April '25 recap, May '25 plans

It's May!

First, just want to thank folks for their patience early last month as I navigated the Patreon content filter suddenly flagging a bunch of stuff. I've still got one story that's not available (The Therapist part 5 seems stuck in content review limbo, sadly; I'll figure it out eventually or take the risk of reposting it to see if I can get it unstuck) but otherwise everything that got flagged ought to now be resolved.

With that, on to the recap and plans:

In April, I released:

• Referrals, a stand-alone story (one of the Reader poll-winners)

• A Hospital Stay, Part 6 (the other Reader poll-winner)

• Dungeon Mistress: Session 4

• The Thaumaturge, Chapter 10

35k words of releases! Not half bad. I also got a couple sponsored stories drafted that'll eventually get released, too.

For May, you can expect:

• The Thaumaturge, Chapter 11

• Dungeon Mistress: Session 5 (the finale session!)

• Speedrunner (title still tentative, but this was the reader poll winner from April)

• A Hospital Stay, Part 7 (I need to do a little plotting, but this is nearing the end of this series, I think -- whether that means 7 parts or maybe 8 or 9 is unclear)

• Another batch or two of The Masseuse [Remastered] chapters

The exact order of things may shift, obviously, and depending on how long it takes to write Dungeon Mistress: Session 5 -- which I'm expecting to be a bit of a behemoth, but we shall see -- I may bump A Hospital Stay into early next month and release a sponsored story instead.

Also, I mentioned this in a comment last month, but reiterating it here for visibility: I've got a few too many balls in the air at the moment, series-wise. My plan for the next few months is to try to make sure I'm working towards wrapping up Dungeon Mistress, A Hospital Stay, and The Therapist with any open weekly release slots -- all of them are reasonably close to conclusions and they'll help clear the decks for The Thaumaturge (which, honestly, I feel like is just now starting to hit its stride!) and Speedrunner, which is going to be far more experimental in tone. Speedrunner may be a longer series, or just be a short arc -- we'll see how the reception is and how much I feel like it 'works' as a concept overall once I'm in the thick of it.

To be clear, the pace of my writing shouldn't change, but my goal is really to try to be focusing on 1-2 open longer-term projects at any given time, as opposed to the four series that are currently active.

Also -- when I post the Dungeon Mistress finale, I'll probably also put up a Q&A/AMA post with some summary wrap-up thoughts, what I thought worked well, what didn't, etc.

Thanks for supporting me.

--JF