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The Aspects - Patreon Extra

I may have mentioned that I sometimes write scenes to clarify for myself what's going on outside of Noah's POV. I think I'll start posting those, if their ready for public consumption, along with the relevant chapters here. So this would be concurrent with the girls waking up and discovering Noah's "condition".

The Aspects

“Aveline!”

Viera glared at the scene unfolding before her. The boy was going to be put off sex all entire if this kept on, a...

Events and Appearances

I've finalized a few events I'll be at over the next few months. These will be as a vender, not a guest, so you'd find me in the vender hall hawking books. Just Florida right now, but I'll be expanding that over the next couple years. You can keep track on my website.

Warlock 3 - Preview Chapters

At Saucy McSaucemeister's request, seconded by my editor, here's a midweek drop. :)

Chapter

“This sucks,” Sam said, grabbing a muffin and orange juice from the cafeteria coolers.

The coolers were all that was available this early, but the main food line would be open any minute — we wouldn’t be joining it, because we were scheduled to meet with Mel for our class at five-thirty. Yes, Sam and I had a class with Mel at the end of the regular class-day ...

Warlock 3 - Back cover image

This is being worked on for the Warlock 3 paperback and hardcover back cover. (Shared with the AMA chat last night.)

Warlock 3: Preorder

The Warlock 3 preorder is now available.

The release date is set for November 1 - this is not the expected release date.

I set dates a couple months (sometimes more) past what I expect in order to not miss that date, yet still have the longest preorder that's practical - so still expect the actual release to be late July or August. :D

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F92QZ6HT 2025-05-18 16:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Warlock 3 - Preview Chapters

Chapter 18

I woke to the

A bit more work on the cover ...

Current Warlock 3 Cover Concept

Here's the current leader for the Warlock 3 cover.

Sam's Birthday - Patreon Extra

So sometimes I write a little something to clarify a scene or some aspect of a character for myself, and it's fun to share those with you.

SAM COMES INTO HER POWER

A Warlock: Book 1 Short

Daniel Kensington

© 2025 Kensington, All Rights Reserved

This story is canon and depicts events prior to Warlock: Book 1, occurring on Sam’s eighteenth birthday. It covers the source of her oath’s personal connection and the reason she, as a onesie, is sent to Willo...

Warlock 3 - Preview Chapters

Chapter 15

“What’s a consanguinity rite?” I asked as the rest of the crowd murmured.

I remembered Sam telling me consanguinity had something to do with how closely someone was related, but she hadn’t said anything about a ritual.

“It’s used when we’re not really sure how closely someone’s related — if the records are vague or were lost,” Rachel whispered.

I frowned — if it could tell us that, why hadn’t Mel done it before, rathe...

Warlock 3 Preview Chapters

This is half of what I planned to post this com

AMA Update

I realized that I only posted the link to the discord event, and not to the form to submit questions, so here it is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLvtCQRKvLGt9XguMQaCUqP2JZ68VgWoQksMvHsXmViEWdsg/viewform?pli=1

Discord AMA (Ask Me Anything)

https://discord.com/events/1308084311274160229/1368215012643963082

Saturday, May 17th, 8pm EST

You'll see me face; you'll hear me voice; the consequences are on you.

Discord registration and joining the Daniel Kensington server will be required, but a recording of the event will be put on Youtube sometime later.

Goblin Gigs preorder

The Goblin Gigs cover was finished today, so it's up for preorder -- no, the release date isn't real. :) I put it on long preorder in case something comes up -- I missed a date once and lost preorder for a year, so don't intend to risk that again.

Of course, you'll get a copy here when it's done.

https://www.amazon....

No Chapters This Week

But twice as many next Sunday, as well an extra.

The chapters next Sunday will all be Warlock, and we'll be previewing that weekly through completion, picking up Goblin Gigs after you get the full Warlock 3.

The extra will be Sam's 18th birthday for a bit more backstory on the character.

Production Plan

I think I'll post a monthly update on the future plans for publishing different works - save answering release-date questions individually. :D

Caveat: All dates are tentative. Lots can happen, some good, some bad. So all dates are subject to change.

To explain more in depth:

Production: Projects I'm actively working on.

Concept: Ideas I'm fleshing out - may go somewhere or not.

Fine, Not Grinder

Writing Update

tl;dr - Lost half the week to life-crap, but plugging along.

Allow me to whinge about my entirely first-world difficulties.

