How it Started-ish

One of the first set of notes I took for The King Henry Tapes, probably in 2009 if I had to guess.  On the right, you can see King Henry's name finally circled, the Institution's name and me misspelling Visalia.

Many of the Ultra titles stuck outside of "Deathlich" which I thought was a little too Metal and replaced with Bonegrinder and Faceshifter was the same as Shadeshifter and got changed to Facechanger.  Was just listing the possible powers as they came to mind, so I had to switch Aeromancy and Spectromancy on the tiers and Xylomany went bye bye as I decided wood and plants were mostly the same thing.

Also my population calculations were way too common for Intras and rare of Ultras and got changed completely. 

Updating Reading Order + Planned Novels

AUTHOR'S SUGGESTED READING ORDER

The Foul Mouth and the Fanged Lady [FM1]

Little King Henry, Short Story

The Foul Mouth and the Cat Killing Coyotes [FM2]

Conquering Hero, Short Story

Friendship is Madness, Short Story (T-Bone)

Second Take, Novelette (Welf)

The Foul Mouth and the Troubled Boomworm [FM3]

Griefing, Novella

The Foul Mouth and the Headless Hunny [FM4]

Meet the Bonnies, Novelette (T-Bone)

The Foul Mouth and the Mancy Martial Artist [FM5]

King Henry and the Three Little Trips, MancvVerse Moments Novel (T-Bone/Eva/KH)

The Foul Mouth and the Pit of No Return [FM6]

Assault on Dread Fortress Paine, MancyVerse Moments Novel (T-Bone/Eva)

The Glassbreaker Goes Home, MancyVerse Moments Novel (KH)

The Everchanging Dilemma, MancyVerse Moment Novel (Evelyn Strange)

The Foul Mouth and the War to End All Wars, A Final School Story (Forthcoming)

Vicky von Welf and the Mancy Masquerade, MancyVerse Moments Novel (Vicky) (Forthcoming)

The Foul Mouth and the Most Obvious Trap [FM7] (Forthcoming)

The Foul Mouth and the Runaway Rumble [FM8] (Forthcoming)

The Foul Mouth and the Black Bird Bash [FM9] (Forthcoming)

The Foul Mouth and the Six Realm Drop [FM10] (Forthcoming)

The Foul Mouth and the Queen's Revenge [FM11] (Forthcoming)<---this title is probably changing

The Foul Mouth and the Asylum Ascendant [FM12] (Forthcoming)

*author reserves the right to randomly write MancyVerse Moments novels as he feels like it, but has no current plans for more.

More Beta Reactions

"I'm so confused, but in a good way."

"This book FUCKING ROCKS!!"

"Don't you dare cut the final part! It was fabulous!"

"The pay-off! Oh my!"

"Slow start, into dread, into semi truck."

Spine/Back Update + Beta Started

So...physio twice a week for at least the next five weeks going forward.  If how I feel at the moment continues that means I'll need 4 days total a week devoted to that with each session and then a recovery day in bed.  I'm barely managing to sit up right now typing this after a super long nap...and we haven't even gotten into stretches and exercising portion of the torture routine... 

He indicated that in his mind he was trying to prepare me for spinal surgery, so the aftermath would be shorter and easier on me, so...not looking too good on this being a solution.

Writing wise, beta copies are out, some have finished and no one hates it so far...yay?

"One of your best."

"Still a fan, buddy."

"Far more intense than most of the earlier books."

They could just be suck ups...but... 👍👍👍

OMG I have emotes... 💩

I have FM4-FM6 to still reformat and plug in a few typos that people have mailed me over the last 3 years (in addition to what the beta readers have found for DILEMMA) since I last did the whole series bells and whistles update, so...that's what I'll be up to when I can manage to sit up straight!

Man, I suck at lying in bed just watching tv now.  Like...can't do it.  Just want to write 12 hours a day and pissed I can't.  Weird how I snapped back so hard from all those grief/sick years where everything seemed...miserable and pointless, I guess.

Made me a better person and a more aware and empathic writer, I think, but wasn't so fun...

Feb 15th!!!  Piss on your Bengals in the Super Bowl!  Piss on your Post Valentine's Day What Am I Covered In Please Tell Me That's Chocolate Shower!!!  But the book!

Everchanging Dilemma Release Date: February 15th!!!

 Coverage!!!

Blurbage!!!

Captured at Dread Fortress Paine, Isabel Soto lies helpless and comatose, but the sedative controlling her quickly grows ineffective and its limited supply shrinks by the hour.

She has already escaped the Cleansing Sphere of Reform, the only prison with a chance at holding her.  Pregnant with the Curator's child, killing her is an option only the heartless can stomach.  Most troubling, inside her broken mind are precious secrets about Obadiah Paine's clandestine network, information that might save hundreds of Mancer lives, bring the fugitive Three Queens to justice, and destroy their Wilder Army.

Yet Isabel remains one of the deadliest beings on the planet: the Maximus of the Body, the Queen of Temptation, the Everchanging.

How do you hold her, how to you convince her, and . . . can you save her?

This is THE EVERCHANGING DILEMMA.

Follow Evelyn Strange, Eva Reti, Ceinwyn Dale, and others in this new KING HENRY TAPES side novel as Richard Raley marks his return from illness and grief, let's get the MancyVerse back on track!

One Catch:  Beta read is running February 2nd to 11th, if my back goes out or if I get COVID like we all have to deal with lately, Feb 18th will be the push date if I need more time getting the edits into the file.

But for now...if all goes well, Feb 15th!!!  Finally, again!

Until then I'm working on reformatting and updating the older books in the series in preparation for the new release (and hopefully some new fans), after that I'll be going hard on WAR TO END ALL WARS writing with the bed-desk-thingy.  I'm like 6.5 out of 13 chapters into it.  It's a big one.  Let's put it this way:  it's already longer than the book you're about to read.  Chonky chonky boi.  100% King Henry crazy high school antics.