Archive • Dispatches from the End of the Alphabet • Buttondown

October 6, 2025

Book’s out btw It’s been a weekend. I’ll admit, I was afraid I would release the book to a stony silence, but friends have been supportive and making me go...

Three Days to Vapormage!

September 29, 2025

I am screaming internally But yeah, the official release date for Vapormage is this Thursday, which is swiftly approaching! As best as I can tell, everything...

Vapormage store update and early access

September 19, 2025

Heck the book comes out in two weeks heck I have been flailing at getting things ready for the Vapormage release. And… for the most part, things are in...

Vapormage Preorders Rolling Out

August 20, 2025

Wheee look at ‘em roll I’ll get right to it: this link goes to a page set up for Vapormage with links to any and all places you can preorder the book. Apple...

Vapormage Drops 10/02: Cover Reveal

July 27, 2025

I had hoped to send this email months ago. Literal months. If you're on my Discord, you've seen me venting about my hunt for a cover artist. Folks have...

Vapormage Will Drop in 2025

December 23, 2024

At the start of this year, I decided that it was time to stop waffling. I had a book I believed in and had put a lot of effort into, I had a query letter, I...

Bunny Goes Back to School

October 15, 2024

First, a bit of housekeeping. For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of spam signups to this newsletter. Most of them sit ignored without verification,...

This Will All End In Tears

August 27, 2024

There won’t be a short story on this one, the whole thing is kind of a story. Basically I’m blogging, be afraid I first went to XOXO in 2015. I had heard...

Star of Stage and Screen

June 10, 2024

I’m adapting Vapormage for film. I mean I don’t expect it to ever get picked up and I might not even finish it (plenty of other things going on in my life,...

Left Turn at Albuquerque

May 6, 2024

Hello! You might be wondering why there wasn’t a newsletter last month. The answer is: I forgot Anyway! I’ve been up to things. A new episode of Demo Disk,...

Vroom vroom / Demo Disk Launch

March 10, 2024

Busy month, love a manic period First off: I bought a car. Been looking at doing so for a while; my old Mini was old enough to go to college, so I was due to...

Oh No I Have Another Project

February 11, 2024

Story time! Well, IRL story I mean Years and years ago, I used to do a regular Saturday Twitch stream that I dubbed "Demo Disk". (This was back when I was...

Oh look it's 2024

January 6, 2024

Hey hi it's a new year As promised, I kinda let myself be away from writing work for much of December. I figured... agents are generally focused on holidays,...

The Post-NaNo Report

December 9, 2023

So I said I'd do one of these a month and then didn't do one last month because I'm 🎉 reliable 🎉 Anyway hi! Last month was National Novel Writing Month, aka...

I am, indeed, still alive

October 2, 2023

When I last used this thing I mentioned that I didn't really have anything to talk about. So I didn't send any newsletters for checks 9 months? Hoo doggy....

Episode 4: Project Management

December 8, 2022

Topic du jour I kinda suspected this would happen. I know a lot of folks can just go on, talking about nothing, without feeling self-conscious or anything...

Episode 3: Character Creator

December 1, 2022

Topic du jour Is "character creator" not just another term for a fiction writer? No it's not nobody says that ANYWAY I've been thinking a bit about names...

Episode 2: Om Nom Nom

November 24, 2022

Topic du jour In the US, today is Thanksgiving. For Canada, it's a very M. Bison "but for me it was Thursday" kind of day, in my experience. I used to live...

Episode 1: Shoegaze Posting

November 17, 2022

Topic du jour I'm allowed one bit of navel-gazing, it's a new project. So yeah, this is new, I don't know what I want to do with it exactly. I even said...