Tuesday night I went to play a poker tournament, a satellite into this weekend's $100k guaranteed tournament. I won the $85 satellite, so got a seat into the full tournament, running Day 1s Thursday through Saturday. Tournaments like this have multiple "day 1" in order to ...

~Grinder - Preview Chapters

Patreon didn't like the tables for skill sheets at all, but the gist is there, I guess. I'll figure something better out before the next preview, though the full skill sheets are rarely presented.

Chapter

The space beyond the door was all shadows, but the door was definitely open.

The timbers that had crossed it were set to the side and the door-halves themselves were folded back against the wall on either side of the opening.

Had whatever I was...

~Grinder - Preview Chapters

Chapter

“Of course I’m going with you,” Heather declared as we returned to my car.

The meeting with the lawyer had ended with a couple dozen of my signatures on papers, along with three times that in initials, and I had no idea what they were — for all I knew, I might have just signed away my soul or first-born child — but it got me a set of keys, an address, an...

Update

tl;dr - ~Grinder chapters coming later today, Warlock 3 chapters restarting in ~2-3 weeks.

Last weekend, my editor delivered what I asked, up to chapter nineteen of Warlock 3, edited, and ready to cover the next few weeks of previews.

Then I ... did a thing. It was a good writing week, got my 7- and 30-day running averages up over 2000 words, which is my target, wrote over 13,000 words just in W...

Warlock 3 Preview Chapters

Chapter

Our walk to the Willowmere grove was slow and stately, befitting the solemn occasion of binding a new witch to our coven.

“Come on, guys, hurry up!” Rachel called from where she was, about twenty feet ahead of us.

She dashed back, grinning, and I could swear I saw little sparks flying off her in the moonlit night.

I shivered. It was late-March — still pretty cold, especially at night, and I didn’t think the ritual robes we carr...

Cassandra's Marking - POV

My editor would like me to be clear that I only let her do one pass and any remaining errors are entirely my fault.

CASSANDRA’S MARKING POV

A Warlock: Book 2 Short

Daniel Kensington

© 2025 Kensington, All Rights Reserved

This story is canon and best read after Warlock: Book 2

Cassandra heard the restaurant door close behind her, closed her eyes and, clenching her teeth, started across the street, not bothering to look for traffic.

There ...

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We didn’t get any work on the cottage done on Wednesday, but were confident we could get the place somewhat livable by Thursday night — even if we would have to walk back to the residence building for toilets.

After classes, Sam, Cassandra, and I hung out in our room for the rest of the evening, just going downstairs for dinner, and as it got to be the time of the night where she’d usually go to her old room to give Sam and I some privacy, I could tell that Cassandra was getting n...

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“This is the most pillows Magistra Hennessy would give me,” Sam said, dumping a half dozen pillows to the floor next to the cottage’s sunken bed. “She said we’d have to pay for any not returned at the end of the term — or if they’re ‘unusable.’ It’s like she thinks we’re going to do something perverted with them.”

“Now why would she think that?” Cassandra muttered, tucking another sheet in between the cushions that made up the giant bed.

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“I’ll go wait downstairs,” Cassandra said. “Let me know when you’re done?”

After checking out a couple of the other cottages, we’d let Peter know that we’d go with number seven, then came back to our room to get ready for dinner, while Hannah and Brittany went to theirs. There were some things we needed to talk to Rachel about before I marked her on Thursday night and I wanted to get that out of the way — and before I forgot to ask a witch where she wanted our coven ma...

Warlock - Book 3 - Preview Chapter 250406a

Thank you for your patience as I get to the optimal way to post these -- given comments and DMs, it looks like one-chapter per post is preferable, or at least makes it easiest for some without being too onerous for others. I won't be sequentially numbering the preview chapters, instead using the format above -- this is because I tend to move things around and add things, so those numbers are somewhat fluid. In any case, here we go:

The Willowmere Cottages were in the forest behin...

Welcome!

So this is going to become a pinned welcome post with some frequently asked-for links and information. Curiously, Patreon says I can only pin a members-only post. :/ That seems silly, but it's their rules. So far we have:

We have a Discord with rampant speculation.

You can also order autographed copies if that's your thing.

If you like...

Hexenmeister - Band 1

If you can read that, you can probably guess what's coming. :)

Warlock, at least Book 1, will be available in German on Amazon shortly, and if you'd like to get it now, here's the link to download: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/rdnhk0n5ra

This is a bit of an experiment, and if it looks like the costs will be paid bac...

Warlock: Book 3 - Preview Chapters

I want y'all to know how much self-restraint it