Elliott Kay

One More Poll: Single-Series Audiobook?

Hi again!

Okay, one last poll on potential audiobooks from the short story collections. I’ve asked if people are interested in an audio of Small Victories (to start), which is a mix of stories from Good Intentions, Poor Man’s Fight, and Wandering Monsters.

Here’s the question: would a single collection of all the Good Intentions stories from my three story collections (Small Victories, Habitual Heroes, and Low-Key Calamities) be more attractive? We’d eventually get to the ...

Audiobook Poll #2: Great Power and No Responsibilities?

Audiobook Poll #2! Again, this post is open to free members because I’d love to get all the input I can. It looks like I can only run one poll per post. Jumping off last month's poll, I wanted to check for interest & viability of going indie production with some other titles. I've seen word of Audible making some, uh, questionable changes for how royalties will get divided for lots of authors in the near...

Story Post: Poor Man's Fight 7, Chapter 1!

Hi all! IT'S TIME!

...for me to get started on this book, anyway. We're a long way off from publishing. Right now, PMF 7 is this chapter, a few lines of the prologue, some notes in my phone, and ideas in my head. :) I kinda wish I was giving you the prologue first, but I'm fussing with that and this chapter works as a tight stand-alone story with the Dorm Goblins.

All that said: over the last month, for a bunch of reasons, I've also given serious thought to changing plans...

Polling for Interest: Indie Audiobooks

This post is open to free members because I’d love to get all the input I can.

I’m working on possible audiobooks on some of my titles that still haven’t been produced, like the GI & PMF short story collections, the Wandering Monsters books, and also 2025-07-16 16:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Poor Man's Fight: Lore-Dump/Update (possible spoilers!)

Hi all,

I haven't quite started putting down pages for the next PMF, but I have recently gone through the series as a refresher (mainly listening to the audiobooks). With that, I tried to update my primary lore/world-building document to include the events and details of No Man's Land (book 6). And since it's time for the mid-month post, I figured, why not share?

I'm pretty...

Story Post: Vocational Shift

It's new story time! Thank you all for waiting! With Good Intentions 5 out, I haven't started up on the next book yet (almost certainly the next Poor Man's Fight). That left me wondering where to go for this month's story post, so I figured maybe I'd peruse through my files of unfinished ideas... and this one stood out. It's a light smutty fun adventure story, clearly the first chapter in something longer I'd like to write when I have the space for it. It feels more like a s...

It's Here! GOOD INTENTIONS 5 is out now!

Hello, my wonderful Patreon people! It's been a long road, but today's the day! DEVIL IN THE DETAILS is available in ebook and paperback now!

(Cover by the amazing Lee Moyer!)

Once the shadows of magic enter a mortal’s life, they never really leave. Alex learned that from the moment he met Rachel and Lorelei, ...

GRAND THEFT SORCERY available in AUDIO (and other updates)!

Hi all!

It's out! GRAND THEFT SORCERY is available in audio! TESS IRONDALE is back to narrate this Good Intentions spinoff and puts in a wonderful performance!

Amazon link

Audible link

2025-06-17 17:52:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Checking for Interest: Signed Paperbacks?

Hi all,

Last week, a reader asked if he could get signed copies of a couple of my books in paperback. This came up a couple times in the past, and I wasn't sure how to handle it because reasons (logistics), but this time it clicked... and it was super easy.

To cut to details: If you/the reader are good with paying the standard Amazon-site price plus shipping via Ko-Fi, I can order the books, sign them, and mail them out myself. The US Postal Service "book rate" is pretty low for d...

Story Post: Good Intentions 5, Chapter 8!

Hi all!

This will maybe/probably be the last chapter post before Good Intentions 5 releases into the wild! The book is basically done, except for the endless "maybe give it just one more revision pass" urge I have with literally every book. (Heck, I feel that way about the first in series.) With any luck, I'll have the spoons to work up a short story for next month. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this!

A chunk of this scene (possibly two chunks if I remember correctly) has alr...

Spoiler Post: Early Warning for GI 5!

Hi all!

