Update 12th Oct '25

The major writing (and typing) for the collection is pretty much done. I have a couple of pages to type up for the Koontz story and other assorted odds and ends of various epilogue type pieces.

"Outcall with a Succubus" is just over 8K words typed up. It's done aside from a short epilogue and editing.

The Kiki Sumoppai/Koontz story is going to be titled "The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Drake from Flight AA363". (The flight number might change. I haven't decided whether to use the actual flight number for that flight or invent a completely new flight number not used by anything.) Currently it's at 5K words typed up with a few pages still to go which I'll finish after putting this post out.

Most of the "A Succubus for Social Justice" multi-part story is edited. I'm in the process of writing the epilogue part.

The last bit of writing is a small afterword where I detail the inspiration behind the stories and where they first appeared. I'll get that done next week.

I'm pretty much down to the editing and then assembling everything into a single manuscript. I'd like to put this out as a physical book as well, so I need to do some research on the formatting for that as it can be a little trickier getting the margins right compared to the digital versions.

Once done I'll stick it on my kindle and give it a full read-through to make sure I haven't missed any glaring typos.

The other thing I'm waiting on is the cover art. Ideally I'd like a two-week period between submitting the manuscript to Amazon (and other retailers) and it actually coming out, so I can get a little bit of hype going. So we might be looking at an early or second-week November release rather than right on Halloween (which will probably help dodge the deluge of new horror books coming out that time).

I'm planning to post the Kiki Sumoppai story for Patrons/Subscribers as an early-look perk. Look out for that in the next week or so.

The other thing I did this week was get distracted by the new grok/imagine tool. That seems very very good at generating 6-second animations from static art pieces. I've been experimenting with various pieces of harlot art and getting some interesting results (which I've been posting on Discord and X).

I still don't know if this will be useful. If HoHH was a card game, this would add nice animations to the card art. As HoHH currently is, maybe they might only work as promo pieces rather than in-game animations. I'll keep experimenting.

In the meantime Noeru has set up a special #slop-room on the discord. I'll be putting art in there for people to try their own experiments with. I'll maybe post more in detail on that tomorrow.

Anyway, the tl;dr version - the book is nearly done and I should be back to harlot scenario writing (hopefully!) next week.

Thank you for your continued support and interest!
- manyeyedhydra