I know it looks like nothing's been happening, but we're getting caught up behind the scenes. I got next chapter of A Pack Of His Own off to its commissioner last night (which ended up changing my expectation of this arc being three chapters into... maybe a bit more...) although that took some serious work hammering at it. A new...
2025-08-06 22:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Four
August 27th, 2021
“You know, when people talk about ‘catching strays,’ this isn’t what they mean, babe,” Piper told Andy with a tender gr...
2025-08-02 05:51:40 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I survived Colorado and Red Rocks, although good fucking God, somebody could've warned me that it was like 25+ flights of stairs straight up to get to seats. I was there to see Andrew McMahon set a new record at Red Rocks - he was opener, headliner and closing act. He played in all the various incarnations of his bands - Something Corporat...
2025-07-31 00:15:36 +0000 UTC View PostI should've had a news update up yesterday, but I was off seeing my very first concert at Red Rocks (which is impressive, considering I've seen over 300 concerts in my lifetime). If you aren't familiar with Andrew McMahon in any of his various incarnations (Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin, Andrew McMahon and/or Andrew McMahon In The Wilder...
2025-07-25 05:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25
November 19th, 2020 (morning)
Phil valued his sleep more than just about anything, but when the phone rings and the caller ID on the face of the cell phone reads ...
2025-07-24 07:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty
The next few weeks of Will’s life were surprisingly quiet and easy-going. It was nice, and let all his partners spend some serious time getting to know one another, which was something they had all desperately needed. No outside in...
2025-07-21 04:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostGood lord, I did not realize how much of a mental toll this year had taken on me until I was sitting in a cafe on the Rhine River with some friends, and just let the weight of the world slip off my shoulders. It isn't even me personally - it's the whole damn country going to shit. But hey, I've had a chance to spend some time with friends, heard...
2025-07-16 22:16:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Three
August 26th, 2021
Andy always took a little bit of extra time adjusting to international travel and beating jet lag, so they had arrived yesterday and tried to keep him awake as long as possible before finally letting him ...
2025-07-16 18:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostWhat a wild and weird trip it's already been. I'm in a hotel lobby in Coln, where I've got a handful of hours to kill waiting for my friend to come by and pick me up, but it's a good point for me to get out an update and let people know where I am, what's been going on and how the trip's been so far, because some of it has been strange and wild....
2025-07-10 09:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighteen
“I found all sorts of things we can use in the salvage yard, boss,” Loz said as he poked his head out of the back of the shuttle. “And I got most of it at a steal of a deal. Like this!” He pulled out a large piece of machinery that was burnt at one end, although the mechanic brushed his hand off an...
2025-07-09 23:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostI hate being cryptic, but it's been a rough couple of weeks for reasons I can't really get into. That said, on Monday, I leave for my week's vacation out with friends in Germany, and maybe the mental gymnastics of getting ready for that has contributed to the general malaise that's permeated things for the last few weeks, on top of the other cra...
2025-07-03 01:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nineteen
They barely made it through the motel room door.
The walk had been one brutal push to keep from mauling each other in some random alleyway, and Will had count...
2025-06-30 20:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post(Author's Note: The numbering for the Merlin's Gift series, like Morgana's Gift, will be a little strange. Part 1 was the Prologue, Part 2 was Chapter 1 and Part 3 is Intermission One, with Part 4 to eventually be Chapter 2. We apologize, but the numbering system is a legacy artifact of the original, and Merlin wouldn't let ...
2025-06-27 03:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe're starting to get there! I got QT2:42 out a couple of days ago, and I'll post Merlin's Gift 3 in the wee hours of the morning after I get back from poker night and finish it. (It's about 2/3rds of the way there right now.) Then I'm going to launch straight into getting caught back up on commissions for the n...
2025-06-26 01:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Two
August 2nd, 2021
“C’mon, Andy, put yer fuckin’ back into it,” Lauren said to him as he pulled Taylor’s hips back towards him, the two blondes putti...
2025-06-24 00:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, it's just not happening. I try, I sit at the keyboard and sometimes I just even type garbage to try and get something onto paper. There are days where it feels like I'm one step away from "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." (If you don't get that reference, don't feel bad - I didn't see that movie until far later in life tha...
