Sebastien
Month 8, Day 30, Monday 7:30 a.m.
Giving Sebastien the report on his research seemed to have released something held taut within Damien, and as they and their friends gathered for breakfast, he slumped listlessly...
2024-10-04 01:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: As you know, I took last week off to go through an Iteration pass on the first 20 chapters of this book. I have changed some things that are relevant to this chapter. Really, just to set up the existence of this chapter at all.
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2024-09-27 00:34:37 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 30, Monday 4:00 a.m.
Siobhan set aside her mind-reeling speculation about the cause of the Black Wastes and continued to read. The author of the scroll next delved into theories about ...
2024-09-12 23:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 30, Monday 2:30 a.m.
Siobhan’s left temple pulsed with the beginning of a headache. She released her Will’s hold on the glyphs, allowing Myrddin’s journal to revert into Delphic gibberish. She let out a soft ...
2024-09-06 00:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to do something nice for all my readers to celebrate A Practical Guide to Sorcery's 222nd chapter, and Stefanie stepped up to the plate and helped make it happen! Feast your eyes on Myrddin's spiced hot chocolate recipe.
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2024-09-04 01:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 23, Monday 12:15 a.m.
“My intentions?” Siobhan repeated slowly, trying to buy time while she figured out how to answer Thaddeus’s question. Her divination-diverting ward had not activated, meanin...
2024-08-29 23:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 28, Saturday 12:00 p.m.
Liza reached up and drew out one of her decorative hair-sticks, partially loosening her mass of curls. She held it like a battle wand, her grip steady and practiced. Her ...
2024-08-23 01:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 8, Day 28, Saturday 5:30 a.m.
Saturday morning, before the sun rose, Sebastien walked out to the Flats. Professor Lacer had asked her to meet him there in class the day before, and she didn’t know why. ...
2024-08-16 01:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 25, Wednesday 11:05 p.m.
As Siobhan stepped forward, the familiar-looking teenage girl, the two children, and the homeless man all took a simultaneous step back, almost as if the move were choreographe...
2024-08-09 01:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 25, Wednesday 10:20 p.m.
Millennium wanted to accompany them to the headquarters of the Undreaming Order—Siobhan was deeply reluctant to call it a “church”—but Gera and her brother Lynwood insi...
2024-08-02 00:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 8, Day 23, Monday 11:15 p.m.
Sebastien’s mind was spinning so fast and intently that she seemed to blink, look up, and find that they were already outside of the warded room in the depths of the white cli...
2024-07-26 01:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
I am away from home on family vacation but popping in to mention this in lieu of the weekly chapter.
We got a lot of good feedback from you about what kind of Practical Guide to Sorcery themed items you might...
Thaddeus
Month 8, Day 23, Monday 10:15 p.m.
Damien remained silent while Thaddeus escorted him back to the dorms and all the way to the end of the walkway between sleeping cubicles, but as soon as they arrived at the far e...
2024-07-12 01:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostDamien
Month 8, Day 23, Monday 9:20 p.m.
Back at the University in time for curfew, they found Tanya Canelo waiting at the entrance to their dorm room, doing what looked like a practice exam. This would be the end of her f...
2024-07-05 01:04:25 +0000 UTC View PostDamien
Month 8, Day 23, Monday 6:00 p.m.
When Ana returned from whatever social warfare she had been engaged with, her hair was frizzing out around her temples from sweat, but she was holding back a grin and flitting aroun...
2024-06-28 00:02:59 +0000 UTC View PostThaddeus
Month 8, Day 21, Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Despite Thaddeus’s attempts at efficiency, paperwork and in-depth after-action reports still took longer than they had any reasonable right to. It consumed almost two hours b...
2024-06-21 00:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 21, Saturday 8:15 a.m.
Siobhan felt the moment when they escaped whatever method the Red Guard had been using to track her from the maze. As the strain on her divination-diverting ward fell to the norm...
2024-06-14 01:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
As I know many of you have been looking forward to, the audiobook for A Practical Guide to Sorcery Book IV: A Foreboding of Woe is here!
Narrator Gabrielle de Cuir has outdone herself once more. Se...
2024-06-05 20:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostThaddeus
Month 8, Day 21, Saturday 7:50 a.m.
As Thaddeus, Captain Aisling, and Agent Marcurio forced their way free from the ever-changing hedge maze trying to trap them within, Captain Aisling spoke. “I do not believe I...
2024-05-31 00:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 21, Saturday 7:05 a.m.
Professor Lacer turned on Siobhan and scowled. “I distinctly remember mentioning that I would be observing from the edge of the board. So why, I wonder, did you start casting y...
2024-05-23 23:39:25 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 21, Saturday 6:55 a.m.
Captain Aisling and Agent Marcurio shared a look of surprise and distrust at Siobhan’s offer of a shadow-familiar demonstration.
“Totally safe,” Siobhan repeated.
... 2024-05-16 23:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 21, Saturday 6:35 a.m.
One unexpected benefit of no longer needing to sleep was that Siobhan could set appointments at times that would be inconvenient for others. Such as before the sun rose on a week...
2024-05-12 02:31:21 +0000 UTC View Post
My writing computer, an iMac, has been a trooper for many years with zero problems, but in the last few days has very suddenly slowed down to the point it takes minutes to load a web page. It will not even open Scrivener--which I need&nbs...
2024-04-30 15:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 15, Sunday 5:00 p.m.
Though it was a hassle, since she planned to talk to Professor Lacer that evening, Siobhan changed into her other form to travel back to the University. She didn’t have confirmat...
2024-04-26 01:09:46 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 8, Day 15, Sunday 3:15 p.m.
‘It is amazing how even adults—thaumaturges!—can be so impressed by the simplest of magic, cast by the Raven Queen with a bit of added flair and mystery,’ Siobhan ...
2024-04-19 00:50:57 +0000 UTC View PostThaddeus
Month 8 Day 15, Sunday 6:00 a.m.
Thaddeus had not slept.
The Raven Queen—Siobhan, as she had told him to call her—had left his cottage hours before, disappearing into the trees during the darkest hour of the night wh...
2024-04-06 00:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Bio: Liza is your not-so-friendly local illegal thaumaturge, perpetually low on both gold and spare fucks to give. She was conscripted to the army during the Haze War, when she was only a teenager. She survived the war, but her decades of service ...
2024-03-21 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Bio: By day, Grandmaster Kiernan is the head of the History Department at Lenore's famed Thaumaturgic University. By night, he moonlights as a key member in the subversive thaumaturgical society, The Architects of Khronos. He believes himself to b...
2024-03-18 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Bio Text: The manager of the Verdant Stag is a pragmatic woman with a biting attitude to match her striking appearance. Out of necessity, she took in her nephew, Theo. She struggles with the day-to-day balance between raising a child, successfully...
2024-03-01 23:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Bio Text: Bearing obviously non-human heritage that has given her a blue tint, Ilma is widely considered one of the best History professors at the University. She expects her students to critically analyze historical sources (including their poten...
2024-02-27 00:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post