Things I made for you in 2024 and what’s coming next

It’s my favorite time of year: time to recap the old year’s doings and look forward to the new year!

My resolutions for 2023 were to publish Tyrona, final After Atlantis book, as well as Heart and Crown. Well, I did get Tyrona published! I also published my first scifi, In a Mirror, Darkly, and it did pretty well.

Heart and Crown I didn’t know what to do with, so I’m publishing it as a serial on Substack. You can read the first 11 or so chapters here, which is as far as I think it’s gone so far. Currently having to stop and write a new chapter, which I’ve been putting off for about two years.

Also on Substack is a shorter story called Fairytale Wanderer: The Golden Bird. It’s about this displaced healer character wandering the little kingdoms of the Germanic tribes round about the decline of Rome, because that seems to be about when all these fairytales happened. A fairy has cursed him to wander and help other people find their happy endings before he can find his own. I want to write five fairytales and bundle them into a book, and I’m focusing on lesser-known ones that I love dearly. Such as the Golden Bird. Not sure when these will be finished, they’re kind of a comfort project.

I also drew 55 pages of my After Atlantis: Bloodbound comic, which has me pretty excited. You can read it here as I’m posting it! It’s like a superhero universe that overlaps a fantasy universe, as a guy from our world gets enmeshed in this fantasy world and each world affects the other.

Looking ahead to 2025:

I have a baby due in April, which means my plans for any creative projects for the rest of the year are pretty much shot.

Tentatively, I’d like to finish posting Heart and Crown and get that edited for publishing.

I’d like to write a few more fairytales for Fairytale Wanderer and get that out to beta readers.

I’d like to finish the sequel to In a Mirror Darkly, which I’m tentatively calling These Earthen Vessels. I only have the last 3rd left to write, but it’s such intense action I’m going to have to really focus on it.

I’d also like to finish the Bloodbound comic, but I have no illusions about what a baby would do to my art tablet, ha ha.

Anyway, hoping to have more cool stuff for you to enjoy in the coming year, and I’ve got some projects going on that you can enjoy right now! The comic and the substack stuff are all free, because I’m developing a pathological hatred of paywalls. If you want to support me, buy the books when they come out.