Reading bunches of Golden Age mysteries means occasionally encountering words and phrases which have mutated or fallen out of fashion. One of these is "dope fiend", which is a vastly more interesting term than "drug addict", conjuring all manner of pharmacological daemons - hallucinatory mists, possession in a pill, creatures with syringes for teeth.
Chalk up another idea for an urban fantasy I will never write.
Four Kings Release!
Here at last! Sorry for a slow writing year. In a huge contrast to Firsts , Kings has only a single (somewhat involved) sex scene. It has...
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Cute Demon Crashers is unique in my experience. Admittedly, I'm not an expert in the otome gaming area, but most (non-puzzle/time mana... -
Over at The Book Smugglers they're well into their yearly Smugglivus celebrations, and I have a post about the games I've been playi...
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Checking in to say still here, still working on Four Kings ! After coming across a few videos of people using AI art generators, I couldn...
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