Update 28th Sep '25

Work on the short story collection is progressing quite nicely.

I have a rough running order sorted out. It will be around 80K words and about half of that will be brand new material. I'll only be taking six stories out of the existing stockpile, which means I still have quite a few left for future collections.

As for the new material.

I've arranged the various segments of the main [succubus tablet] story into some semblence of order. Overall it will be 20-25K words. Rather than intersperse it through the collection like I did with "Locked in with a Succubus", I'm going to break it into four chunks. This also gives me a chance to introduce relevant characters in separate short stories before they show up in the main one.

This one is fairly complex and the main reason it's been so long since I last put a collection out. Thankfully, it's pretty much done. All the pieces are written and typed up. I just have the final (short) segment to write and then edit everything.

"Mage vs Succubus Slime" is now fully typed up. That's 5K words and features a succubus slime getting to sexily level drain a mage in a fantasy setting. (Although there's a lot more going on than first appears).

"Outcall with a Succubus" is the third. I was hoping I'd have that written and typed up by now, but it's been one of those stories that has fought me all the way. On the plus side, at one point I was worried it would come across as a quick throwaway just to have Nicole in the collection, but now it is shaping up to have a hot and interesting sex scene. Nicole is showing a more feral side in this one, so I think it's going to go longer than the originally planned 5K words. Most of it is written now and I've started typing it up.

What will take me beyond this week and the end of September is the need for an additional story. There are a lot of connections between stories in this one as my various characters interact with each other. It would arguably be a very loose novel apart from a couple of stories in the middle that don't really have any connection with the others. While a lot of the characters will be familiar to long-time readers, I also wanted the collection to make sense to anyone picking that up as a first book. Fortunately, I do have existing stories that perform that role quite nicely. Aside from one character - Koontz. So, I need to write a new stort where one of his succubi gets to do her thing. I have a pretty good idea of what this story should be and it should be fairly straightforward to write. It will also feature a guest appearance from one of the HoHH harlots, whose art I've posted a little teaser of above.

My original plan was to have everything written and typed up by the end of September. Aside from the need for an additional story popping up, I'm still fairly close to that. I think one more week should hopefully be enough to get everything written, typed up, and edited.

I will have something to post for patrons at the end of the month. I'll let you have an early look at one of the [succubus tablet] story segments. So look out for that next week.

As for returning to art previews and the harlot spotlights, I'll see how the week goes. If I've got the writing and typing up done and I'm just on the editing, I'll post on Thursday/Friday as normal. If not, I'll put it back a week to make sure I have no distractions.

Thanks for the support!
- manyeyedhydra