Okay, GI 5 will most likely come out super soon unless one of my beta readers tells me I accidentally wrote 300 pages of refrigerator repair instructions without realizing it. (Seriously, don't listen to me re: repair work. It's been decades since I was an electronics tech and I wasn't good at it.) Once again, it's gonna be ebook and paperback first, with audio to follow depending on the whims of Audible. On that note, here's your reminder to 2025-06-03 22:07:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Spoilerific: Alternate scenes and updates!

Hi all,

I'm nearly halfway through with my first revision pass on Good Intentions 5... and staring at timelines for publishing. My hope is to burn through this pass fast enough to get it in front of my editor before she runs into some conflicts. I can handle the line edit without her, but I value her opinions and feedback enough that it's a real priority. The other trick in publishing this is that it may be good to go sometime in June.

2025-05-15 18:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Good Intentions 5: News and COVER ART!

Hello all!

Yesterday on the Patrons post, I promised an update with big news. I'm including the Supporter tier on this because I feel like the news merits it (though I'm not going "public" because I'm not ready to share with everyone...). Anyway, here it is: THE ROUGH DRAFT OF GOOD INTENTIONS 5 IS COMPLETE!

By “rough” and “complete” I mean the first draft reached “the end” as of April 30. I’ve got a few short scenes/bits to insert, so it’s obviously not fi...

Story Post: GI V, Chapter Seven!

Hi all!

So I have big progress updates on Good Intentions V... and I also blundered into a big version-control error today that left me stressed & wasted at least two hours of my day. All is well now, nothing but that time lost, BUT I think I'm gonna post this chapter for now and quit while I'm ahead. The update can come tomorrow. :)

FOR NOW: We pick up with Alex, Lorelei, and Rachel meeting more of Alex's new sudden-surprise family and the mysterious disappearance of their f...

Story Post: GI V, Chapter Six!

Hey all,

Remember long, long ago when I started posting chapters of forthcoming books, and I warned that anything posted here is subject to change in the eventual final novel?

This month's chapter is, in fact, the finished chapter in its current form, edited and revised in an extra pass to give you a quality read, but there's a good chance the opening scene may get a full rewrite when I get into book revisions. To be blunt, I can't decide if I want to have a whole fight scene or n...

Updates and Sneaky Bits!

Hello all!

As expected, March brought a whole bunch of interruptions to writing: a week-long family visit, Emerald City Comic Con, and several appointments (nothing serious, but they take up time). I confess—happily—that I've also lost a few work hours while listening to Tess Irondale record Grand Theft Sorcery on her Discord! It's scheduled to release in June, and the preorder is...

Spoilerific: Good Intentions 5

Writing continues!

Good Intentions 5 now stands at about 131k words. That's less growth than I hoped for February, but once I give myself credit for it being a short month & a couple disruptions, I'm happy with it. March has the fortunate/unfortunate confluence of starting with Emerald City Comic Con and a family friend in from out of town for a few days , so I probably won't get much writing done for this first week. After that, hopefully I'm on my way to the end. The climax is in ...

Story Post: Good Intentions 5, Chapter 5!

Here it is, folks. The chapter you've all been waiting for. The reason you all keep coming back to Good Intentions: mushy talk about feelings and magic-fueled ultrasmut!

Oh yeah, and some significant supernatural world-building, too. Hope that part shows. :)

Believe it or not, I kinda cut this down a bit. My writing style leans toward "write too much in the first draft and then chop it down later." I think—kinda hope—that the action scene here will shrink again in the final dr...

Spoilerific: Good Intentions 5!

I wasn't sure if I should reveal this part of the story yet. It's a significant part of the story, although one I'm gonna have to develop more once I get to revisions. Certain tech news broke last week that made me think about how fast things move, and that in turn made me think: Gosh, maybe I should at least seed this with some of my readers before this actually becomes a thing in real life and I'm the one who's behind on everything.

At least, I hope this sort of thing isn't already a ...

Story Post: Good Intentions 5, Chapter 4!

It's chapter time!

Something I should probably prep some readers for in advance: Good Intentions 5 will have much less of the usual crew ensemble than previous books. As much as I like a big ensemble cast, I wanted to do a book that was more focused on Alex, Rachel, and Lorelei this time around. Most of the crew will still make appearances in some capacity, but things are narrower this time around. Hope that's not too big of a disappointment. The crew will still be around for future sto...

