Chapters for this week are all ready!
It’s been more hectic than planned. Instead of having all chapter edited and ready to go for a second review round, I only managed to get the first 7 or so set. Which is pretty good, I’ve got another entire week to finalize everything. I anticipate things going well. The last few chapters I might take a few extra days on, but right now the ...
2025-06-29 13:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello one, hello all!
After 5 months of hard work, the BTDEM kickstarter is now live! The only time you'll be able to get a hardback omnibus edition of the complete series!
I tried to go all out on it. Sprayed edges, slipcases, interior artwork, colored ribbons - this is as pretty as I could make it. It's an 8 book omnibus instead of 16 books because it was much, MUCH cheaper that w...
2025-06-24 10:13:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Since there was no posts this week I figure I’d give you all a status update on how it’s all going.
The first draft is done! All the words are written, all the chapters are done. I’ve written the fateful words.
Next week is pure editing. I’ll be trying to elevate the final from its fairly rough draft that it is now, to the shining polish....
2025-06-21 16:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostI bow to the will of the people!
I'll be taking the next two weeks off posting wise as I finish and polish the end of BTDEM, then post 5x a week until we hit the end.
The only awkward part is the kickstarter is going to launch in the middle of the break...
I might also post earlier if everything gets in a happy state before then.
There WILL be epilogue/postscript ch...
I’m reaching the end of btdem. I’m writing the last chapters now in my backlog.
Ideally, I’d then sit down and edit the finale quite a bit to make sure it lands. I’ve been working on btdem for half a decade, and I don’t want to punt the final.
Here’s what I’m thinking: take 1-2 weeks off, finish btdem, edit like hell, then post at 3/4/5 posts a week to fi...
2025-06-14 16:23:50 +0000 UTC View Post2916 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
There was one area we’d avoided in our long lives. One place we’d waited on, delayed on. One last grand source of entertainment that would only be fresh once, that promised levels no matter how strong we were. Auri had visited a few times herself, but we wanted one big fresh trip.
The kin...
2025-06-13 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe years drifted by, and we tried every profession.
Amber laughed at my attempts at opening a general store, and we got a thorough education in the intricacies of holding inventory. Why did it have to be so complicated?
Being a [Courier] was as fun as I imagined, but impossibly lonely. Iona hadn’t wanted to spend the entire time in [Manor] ...
2025-06-09 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post1234 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
I wondered how Iona talked me into this as another group of [Adventurers] came in through the door. I didn’t recognize them, not that it said much. Lots were transient, lots of shiny new [Adventurers] came in… and few returned.
I’d been around lo...
2025-06-06 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
I don't think I've shared book 15's final epub/pdf with you all. Feel free to point and laugh if I have! I'd rather you get it twice then not get it at all.
Cheers!
Selkie
The Small Announcement!
Beneath the Dragoneye Moons is on final approach to finishing.
I've been working over the past year to get a kickstarter going, and we've hit the prelaunch phase!
Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: The Complete Collector's Edition!
An 8 book hardback omnibus for the entire series. Ribbons, sprayed edges, the mural slipcase and best of all? PLU...
2025-06-04 06:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry about that! I've been sick. I knew the chapter looked a little too edited to be real, and my backlog was getting really big... should've known I was screwing it up haha.
Speaking of backlog, I'm in the final stretch of BTDEM right now! Don't renew an annual subscription... unless you're an Elaine-tier who wants to be around for Song of the Gift-Giver!
Probably less than 25 ch...
2025-06-02 14:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post585 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
Sara’s notes on how to identify when people were combatants versus civilians using models was brilliant, and the inspiration for the next set of Heal rune headaches. Namely, how much bacteria was too much? I didn’t want to purge everything, that was stupid. There was a good amo...
2025-05-30 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post425 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
Thinking, thinking, always thinking. The blasted Heal rune was hard, no wonder one didn’t exist yet. Two steps forward, one step back, and when a single underpinning was improperly done, it meant everything that built on top of it also had to be redone. I had added tens, possibly...
2025-05-26 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post361 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
Running a large organization was more involved than we’d initially expected, and we spent far longer at the Myriad Flame Phoenix Sect than we had initially planned. We couldn’t just up and leave when we were done and let the administration figure things out, no. We were the administrati...
