Briefly interrupting the fairytale series to let you know that I’ve opened up 2 more slots on my higher Ko-Fi tier – lower tier slots are also open. Check out what’s on offer! Lots of new stuff, including details of a Ricky-focused short story collection… keep reading for more details.
What’s Included
You can check out the full list of all my posts (since 2021) here on this site: https://cmrosens.com/ko-fi-posts-masterlist/
Membership gets you access to all of these, plus you can download the following books for free:
- Birds of a Feather – just for fun, a Ko-Fi exclusive novel set in a council estate, following the plot of The Crows (loosely) without the eldritch horror. Members get to see my drafting process for this, annotated with my thoughts and ideas, with a playlist, and the first post of that is here: https://ko-fi.com/post/AU-Carrie-Ricky-Part-1n-E1E4EE6NJ
- The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre – just for fun, a slasher short that features Ricky and Carrie trying to have a quiet night in on Halloween… but fate has other ideas. The audio version of this is on my podcast, free to listen, and the first episode is here. You can also find it across all podcast platforms (including Apple and Spotify, etc).
- The Reluctant Husband – a novelette featuring Nathan Porter and his descent into the darkness, via an ill-judged cup of tea, a housemaid, and her strangely squirming bosom.
- The Poetry of Betrayal – the backstory of Eglantine Pritchard (some of it, from 1904-1912), sketched out in another novelette. This is members only, and not for general sale. It links to the May 2023 card I sent out with some explanation as to how this fits with the lore and history of the characters, who so far have been all off-page.
Last Year:
Last year I ended 2023 with a series of letters from Katy, Carrie/Ricky, and Wes, exploring a possible plotline for Book 4 in the series. These posts are all available for new members to read and follow along with. This series started in July 2023, where Katy reveals she’s being stalked by something rather than someone, and was continued in August, where Ricky sent details of a ritual, September, where Carrie fills in some info and history/context, October, which also includes a snippet of prose featuring Katy’s encounter with a kind of parasitic Outer God, and was concluded in November, which featured Wes vs other Outer Gods as a prose snippet. In December, everyone received a Yule card from Carrie, with some hope that all is now resolved.
I’m looking at tying these ideas up into an actual coherent story, but let’s see, as I also have other ideas and I’m developing outlines now.
This Year:
I’m writing a series of short stories from Ricky’s childhood, teens, and adulthood. I’ve already got one short story, “Gerald“, available to members – the first time Ricky (10 years old) met Myrddin, and how Gerald got his name. It was in the hardback edition of The Crows, which was a limited print run.
January’s story was “June“, and the beginning of the whole Wes/Ricky thing when they were 17. This is due to be continued in later months.
February’s story is “Poison”, set on Ricky’s 14th birthday. This comes with a postcard featuring an illustration from the original edition of The Crows and the artist Thomas S. Brown’s details, including a QR code link to his Patreon.
March-June will be similar: Ricky stories each month + a postcard mailed to higher tier members. Lower tier members get the digital versions on Ko-Fi.
These stories will be edited and compiled into a Ricky-focused collection that will go on sale as an eBook, but be free to members of both ‘Eldritch’ tiers to download in its final form.
Of course, if none of that appeals but you want to drop me a one-off tip, you can do that, or if you just want to drop me a monthly £1.00 in support of the podcast and its hosting costs, I’d appreciate that too. With that tier, you get access to older posts (the monthly posts from Nov 2021-Dec 2023) and a free eBook copy of The Reluctant Husband to download from my shop. To get new posts, you can upgrade to the Eldritch tiers at any time.
Most of all, thank YOU so much for supporting me and reading this post all the way to the end! You are deeply appreciated.
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