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Weekly Update - 5/7/25
I'm hipdeep in working on a few things right now, but the next thing to drop will be QT2:i8 and will definitely get people talking (as if the end of 2:40 wasn't already doing that). It's going to do a bunch of fun things, but I don't think I'll be able to get it done today, since...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 19 (alphas)
Chapter Nineteen They barely made it through the motel room door. The walk had been one brutal push to keep from mauling each other in some random alleyway, and Will had counted himself lucky that the motel she’d picked was only a few blocks away, and that they’d made every light and crosswalk a...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 18 (all readers)
Chapter Eighteen “Thanks for coming out here, Tommy,” Will said to the man as the two sat down inside of a booth in a Chili’s just outside of Boulder. “I realize Colorado’s not exactly your beat, but you said if I needed magic help, you were always happy to make new friends and do them fav...
Quaranteam - Book Two, Chapter 40
(Author's note: The attached PDF for this chapter also includes an updated Cast of Characters. This is not the upcoming updated visual guide.)Chapter Forty July 30th, 2021 Ophelia’s reassignment to Andy went off without a hitch, and this time everyone in the room knew to keep their mouths shut...
Weekly Update - 4/30/25
QT2:40 will be dropping tomorrow. It's mostly done, and it's bigger than normal, but it's also got a lot going on in terms of continuity and world building, so I'm having the writer's group take a look at it overnight, do an edit pass and then when I get up tomorrow, I'll mak...
Weekly Update - 4/23/25
I hate when this happens. I know it's my own brain playing tricks and self-doubt on me, but I'm just like every other creative and I'm not immune to it - that sense of Imposter Syndrome, that you're actually bad at your craft, and you've somehow just been fooling everyone the who...
Have Totem, Will Travel - Ch. 1 (alpha)
HAVE TOTEM, WILL TRAVELBook Two of The Druid Gunslinger LegendsA Blake Conrad taleChapter One – “Whole Room Marked ‘T’” “Do I look like FedEx?” I asked my sister as she and her friend sat in my office in downtown San Francisco. My sister, Charlotte, the Huntsmistress, wasn’t one you ...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 14 (final)
Chapter Fourteen – “Is it all over?” At that point, I didn’t have much left but the cleanup. Still, more often than not, that work’s even harder than the actual sleuthing, because you’re trying to make people whole again who you know are never going to be fully right. You know that far b...
Quaranteam: Book 2 - Ch. 39
Chapter Thirty-Nine July 30th, 2021It had taken a couple of weeks to get the paperwork taken care of, and to ensure all the proper requests had been filed before Andy got word that Ophelia Jackson and Belladona (or BD as Andy was already starting to think of her as) DuBois would be awaiting his arri...
Weekly Update - 4/16
I already hear you asking - what the fuck happened, and are you okay, Dev?The second answer first - I'm fine. Saturday morning, I had to drop off my flatmate at the airport as he was heading out on vacation with his family. At 6 a.m. Now, maybe nobody knows this about me (although I'm sure m...
The Threadbinders - Ch. 10
Chapter Ten When the exterior walls of Gom Weydan started to glow, the mages suspected it meant they should be leaving soon. Arkady had expected it would be something blatant and too prominent to miss, but the amount of illumination the walls were emitting was beyond even his wildest expectations. I...
Ante's End - Ch. 1
Ante’s EndA Modern Mythos tale (in slight retrograde)By Devin McTaggartChapter One Nobody expects to have their life changed within fifteen minutes of hearing Oasis’ “Wonderwall,” but it happened to me anyway. I didn’t know it at the time, naturally. Hell, I’m still not entirely sure wha...
Weekly Update - 4/9/25
Strange week. The weekend definitely got away from me at the Magic: The Gathering event I ran, because the person who's usually my helper for that event was out sick, and I was left running the whole thing on my own, which complicated stuff and left me a bit more exhausted than I normally am. I ...
Quaranteam: Phil's Tale - Ch. 24
Chapter 24November 18th, 2020 (evening)When Phil got back to the house for the night, he saw Linda standing outside the house, pacing impatiently. She didn’t look upset or angry, merely anxious, and that was enough for Phil to be a little bit concerned, especially where she’d spent most of her d...
