Update... and new story - "The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Drake from Flight 363"

First the update.

This week was mostly mopping up the last bits for the new collection. It was a lot of mopping up, so there wasn't any time left over to get back onto HoHH.

All the writing and typing up is now done. I wanted to get the endings right for "Outcall with a Succubus" and the main story "A Succubus for Social Justice". If you're interested in the wider lore there are some big wham moments in the ending section of the latter. ;)

I also wrote an Afterword detailing the inspiration behind the stories. Then wrote it again because the first one was rambly and shit.

Everything other than the Afterword has had the first editing pass and all the various character names filled in.

After that it's just the assembling everying together and formating the manuscript. Next week will be on the fiddly stuff such as making it into an ebook and maybe a print book manuscript as well. I'm still waiting on the cover art, but we're getting very close to hitting submit to Amazon.

And now for the story.

This is the "extra" story I needed to write. I needed a Koontz story, and so wrote a very standard Koontz story. This one was trying to channel some of the campness of old spy movies and I think Kiki Sumoppai fits rather nicely as a femme fatale with a very bizarre assassination technique.

It's only had one editing pass, so there might be a few things I've missed.

Anyway. While the writing of the collection has taken a little longer than originally intended, it has given me a nice "extra" story to preview to patrons/subscribers.

As Kiki Sumoppai is also one of the harlots from HoHH, I also have some nice art of her to accompany it. I might give more of them their own stories.

I hope you like both. Let me know what you think below.