2025-06-20 06:55:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two – “Assuming it is a head”
Little Larry isn’t a bad guy, but he’s just never been quite up to snuff for the front lines Druid life. Oh, don’t get me wrong, LL’s a hell of a magical mind, but what he’s never been great at is being under pressure. In terms of researchers, LL might...
2025-06-19 01:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostNo lies - the last few days have been particularly rough. Those of you who don't like it when I talk politics, tap out here and just come back for the next story post, which will probably be tomorrow or Friday, depending on what level you are. (I'm still working on Ch. 2 of HTWT for Alphas.) The rest of you, this will be a bit o...
2025-06-12 00:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostSo, we're a few subscriptions away from hitting the tier, but I realize that I've been a little light on delivering content for the last couple of weeks, so we'll call it even.
Attached to this post is what I'm currently called the 'dream casting' or visual guide for Quaranteam Books 1 & 2. You should be VERY 2025-06-10 06:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post
HAVE TOTEM, WILL TRAVEL
Book Two of The Druid Gunslinger Legends
A Blake Conrad tale
Chapter One – “Whole Room Marked ‘T’”
“Do I look like FedEx?” I asked my sister as she a...
2025-06-06 22:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-One
August 1st, 2021
Andy was stirred to consciousness by a hand smoothing along his chest. His eyelids felt heavy, and he didn’t want to open them, but it was...
2025-06-05 01:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostQT2:41 will be dropping any minute now. I'm waiting for a regional dialogue edit pass (yep, more Jordan in this one) but it's basically done otherwise. Once you read it, if you want to talk about it on the Discord, that's great, but PLEASE use spoiler tags, especially for the rest of Book Two, because each chapter is going to ke...
2025-06-04 23:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, we're getting there. I'm about halfway through the next QTSS chapter that'll go to its commission probably tomorrow, and then I'm going to bang through QT2:41 for Friday/Saturday. I have some of the outline of that sketched out, and as we get towards the end of Book 2, some of the chapters may take a littl...
2025-05-29 01:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostPart Three - “Weirder By The Day”
January 3rd, 2021
Fiona had woken up early in the morning and yet again, for the third day in a row, Andy wasn’t asleep in bed beside them. She was starting to get a little annoyed and wondered...
2025-05-27 23:21:11 +0000 UTC View PostPart Two - “Our World Now”
January 2nd, 2021
Uncharacteristically, and for the second day in a row, Andy Rook had gotten up early, but this time, he hadn’t gotten up alone. He’d gotten up early yesterday as perhaps the only person who hadn’t been completely shitfaced the night before, on N...
2025-05-27 23:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhat a strange ass week this one's been. I like to think of myself as mostly doing this full-time now, but every so often, the Old Folks call with a short deadline, a big problem and a sack full of cash, so I tend to take those gigs (especially if they're from folks I enjoyed working with the first time around) just because they keep the coffers...
2025-05-24 02:59:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventeen
“How the hell did that happen?” Sketch asked the tall blonde standing next to him. “The Weaponeer is typically one of the oldest members of the order.”
“That was the problem the order was having,” Charlotte said. “They knew they needed to not have any one singular person handl...
2025-05-23 05:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostPart Forty-two
Mrs. Churchill – 3/13/2017 – Tuesday – 4:28 pm
The day had gone surprisingly well, and Max had been graciously compliant, leaving semen in no less than three different women over the last few hours, but now they were on a breather, and Mrs. Churchill was delighted to see an almost stu...
2025-05-19 01:24:29 +0000 UTC View PostNot been my finest week, not going to lie. Part of it's been that getting QT2:i8 right, and there were a lot of important spinning plates and I kept being unhappy with one or more of them and kept throwing parts of it away. The riot is obviously going to be a big deal in the political backdrop of the rest of Book 2 and even muc...
2025-05-16 02:49:54 +0000 UTC View Post(Author's note: Apologies for the lateness on this one. I had to get it right, and it took a lot more attempts than I would like to admit.)
Intermission Eight - Allegra
July 31st, 2021 – Washing...
2025-05-14 08:41:43 +0000 UTC View Post