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I feel like telegraphs should have had autocorrect.

Starting a new Victorian-set book is kind of like petting a puppy, popping bubble wrap, or sitting in a giant vat of ice cream.

It just feels nice.

(What's that look for? You don't think petting puppies feels nice?)

Hamilton would dominate Twitter. Except he'd get into 8 million flame wars because his skin is thinner than OJ's alibis.

Hey-oh!

FOHAGs! Circumstances continue to conspire to deny you more adventures with Heloise & Grimple (and Kevil), but I say to these circumstances NAY! FOHAGs must have more! And so I am closing in on the completion of part 8. Stay strong!

In the meantime, catch up from the start if you haven't already: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Gromph Baenre--Archmage, Inadvertent Releaser of Demon Lords, Nefarious Evildoer, and, now, Psionic Rapist. This just keeps getting darker and darker...

Let's hope that "revelation" is just Demogorgon's relative proximity mucking with your noodle, Drizzt...otherwise, things just got really unsettling.

Still on the fence with respect to how I feel about Drizzt and Entreri being allies. On the one hand, they are fantastically entertaining fighting on the same side, and I love a good redemption narrative. On the other, Entreri did some bad, bad stuff to Drizzt and his friends...how do you just let that go? Maybe I need to find an arch nemesis of my own so I can figure this out.

I need an org chart for the ruling houses in Menzoberranzan. Byzantine doesn't even begin to describe it.

Things aren't looking too good for you here, Sherlock...where's that cocaine when you need it, eh?

Digging the art in this...it's a highly idealized Victorian London, but it's beautiful. Atmospheric.

Not even a quarter of the way through and we've already set an R.A. Salvatore record for the number of lady drow-on-lady drow encounters.

I never get tired of hanging out with old friends...

Will it be years before I have the opportunity to play D&D? Yes. Am I still diligently reviewing this? Yes. Am I contemplating whether it's age-appropriate to get Player's Handbooks for my son and and daughter for their upcoming birthdays in June (when they will be 3 and 1, respectively)? Yes.

Will my children be embarrassed to introduce their friends to their dad?

Well, duh.

Aflred's daughter is either a technological savant, or Batman's Batcave features Fisher Price-level machines.

This Thomas Jefferson character is coming off like a real asshole. Maybe he'll get eaten by a zombie or something.

Stay strong, FOHAGs! Circumstances have conspired to delay the astonishing debut of Part 8 of The Chronicle of Heloise and Grimple, but rest assured that it is in process!

In the meantime, catch up through part 7 if you haven't already: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Kell v. Bard for all the marbles...

Marbles are kind of crappy stakes, though. I mean, really...marbles? Why not all the pizza? Or the cookies? Or the books? Sometimes idiomatic expressions are dumb.

Let's just get this Triwizard Tournament started already, shall we?

FOHAGs unite! Part 7 of The Chronicle of Heloise and Grimple is up: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Let's see how our heroes plan to go about recovering Grimple's club...

I like this Ned guy.

Trying a little hard with the jokes, Venkman.

Kell...getting raw on some people! Easy there, guy.

We meet again, Delilah Bard.

Well, that's pretty f$&@in' creepy. Hello, forthcoming nightmares.

Chernow! Throwing haymakers and uppercuts at Thomas Jefferson with reckless abandon.

It's okay, though--apparently, Jefferson was a firm believer in the better-part-of-valor form of strategic egress, so I suspect fisticuffs would be avoided.

Murder most foul!

As promised, FOHAGs: Part 6 of The Chronicle of Heloise & Grimple is up! https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

For those who have been wondering when those red boots would make an appearance...

Wonder no more.

Attention all FOHAGs*! The next installment of The Chronicle of Heloise & Grimple will be posted today...will our intrepid heroes seek out the dwarven cleric Rappahammer Hammerknocker or pursue Grimple's beloved Banger? Stay tuned...

(That, my friends, is what we call priming the pump.)

*Friends of Heloise and Grimple