Last Month
Let’s see. February was cold, wet, and making me homesick for the mountains. Amsterdam tends to be relatively wet most of the year apparently. A bit grey, but I live heck and gone into the suburbs where they keep the greenhouses and fields of corn and sheep. So, it doesn’t feel too dissimilar from Oklahoma where I spent my teen and most of my adult years. I grew up in Colorado and New Mexico though and they are what I’m most comfortable calling home. I miss the High Road to Taos most in these days. The smell of dry pine and desert sage in July. There’s something to that scent that brings me home.
I spent a good portion of February trying to refill my blog. I had destroyed it back in July and August when I was preparing to get us moved from the US to Europe. The dictitorial regime was making me nervous. I’m not completely out as a transman, but my writing is. And I didn’t want to have my flights canceled or end up disappearing into one of those ‘detention centers’. I’m still nervous about getting my passport renewed. I don’t know if walking into an American Embassy is going to be dangerous going forward. We will have to see. There’s a reason to be located in a country that has easy to navigate asylum visas. We’re working on a different visa at the moment, which gives us a certain type of freedoms that the asylum one won’t. Hopefully we can just skate by.
So, I got a giant chunk of Firefly Fish put up. I’m working on another new story: Pinyon Smoke, as a way to cope with my homesickness. Then there’s the repost of The Fire in My Blood. I’m reworking The Feather on My Scale. I didn’t like how it opened, so I’m taking the opportunity to reset it.
Life of a Librarian is trying my patience. I’m stuck at chapter 15 and haven’t quite taken the time to just stare off into middle space and figure out what exactly I’m trying to do with my characters in Rosewell. I know I want a battle scene, and it looks like I had some kind of route to zombies? Zombie revival tent preachers? I don’t know what my past self was doing with this story two years ago.
I have another story working in the background that I don’t even have the first chapter written for. I wanted to play again in historical fiction. That type of storytelling gives me a sense of satisfaction that I can’t quite quantify. So, it’s vampires in 1400s France. And I honestly don’t know a lot about either that century or France, so I have a bunch of research work to do for building that world.
To Be Guilded, Warden’s Cabin, and Glamour Heart are supposed to be just useless erotica/smut without a lot of dense character building, but…it’s turning into that, so I’ve backburnered them to instead focus on my bigger stories that I already have ‘planned’ out. I say that in the loosest terms.
Book Reviews Coming This Month
A Suitable Bodyguard by R. Cooper
Breezespells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
The Knight and the Necromancer by A.H. Lee
Salt Magic Skin Magic by Lee Welch
Manga Reviews Coming This Month
Apothecary Diaries
Solo Leveling
The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter
Webnovel Chapters Coming This Month
The Fire in My Blood Chapters 6-10
Life of a Librarian Chapters 9-12
Firefly Fish Chapters 12-15
Skull Dansuer Chapter 4-6
Gallery Posts Coming This Month
Random Netherlands Summer 2025
Nikko Japan 2019
New Mexico 2022
Chapel Orahamm 
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