS is available in ebook and paperback now!
(Cover by the amazing Lee M...
2025-06-24 17:11:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
It's out! GRAND THEFT SORCERY is available in audio! TESS IRONDALE is back to narrate this Good Intentions spinoff and puts in a wonderful performance!
Hi all,
Last week, a reader asked if he could get signed copies of a couple of my books in paperback. This came up a couple times in the past, and I wasn't sure how to handle it because reasons (logistics), but this time it clicked... and it was super easy.
To cut to details: If you/the reader are good with paying the standard Amazon...
2025-06-04 23:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
This will maybe/probably be the last chapter post before Good Intentions 5 releases into the wild! The book is basically done, except for the endless "maybe give it just one more revision pass" urge I have with literally every book. (Heck, I feel that way about the first in series.) With any luck, I'll have the spoons to work up a ...
2025-06-03 22:14:48 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Okay, GI 5 will most likely come out super soon unless one of my beta readers tells me I accidentally wrote 300 pages of refrigerator repair instructions without realizing it. (Seriously, don't listen to me re: repair work. It's been decades since I was an electronics tech and I wasn't good at it.) Once again, it's gonna be ebook a...
2025-06-03 22:07:41 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
I'm nearly halfway through with my first revision pass on Good Intentions 5... and staring at timelines for publishing. My hope is to burn through this pass fast enough to get it in front of my editor before she runs into some conflicts. I can handle the line edit without her, but I value her opinions and feedback enough that it's ...
2025-05-15 18:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
Yesterday on the Patrons post, I promised an update with big news. I'm including the Supporter tier on this because I feel like the news merits it (though I'm not going "public" because I'm not ready to share with everyone...). Anyway, here it is: THE ROUGH DRAFT OF GOOD INTENTIONS 5 IS COMPLETE!
By “rough” an...
2025-05-03 20:20:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
So I have big progress updates on Good Intentions V... and I also blundered into a big version-control error today that left me stressed & wasted at least two hours of my day. All is well now, nothing but that time lost, BUT I think I'm gonna post this chapter for now and quit while I'm ahead. The update can come tomorrow. :)<...
2025-05-03 00:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Remember long, long ago when I started posting chapters of forthcoming books, and I warned that anything posted here is subject to change in the eventual final novel?
This month's chapter is, in fact, the finished chapter in its current form, edited and revised in an extra pass to give you a quality read, but there's a good ...
2025-04-01 22:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
As expected, March brought a whole bunch of interruptions to writing: a week-long family visit, Emerald City Comic Con, and several appointments (nothing serious, but they take up time). I confess—happily—that I've also lost a few work hours while listening to Tess Irondale record Grand Theft Sorcery on her Discord! It's sch...
2025-04-01 22:35:59 +0000 UTC View PostWriting continues!
Good Intentions 5 now stands at about 131k words. That's less growth than I hoped for February, but once I give myself credit for it being a short month & a couple disruptions, I'm happy with it. March has the fortunate/unfortunate confluence of starting with Emerald City Comic Con and a family friend in from out of ...
2025-03-02 23:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostHere it is, folks. The chapter you've all been waiting for. The reason you all keep coming back to Good Intentions: mushy talk about feelings and magic-fueled ultrasmut!
Oh yeah, and some significant supernatural world-building, too. Hope that part shows. :)
Believe it or not, I kinda cut this down a bit. My writing style leans towar...
2025-03-02 18:53:26 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn't sure if I should reveal this part of the story yet. It's a significant part of the story, although one I'm gonna have to develop more once I get to revisions. Certain tech news broke last week that made me think about how fast things move, and that in turn made me think: Gosh, maybe I should at least seed this with some of my readers be...
2025-02-01 22:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt's chapter time!
Something I should probably prep some readers for in advance: Good Intentions 5 will have much less of the usual crew ensemble than previous books. As much as I like a big ensemble cast, I wanted to do a book that was more focused on Alex, Rachel, and Lorelei this time around. Most of the crew will still make appearances...
2025-02-01 20:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Here we are with the continuation of the soap opera reveal & cliffhanger from last month! Sorry about the wait on that, but things really did seem to break up better into two chapters.
I'm not completely married to some of these names, so they may change between now and the final novel publication, but I think&nb...
2025-01-01 23:39:46 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year, everyone—and a special happy New Year to anyone who had to work yesterday or today, or who spent their New Years’ taking care of someone else.
So, my twelve days of Christmas this year was more like one cat manifesting diabetes, four visits to the vet, two days of travel, five days out of town for family, three days of ...
2025-01-01 19:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostYou knew it was coming! Unless you haven't been following. Or weren't paying attention. Or you've been busy. Life gets that way. But hey, here it is!
Chapter Two doesn't lay out the entire plot & premise of the book, but a lot of it is here... and some backstory, and also some smutty fun, and the previously-revealed brunch with Mom. Ap...
2024-12-03 18:03:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey again, everyone!
Good Intentions 5 continues rolling onward, though I fell short of my hopes for November. Surprisingly, I only lost a day’s work to our awful shitshow election. (I don’t want to invest much time talking about that, but if you’re here and you’re one of my readers, you can imagine I that wanted things to g...
2024-12-02 20:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostHello again!
So I realized, belatedly, that Grand Theft Sorcery released with a front-matter goof unrelated to the story. I had version control issues while building the files in Vellum, which led to me rebuilding the damn book three times before uploading it to Amazon... which is how I left out the dedication page.
This may mean not...
2024-11-15 20:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Here it is. Good Intentions 5 is underway.
This one would work fine as a standalone story, too, though I would probably cut it off sooner. As with Past Due, we start with a check-in on Alex, Rachel, and Lorelei in their ordinary life (hah). In fact, it ties rather closely with that opening chapter of Past Due.
Alex does...
2024-11-01 23:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
First off: THANK YOU so much to everyone who has picked up GRAND THEFT SORCERY! And a double thank you to everyone who wrote a review! Even one or two sentences is a huge help to the book.
This month's spoile...
2024-11-01 18:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks.
With a big project done and now I'm moving into the next, is it time for another AMA for the first of the month? Worldbuilding, projects, characters, Thanksgiving recipes, anything?
Update/Edit: Yes, I guess this means if you have AMA questions, go ahead and post them here.
2024-10-26 16:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patrons and Patreon friends,
I feel like I should open every post with a thank you for your support and for reading—which might get old, but then again, thank you. Seriously. This Patreon and your readership make a huge difference in my life and my career pretty regularly. With that in mind, though, I have to make two request...
2024-10-21 22:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt's finally here!
GRAND THEFT SORCERY is live on the Kindle store! Paperback is in the queue and should go live any time now (possibly tomorrow), but you can grab the ebook now!
GTS is the Good Intentions spinoff I've been working on for ...
2024-10-16 21:27:05 +0000 UTC View Post