January 2025 Dispatch
MFF was a ton of fun! I enjoyed all my panels and enjoyed meeting everyone at the table, as per usual. I got to hang out with the usual folks and do business meetings and personal meetings and stare out at the chilly Christmas lights (no snow this year) from a 90-degree skyway. Thanks everyone who came and bought Dead Right, or anything else! Hope everyone who went also had a good time!
After that it was the holidays, and they snuck up on us but we got our tree up and got to see friends around Christmas and New Year’s, so we did the holidays well enough.
Work-wise, I spent the first two-thirds of December getting Weasel Under the Sun ready to send out to some folks for beta reading. You’ll notice it has moved up to “upcoming releases” in the list below. The first draft is done, and I’m more confident that it will come out nextthis year. We’re aiming for TFF because the theme is Murr-der on the Furr-ient Express or possibly some less punny variant of that, but anyway it’s Agatha Christie themed so it seemed like the best place to release an Agatha Christie-style mystery.
Since getting that out, I’ve mostly been fiddling on ongoing projects like Fast Break and the craft book while gearing up to get back to revising Azure City, and then the third Wolftown book. The first thing I hope to draft after that will be the fourth Wolftown book, while I have momentum on this series. I have outlines for the fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and while that concludes the arc I have in my head, that doesn’t mean another story won’t insert itself in between now and the end of the series (this has happened before).
Tomorrow I head out for a writing retreat, then we’ll be at FC where I hope to see many of you! As we go into a new year, my resolution is to keep putting out fun stories for y’all. I hope we can all make 2025 as good for each other as we can!
Books:
Dead Right: The sequel to Unfinished Business! Jae gets tangled in the life of a ghost activist who endangers his relationships and his future. Out now in print and e-book form at Argyll Productions! Coming soon to other platforms.
Squeak Thief: A rich mouse hires a fox thief to steal from his own family, but the job quickly spirals out of control. You can get it as a print book on FurPlanet or Amazon, or as an e-book on BadDogBooks or any other major retailer.
The Price of Thorns: buy at Argyll and review at Amazon or GoodReads. In a fantasy world where stories are woven into the fabric of magic and life, Nivvy the thief is hired by a mysterious woman, and this job will change his life in ways he could never have anticipated.
Audiobooks: Titles is out! Find it on Audible or iTunes.
We are working on getting Love Match 2 out the door—should be available this month! Work on the Price of Thorns audiobook continues; we hope to have this out next year. The Dude, Where’s My Pack? audiobook is also in process.
Other upcoming releases:
Weasel Under The Sun: 2025 (Hopefully TFF). Ellie works for a month in another family’s kitchen while hers is on vacation, but murder will follow her anywhere…
Azure City: 2025. A book full of blank pages might be the key to another world, but the more Athos reads, the more he disappears from this one.
In progress:
Robin Hood fan fic (two books) — draft complete, awaiting revision
Third Wolftown book — draft complete, awaiting revision
Ty the Knot — draft complete, awaiting revision
Fast Break (a gay basketball player story on Patreon) — first draft ongoing
craft book — first draft ongoing
untitled fantasy world project — outlining
Streaming:
We went to theaters to see Wicked, and it was so great! I loved the musical on stage, and the movie delivers everything I could’ve wanted from the musical—including cameos by the original Galinda and Elphaba. Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are the featured singers in the new song that was added and have a fun little bit of interplay with each other as well as with their heirs in the signature lead roles. But Cynthia Erizo and Ariana Grande more than hold their own throughout this gorgeous, energetic, heartfelt production. Act I is the most exciting part of the musical, so I’ll be interested to see what they do with Act II when the sequel comes out. My expectations are high.
Harley Quin (MAX) - Look, it feels impossible that you’d be someone who might be interested in the brilliant Harley Quin animated show from DC and yet wouldn’t know about it yet. Its fourth season came out last year (I think—we’re behind on watching it) and continues the madcap, violent, and yet somehow meaningful journey of Harley and Ivy as Ivy takes over the Legion of Doom and Harley tries out the hero path with the Bat-family. Every season it feels like they reset the world and come up with new and interesting scenarios to put these fantastic characters in, and so far they’ve yet to miss.
What We Do In The Shadows (Hulu) - I admit I wasn’t as huge a fan of the movie as some people; it felt to me like a bit too long an exploration of a single gag. But the series uses that gag as the entry to a funny, weird family drama that’s as compelling as anything since Bojack Horseman (and you know how much I love that show). The final season wraps up in satisfactory fashion, with some fun cameos and a final episode perfectly fitting to the characters and the show.