What's In The Pipeline: Special Stories For The Holidays, A Service Announcement, And More

My dear patrons, 

With such an astonishing number of new faces around here, it's a good time to inform you about my plans for what is coming next! I usually post the schedule for the coming month closer to the end of the current month, but I'm doing so ahead of time now, for reasons that will soon become apparent.

First things first: as long-time patrons know, I want this creator account to provide an exceptional service. I don't just want to be one among many, I want to give you all the very best. Needless to say, that applies to the holiday season as well! Here are the details.

First of all, in December, I will be posting a Fall Of Women Christmas special! I've always envisioned TFOW as an anthological setting, and it's time to start expanding the collection. What does the very first post-Payload holiday season look like? How does life at the office change with the dawn of a new order? And how far could you possibly twist the concept of "Christmas gift" in this world? Time to find out!

Additionally, for the F/f crowd, I will be re-releasing an expanded and improved version of the Christmas special I posted twelve months ago - think of it as a remastered edition! I'm avoiding typing out the title in full, to avoid the wrath of the Patreon gods. 

Both stories will be made available to all patrons, regardless of their tier, in early December. The TFOW Christmas special will take the place of a bonus chapter, but no worries, patrons BRAT and above: you'll be getting an extra bonus chapter in the new year to compensate for this! And of course your end-of-November bonus chapter will release as per normal, and is scheduled for the 30th.

Of course, December will also see publication of chapter four of A Leashed Tiger, as well as the epilogue to Illuminata's Garden, and the community story Mandate Of Heaven. That means you're getting a whopping five story releases for Christmas! 

I already have two very exciting F/f commissions in line immediately after Illuminata's Garden - currently titled A Different Footing and Apex Predator - so you have quite a lot to look forward to! As for A Leashed Tiger, that will be carrying on for quite a while longer, so hold on to your butts: the ride is just beginning...

Now, the reason I'm sharing all of this early on is that I'll be spending the next week away from home, with my girlfriend. I will still be totally reachable on the Discord server, but if I'm a bit less responsive than usual, you know why! I'll be back in full by Dec 1st, after some well-deserved rest. Here is the link to the Discord server: https://discord.gg/B5B8E9bJq7

Speaking of rest, there is another reason why I wanted to get the schedule done and communicated well in advance. December is going to be very front-loaded in terms of releases, because I intend to take a real break during the holidays. I have now been writing stories non-stop for fourteen months. In that time span, I have written roughly 250,000 words, distributed in 56 individual chapters, belonging to 19 individual stories. It's time I came up for air!

To reiterate, this doesn't mean a schedule disruption: the amount of chapters I publish remains unchanged. It just means I'll have a gap in between December's five releases, and January's four releases, broadly overlapping with the Christmas holidays! 

This is the schedule in full: 

NOVEMBER:

Community Story: The Modern Office (published)

Illuminata's Garden, Chapter 3 (published)

A Leashed Tiger, Chapter 3 (published)

Bonus Chapter: Don't Be Good To Me (30th November)

DECEMBER:

F/f Christmas Story, Remastered (4th December)

Community Story: Mandate Of Heaven (5th December)

The Fall Of Women: A Christmas Special (11th December)

Illuminata's Garden, Epilogue (18th December)

A Leashed Tiger, Chapter 4 (21st December)

Holiday Period: 22nd December - 8th January 

Then on 9th January, we begin again, with the first story release of the new year! I'll have a more detailed schedule of January's four upcoming story updates later down the line.

And with that, I'm off! See you on Discord!