Early Access Chapters of Community Witch Book 2!
Early access chapters of Community Witch Book 2 - Witch Unmasked - are live on Patreon!
Corey has always been a weirdo - queer, goth, and Big Neurodivergent. Witching seemed like the only career where his weirdness wouldn't work against him, but now he's almost finished his apprenticeship with Aspen (Parksville's current community Witch) and has to figure out what to do with himself, since the BC College of Witches won't approve a second full-time witch for their small town. Moving to a larger city is out of the question - who would ever want to be friends with a loner goth freak who sucks at people?
And then Dee (Aspen's cousin and newly graduated art student) moves into his mentor's basement while they start an art mentorship aimed at helping them become a full-time professional artist. Corey is stymied to discover that in addition to being both charming and hot, Dee also wants to be... his friend? Which he knows can only end poorly, only he can't seem to stay away, because he wants to be so much more than just friends.
And as if all of that wasn't already too much to deal with, Corey accidentally falls into a fae pact that makes him the de facto witch for Parksville's non-human population, which he hadn't previously known existed. Will he be able to unknot the mess his life has become and make something of his burgeoning feelings for Dee? Or will he fuck it all up and be left miserable and alone?
Chapters will release to paid supporters 2 months ahead of public release - meaning that the first chapters of won't be available to the public until June 10th.
But Witch Unmasked isn’t the only project I’ll be releasing through Patreon: new content will drop every week on Tuesday! (Why Tuesday? It's the April 25th of weekdays - not Monday, but still early enough in the week that I can feel good about the week not turning into a train wreck yet)
Release schedule:
First Tuesdays: Chapters of Community Witch, for those who prefer to try before they buy.
Second & Fourth Tuesdays: Chapters of Witch Unmasked - the sequel! Chapters posted will be 3.5/4th drafts - not entirely final, but the whole novel has already already been through developmental editing two extensive structural rewrites.
Third (and fifth) Tuesdays: Chapters of Enemies to Enemies - a novella that started as a fun little Odo/Quark-inspired romp about a shapeshifter being very confused by human bodies. And then because it's me it's turned into a. Uh. Why-choose enemies-to-enemies/ friends-to-friends erotic anti romance with a big side of me making everything trans?
Additional paid subscriber perk: Exclusive epilogues and side stories
Epilogues will ONLY be available to people who pay - either here, or for a copy of the book. There's also a... quasi-epilogue/short story set after Book 2 that won't be available to free subscribers.
That's... a lot of content. Is all of this actually doable?
Yes! I'm currently finishing third draft revisions of Witch Unmasked, have already finished a penultimate draft of Enemies to Enemies, and am 75% finished with the first draft of Book 3. Additionally, my plan for the remainder of 2025 (SO. MANY. SPREADSHEETS.) assumes I'll only write 75% as much as last year's 200K words, despite being on track to exceed last year's total.
And to top it all off, I am motivated by ✨THE POWER OF SPITE✨.
If the fascists are going to say I'm a pervert simply for existing as a trans person, then friends. I'M GOING TO BE A FUCKING PERVERT.
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Lastly: reviews of Community Witch still VERY much appreciated
As with any new indie author, the problem I’m currently struggling with is visibility. Reviews help IMMENSELY, so if you’re able to read and leave a review on Goodreads or StoryGraph, I’d be eternally grateful.