Story Post: GI 5, Chapter 3

Hi all!

Here we are with the continuation of the soap opera reveal & cliffhanger from last month! Sorry about the wait on that, but things really did seem to break up better into two chapters.

I'm not completely married to some of these names, so they may change between now and the final novel publication, but I think they're pretty solid?

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

GI 5 Spoilerific New Year's Sneak-Peek!

Happy New Year, everyone—and a special happy New Year to anyone who had to work yesterday or today, or who spent their New Years’ taking care of someone else.

So, my twelve days of Christmas this year was more like one cat manifesting diabetes, four visits to the vet, two days of travel, five days out of town for family, three days of other social obligations, two days of labor to help out a friend going through some rough stuff, several other days lost to errands, some heavy medica...

December Story Post: GI 5 Chapter 2

You knew it was coming! Unless you haven't been following. Or weren't paying attention. Or you've been busy. Life gets that way. But hey, here it is!

Chapter Two doesn't lay out the entire plot & premise of the book, but a lot of it is here... and some backstory, and also some smutty fun, and the previously-revealed brunch with Mom. Apologies in advance for where this leaves off; chapter three will pick up immediately after, but you'll get plenty of revelations with this one. Pacing...

December Spoilerific Sneak Peek: Tense Friendships

Hey again, everyone!

Good Intentions 5 continues rolling onward, though I fell short of my hopes for November. Surprisingly, I only lost a day’s work to our awful shitshow election. (I don’t want to invest much time talking about that, but if you’re here and you’re one of my readers, you can imagine I that wanted things to go the other way.) But I remembered my books are a way of helping people through rough stuff, so I bounced back fast and had a really productive week�...

Spoilerific Post: Corrections & Peril Most Perilous

Hello again!

So I realized, belatedly, that Grand Theft Sorcery released with a front-matter goof unrelated to the story. I had version control issues while building the files in Vellum, which led to me rebuilding the damn book three times before uploading it to Amazon... which is how I left out the dedication page.

This may mean nothing to most readers, but I felt pretty bad. Dedications are usually special, and this one was no exception. I've been meaning to do it for a long tim...

Story Post: GI 5, Chapter 1

Hi all!

Here it is. Good Intentions 5 is underway.

This one would work fine as a standalone story, too, though I would probably cut it off sooner. As with Past Due, we start with a check-in on Alex, Rachel, and Lorelei in their ordinary life (hah). In fact, it ties rather closely with that opening chapter of Past Due.

Alex doesn't feel the least bit bad about throwing those punches, but he knew when he did it that there'd inevitably be consequences from the university. Knew ...

AMA Time!

Hi all!

First off: THANK YOU so much to everyone who has picked up GRAND THEFT SORCERY! And a double thank you to everyone who wrote a review! Even one or two sentences is a huge help to the book.

This month's spoiler/preview tier post is an AMA with questions sourced earlier in October. I'm opening this one to all tiers as a thank you for all the support, particu...

AMA Time?

Hey folks.

With a big project done and now I'm moving into the next, is it time for another AMA for the first of the month? Worldbuilding, projects, characters, Thanksgiving recipes, anything?

Update/Edit: Yes, I guess this means if you have AMA questions, go ahead and post them here.

A Thank You and Two Requests!

Dear Patrons and Patreon friends,

I feel like I should open every post with a thank you for your support and for reading—which might get old, but then again, thank you. Seriously. This Patreon and your readership make a huge difference in my life and my career pretty regularly. With that in mind, though, I have to make two requests, if you have a couple minutes for it:

First: For current Patreon supporters, this is more “awareness” than “action,” but you sh...

IT'S OUT!! GRAND THEFT SORCERY is available now!

It's finally here!

GRAND THEFT SORCERY is live on the Kindle store! Paperback is in the queue and should go live any time now (possibly tomorrow), but you can grab the ebook now!

GTS is the Good Intentions spinoff I've been working on for much of this year. Patrons have read many of the early chapters in monthly posts. The whole books is now live!

I'm really proud of this one. Hop...