Oct 19, 2024
Behold, The Hope Pope
technically he's never, ever called that in the games, but the game's too funny.
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Behold, The Hope Pope
technically he's never, ever called that in the games, but the game's too funny.
Water caste Ledaal-Catala Gabriel. Dragonblooded investigator extraordinaire
The Devil’s Luck - News!
Yesterday’s announcement might have come as a surprise, but it’s been the result of some long consideration. The biggest, most obvious consideration? My unemployment benefits run out in November. [insert sweatdrop emoji here]
But it’s not just money, for once! The next Songbirds book needs more work, and Devil’s Luck has been complete and trunked since I tried to sell it to traditional agents in 2010. It was written in 2008 for NaNoWriMo, and when I wanted to redo my work on the book that would become Evensong’s Heir, I polished DL up and shopped it to various agents as something a little more mainstream than magical castrati. (It’s fair to say that that experience, rather than trying to publish Evensong's Heir, is what really soured me on traditional publishing as a whole.)
The Devil’s Luck is actually an older story than Songbirds, it first began as a loose idea sometime in 2001. But its roots go back much farther, all the way to a childhood wasted reading ghost stories--ones about card games with the devil and wastrels getting their comeuppance through supernatural means. It also, I feel free to warn you, owes a debt to a certain Coyote’s futile attempts to murder a roadrunner.
The Devil’s Luck has a few edits in the works, mostly some expanded scenes and tweaks, and I hope to have it available digitally by Halloween for All Hallows Read. A print version will follow in a couple months!
To be honest, current events have kicked off this release as much as anything. A year like 2020 feels cursed and apocalyptic, and so a book about the worst possible kind of good luck seems a good fit. I hope, if nothing else, it provides a good read in dark times.
commission for @binaryhavok of Stan and Cruxia duking it out! 🤘
Stan delivers a pun-nishing blow @binaryhavok
Got my One Piece D&D cards in today!