The Best Laid Plans: Updates, Progress, and Something Special

So today marks the first month of my new job working in a state prison and, needless to say, it's been quite the transition. My entire writing schedule has been thrown for a loop as I have less time to work on my stories and spend more time in the company of wards of the state. My recent output, 'PTHBTT' and 'Kiss Me,' were both written long hand in the midst of down time during my shift.

Side note, but I've found it quite therapeutic to write the titular letters that comprise 'Letters from War' while in the midst of a hectic day in the joint. There's several beside me just waiting to be typed up and posted. Stay tuned.

As I said before, 'Changelings' has two chapters left. The original plan was to have it finished on September 18th, the two year anniversary, but that obviously didn't happen. They are nearly finished, but I need them to be perfect before I let you all see them. 'On Swift Wings' will launch not long after, and I will do my very best to not take two years to finish that one. It's a shorter story, one I considered cancelling and folding into 'All the Pretty Little Horses.' But the villain is something I am simply over the moon about and I would be doing her a disservice not giving her the chance to headline her own story. I think you're all very much going to enjoy meeting Queen-General Valeria.

I plan to tell the entirety of 'the Wicker Mare' across the 31 Days of October. The final treatment is complete and ready to roll. Swirling's cover art looks fantastic so far, as it always does, and I'm very excited to tell a different sort of horror story across my favorite month of the year.

'Grogar 2' will launch Krampusnacht, December 5th, and be complete on or around Christmas Day. Tighter schedule, but I think I can handle it.

I may also try something new and write a couple of one-shots that have been bouncing around in my noggin here and there. I might also bang out the first couple chapters of 'Nopony Does It Better' and see if folks like it enough for me to continue.

So, to wrap this up in a cool little bow, a little something special. The Pony Print Project has released their first collection; 'Nightmare Nights,' a hardcover collection of some of the best horror the fanfic community has to offer. Included are a few personal favorites, like 'Leviathan' and 'Holder's Boulder.' Also included are two of my stories; 'a Girl Walks Home Alone at Midnight' and 'the Thirteenth Hour.' If you've always wanted quality horse words on your book-shelf, not to mention the works of yours truly, then order your copy right here. I'll be ordering my own copy as soon as I'm able.

(If you buy a copy and send it to me, I'll sign it and send it back... with a little something special.)

Well, it's back to the big house for now. Drop a line below to tell me how you're all doing.