Weekly Update - 4/2/25
Well, we're getting there. I'm doing what I can to bring things back up to being in line again, and step by step, we're making progress. Just a little shy of a full month's worth of deliveries, and we'll see if I can keep pushing more towards getting things in line. One thing I ...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Ch. 38
Chapter Thirty-EightJuly 19th, 2021The last few days, the family had been busy, trying to figure out what the summons was all about and how they were going to respond in kind. Andy had been surprised that Jade had taken her father’s death in stride so far, but he reminded himself that she’d basi...
Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 8 (alpha)
Chapter EightJuly 19th, 2020After a long night’s sleep, Tom’s Team (both those who were imprinted and those who weren’t) had gotten up, done their exercises and hopped through some showers, they’d done the one thing that Meg and Mel both wished they’d done before they’dgotten imprinted ...
Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 7 (all)
Chapter SevenJuly 18th, 2020Joe had wanted to complain when the text message had sprung to his phone saying that their usual 9 AM morning meeting had been postponed to 3 PM instead, but his frustration quickly dissipated once he realized that meant he could sleep in instead, and so he, Liv, Tori and...
Weekly Update - 3/26/25
I'm behind and yet, I'm so far ahead, it's crazy. I still have to get next month's chapter of Packto its commissioner (it's, like, most of the way there, so relax) and then I have to get through the next QT2chapter, but, see, here's the thing...This morning when I woke up, fo...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 18 (alphas)
Chapter Eighteen“Thanks for coming out here, Tommy,” Will said to the man as the two sat down inside of a booth in a Chili’s just outside of Boulder. “I realize Colorado’s not exactly your beat, but you said if I needed magic help, you were always happy to make new friends and do them favo...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 17 (all)
Chapter SeventeenLess than two days later, Will was at the Crossroads Diner, the cold winter weather keeping all but the most determined of students out and away for the night, but it was good, because it had let Will spend the time healing up from his duel at the gathering. He hadn’t had any dama...
Merlin's Gift - Pt. 2
Chapter One – Suicide BlondeMarch 24th - 26th, 2021I’d never been one to cross off days on a calendar before, but when the groceries started arriving, that had been my cue to take whatever Merlin was doing seriously. But I’d learned a lot over the intervening weeks.One of the weirdest things w...
Weekly Update - 3/20/25
Yes yes, weekly update should've been yesterday, but I got hipdeep in writing the next drop, and while it's mostly finished, I'm having a few people look at in the writer's room for dialect coaching. That said, expect a drop tomorrow, pretty much guaranteed, and a little bit longer t...
Before The Storm - Ch. 16
Chapter Sixteen“I thought you said were capable of just about anything,” Sketch said with a smirk, leaning back in his captain’s chair. “I figured you’d appreciate the complexity of the challenge.”“Challenge is one thing, Walker,” the mechanical voice on the other end of the line sai...
Weekly Update - 3/12/25
Did you know the NFL already has a Flag Football program in play already? I didn't make that up. I had to do actual homeworkfor QT2:37, and I was surprised of just how much. Flag football, process serving, protected rights vs. rights that can be suspended in national crises... lots of little spi...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 37
Chapter Thirty-SevenJuly 17th, 2021“It’s so fire to think we’re both gonna be here in just a couple of months,” Hannah said to him. The busty Asian woman was wearing one of his Ned’s Atomic Dustbin t-shirts that she’d basically commandeered, even though it hung down nearly to her knees, ...
Brewster's Brood - Pt. 41
Part Forty-oneGemma Ashton-Scythe – 3/13/2017 – Tuesday –1:12 pmGemma looked at the other two girls with her, shaking her head a little bit. She’d wanted to take her first swing at Max without anyone else around, but they were behind. Behind, behind, behind. She could understand why and what...
Weekly Update - 3/5/25
Next thing to drop will be the next Brewster's Broodchapter, hopefully today, worst case scenario tomorrow. I'm midway through it now, and it's humming along at a decent clip. I'm going to keep the news update relatively short, so I can get back to writing. My parents were in town th...
Merlin's Gift - Pt. 1
Merlin’s GiftA 15-part Modern Mythos storyBy Devin McTaggartPrologue – HeroesFebruary 14th, 2021“That doesn’t make any sense, Gill,” I said into the Zoom call, frustration plain in my voice, even though I knew it wasn’t going to do any good. I’d known that it was odd when Gill told me ...
Weekly Update - 2/26/25
Man, it can be tough, trying not to spend too much time looking at the news as the country attempts to win at speedrunning the fall of an empire. At this rate, if I fly back to the Midwest for Christmas, I may need to use my passport, because I might be changing countries, for all I know. California...
