Hello again everyone! Today's update is a present. FOR BACKERS!!! And a blueballing for followers. Below you'll find the full first episode of my upcoming web serial, SUMMON THE MAGE-WIFE. Well, if you're a backer. If you're a follower you'll see the blurb and a few paragraphs. THE REST IS BEHIND THE PAYWALL LIKE I'M SOME KINDA BIG SHOT.

As a reminder, if you are a pre-launch follower who BACKS the project, you'll get early updates to magewife on my patreon FOR FREE. Twice the writing! Twice the moms! TWICE THE ME!! Each episode is a "novelette" or very long short story at 8-10k words, equivalent to a few chapters of a novel.

Summon the Mage-Wife is a procedural fantasy about a midwife who delivers babies others can't–or wont. It’s The Witcher meets Call the Midwife meets Rourouni Kenshin with a magipunk twist.

 

River of Blood is a woman with a dark past and a lust for vengeance. Too bad she's sworn off killing. Now she brings life into the world instead of taking it out. From celestials to kelpies to sphinxes and draconic empresses, everyone gets a baby (if they want). More importantly, everyone gets the help they need–regardless of whether the vampires in government want them to get it or not.

 

Colonialism, women’s rights, personal crimes versus systemic injustices, Summon the Mage-wife covers it all with humour, magic, and depictions of birth that don’t shy from reality despite being wholly fantasy.

Enjoy!

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With the grass wet on her back and the sun creeping over the horizon, River of Blood watched a vampire take over her nation. The livestream was a bit fuzzy; reception wasn’t great out in the boonies. River didn’t listen to the words the vampire said—if she had to see its face, then she could at least avoid hearing its voice. She read the captions and cursed the long-dead man with the wide moustache and goatee, the grey skin that once had been swarthy, the dead eyes that had watched her home burn.

“You may have escaped death, but there are other places to send you than hell,” River said.

 The vampire thanked everyone for voting it in. spoke of taxation and innovation, of the importance of personal autonomy and national autonomy. It then said the words River knew were going to come out of its mouth, the words that everyone said would never come out of its mouth even though the vampire had clearly and repeatedly said that it would say exactly these words at exactly this time.

(continued for backers below...)