2025-05-23 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs the years rolled by, as [Manor] expanded and improved, we were able to have more and more specialized rooms and amenities.
One portion in particular continued to expand, to our great dismay. An entire wing of the [Manor], occasionally open to guests and the only place Iona had convinced me to allow an expert to set up lethal wards to protect.
For...
2025-05-19 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post233 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
Mao Mao looked up and up and up at the great mountain, the peaks shrouded in thick, eternal mists. Mists that glowed in every color of the rainbow, the undying flames of the sect coloring the grand skies above. This was her chance, her one opportunity to change her destiny and defy t...
2025-05-16 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post169 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
I’d been salty for almost a year when the ‘make a treasure hunt’ project hadn’t worked out. If the materials weren’t strong enough, they’d rapidly weather and decay, obliterating the puzzle. If they were strong enough - like, adamantium - then they were too valuable, and ...
2025-05-12 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis one requires significantly more discretion than usual, and is more explicit than usual.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PYJPPuaKaFREiYxntlAQc5m_TOubyMQ1&usp=drive_fs
4-7 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
I could tell from halfway across town that something was wrong with Sara. She was sniffing, head down and shoulders hunched over as she dragged her feet along the cobblestone streets, heading back towards home. If she looked any worse I would’ve rushed right over and demanded to know what was wrong....
2025-05-09 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post102 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
I slowly walked down the road with Custodus, greeting everyone on our usual patrol route.
“Morning Agrippina! How’re the kids?” I waved to the first lady I saw.
“Dawn!” She chuckled. “They grew up and moved out years ago.”
I cheekily smiled.
“Yeah, but they’ll...
2025-05-05 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe legal part of my mind was screaming at me after we dropped off Lord Sylas.
I’d committed all the crimes.
Smuggling. Trafficking weapons. Sleeping in a public area. Indecorous skulking. Bribery. Theft. Breaking and entering. Kidnapping. Arson. Impersonation. Resisting arrest. Espionage. Obstruction of Justice. Petty Treason. Because he was a [Lord], not a [King].
Argument...
2025-05-02 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a dark and stormy night.
Detective Fenrir, Private Weyevern, looked morosely out at the storm. It was a good storm, raging against mankind, raging against the arrogance of civilization, a thousand million raindrops pattering against the window like his emotions raged against his beating heart.
Ahh, his life was a lonely one. His great flame flitted in and out of his life, a f...
2025-04-28 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post72 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
The wagon’s axle was slightly warped. I wasn’t terribly surprised, given how it had broken and we’d needed to replace it, but it made the wagon shift just a tiny bit along the forest ‘road’. Road was an extremely generous term for the root-riddled dirt path through the forest, but that’s ...
2025-04-25 14:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: First chapter of book 16! THE FINAL BOOK BEGINS!
69 Years after Elaine became a professor at the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft
I lay on Iona’s bare chest, idly tracing a finger down her belly. I could grate cheese on her abs. I had, just to prove it could be done. My mind wandered all over the place, before settling in on the words, the dissatisfaction that had bee...
2025-04-21 14:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Last chapter of 15! ONE BOOK LEFT!
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Thanwa Temirak had fucked up.
He had fucked up badly.
Thanwa’s jaw worked endlessly, not a sound coming out.
As he spun through the vast emptiness of space, he occasionally contemplated if there had ever been an elvenoid who’d fucked up as badly as he had. He didn’t really have anything el...
2025-04-18 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSmugElaine!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_2idRveN3V9vA13Ei4lkILTFGkQBHxkr&usp=drive_fs
Patreon is bad at showing off art in polls. Version 2!
2025-04-14 20:32:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon is bad at showing off art in polls. Version 1!
2025-04-14 20:31:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
We're here at the finish line, and I've got two potential covers for you all to help me decide on!
Take a look, let me know! Both are amazing pieces, and I'd be happy either way.
AN: Ugh, just realized both of the interludes are a little short... but with the next chapter, we are DONE with book 15, and onto the finale!
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Iona and Nina were sitting on the thickest branch of a tall tree, gazing out onto the bandit hill. The bright summer sun beat down on them as they studied the ratty fortress. It was new, built with minimal...
2025-04-14 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post