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Newsletter 12/31/25

December: busy, busy, busy!

Writing wise, my stretch goal was to publish Our Secrets and Our Silence and What We’ve Almost Forgotten. I’m happy to confirm both are now complete! The Kindle and paperback versions should be live within the next few days, pending Amazon’s review. This month, I posted almost 20,000 words across these projects and logged almost twenty-three hours of focused drafting time.
I’m taking this January to recharge, work on other areas of my life, tie up some writing loose ends, and see what new fiction projects emerge. You can always keep up with my progress on TrackBear! I’m also super excited to be joining “Get Your Words Out” with a pledge of posting at least 150,000 words this year. (In 2025, I posted 176,162 words with about 253.5 hours of focused drafting time.)

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches, our twelfth this year. Thanks to everyone who attended! I’m currently in the process of onboarding new leadership.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted three Discord write-ins this month, as well as a social at my place. Thanks to everyone who attended! I hosted twenty-seven write-ins this year, plus nine socials.
In January, I’ll be hosting one Discord write-in on the 21st, and possibly some others. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more.

In December, I taught my uniforms class and my positions class. Thank you to everyone who attended! If you couldn’t make it, be sure to check out the on-demand versions. I taught nine live events this year.
In January, I’ll be back with M/s 301 speaking with Joshua Tenpenny about our journeys on 1/25. Join us (virtually)!

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.
I read some amazing books in December, including Simply More by Cynthia Erivo and Semi-Well-Adjusted by Alyson Stoner. My goal is to spend at least fifteen minutes learning/reading every day. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph! (And check out my 2025 reading wrap-up.)
Still so grateful to continue my work on the Leather Leadership Conference Board of Directors as our current Secretary, Communications Director, and Vending Chair. LLC is less than two months away, so remember to get your tickets and your rooms! Joining the LLC Board was one of the best things I did this year. I’ve attended thirty-eight LLC meetings since my first one around the beginning of May.
I got to spend so much time with family and friends new and old this month. It was such a good holiday season.
I started donating plasma again! I’ve been going twice a week since I restarted.
December gratitude: latkes, marathon Risk games, my Leather family, and staying warm by the fire.

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe January and New Year!

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Newsletter 11/30/25

November: where’d this big month go?

Writing wise, I set out to post ~25,000 words across Our Secrets and Our Silence and What We’ve Almost Remembered. I posted over 21,000 words for those projects, which I’m pretty happy with, especially given there’s more to come in December! I also logged over 29 hours of focused drafting time.
For December, my stretch goal is to publish both. We’ll see how it goes! Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In December, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 15th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month, as well as our monthly social at my place. Thanks to everyone who joined us for Noveling November!
In December, I’ll be hosting two Discord write-ins on the 10th and 26th, as well as our social on the 19th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more.

In November, I also had a great time presenting for “FLAIR Forward”! Thank you so much to the FLAIR team and to everyone who attended!
In December, I’ll be teaching my uniforms class on 12/6 and my positions class on 12/20. See you there!

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.
I read some amazing books in November, including Sociopath by Patric Gagne and The Unapologetic Professional by Brianna Doe. My goal is to spend at least fifteen minutes learning/reading every day. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph!
Still thrilled to continue my work on the Leather Leadership Conference Board of Directors as our current Secretary, Communications Director, and Vending Chair. I’m so grateful to get to work with such amazing people for an organization I love! Please join us in Los Angeles in February 2026!
I got to spend so much time with family and friends this month. Most notably, my beautiful wife and I celebrated our eighth anniversary and our fifth wedding anniversary!
November gratitude: so much wonderful weather, having the best mom ever, family Cards Against Humanity games and popcorn fights, my wife figuring out how to hold my wrists so I can happy flap over the new Wicked movie without subluxing anything this time!

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, safe, and festive December!

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Newsletter 9/30/25

September: strange month, but lots of good stuff going on!

Writing wise, I set out to write for one hour per day (with an exception for travel days). I largely stuck to this goal, although I took the equivalent of two days off due to illness. I posted updates for Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent), as well as a blog post: “Autonomy in Anticipatory Service”. I posted almost 13,000 words across my projects this month.
Next month, I’m keeping my goal the same. Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In October, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 20th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month, as well as our monthly social at my place. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In October, I’ll be hosting three Discord write-ins on the 1st, 15th, and 29th, as well as our social on the 17th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more.

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.
I read some great books in September. My favorite was The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker. My goal is to spend at least fifteen minutes learning/reading every day. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph!
I’ve been thrilled to continue my work on the Leather Leadership Conference Board of Directors. Please join us in Los Angeles in February 2026!
I also got to celebrate my wonderful wife’s birthday with her!
September gratitude: beautiful fall weather, my local libraries, and my amazing readers!

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, safe, and spooky October!

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Newsletter 8/31/25

August: what a month!

Writing wise, I set out to write for one hour per day (with an exception for travel days). I stuck to this goal, posting updates for Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent) as well as launching What We’ve Almost Remembered. I posted almost 14,000 words across my projects this month.
Next month, I’m keeping my goal the same. Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In September, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 15th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month, as well as our monthly social at my place. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In September, I’ll be hosting two Discord write-ins on the 7th and 17th, as well as our social on the 19th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more.

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.
I read some great books in August, including Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, Stress-Free Productivity by Dr. Alice Boyes, and Outofshapeworthlessloser by Gracie Gold. My goal is to spend at least fifteen minutes learning/reading every day. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph!
I’ve been thrilled to continue my work on the Leather Leadership Conference Board of Directors, including attending our Board retreat. I cannot express my gratitude and respect for Jane, Aaron, Dina, and Mita enough. Please join us in Los Angeles in February 2026!
I also took two amazing trips to San Francisco and to Portland. I got to see friends and family, take my first big train trip, spend a day boating and floating on Lake Sonoma, spend five hours in Powell’s Books, see the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, and so much more.
More August gratitude: laughing with friends and making new ones, great travel experiences, my oral surgery going well.

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe September!

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Newsletter 3/31/25

March: what a big month!

Writing wise, I set out to stick with my new goal of writing for one hour per day. Due to a lot of other exciting things going on, I changed my goal midmonth back to my usual forty-five minutes per day (minus a few travel days). I basically stuck to that, and posted over 14,000 words across my projects, including Act I of a three-part novelette, “What We’ve Almost Forgotten” and updates for Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent). Please let me know what you think in the comments sections of those works (and thank you to everyone who already has)!
Next month, I’ll stick with forty-five minutes per day. Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

This month, I returned to the Leather Leadership Conference for my third year as a presenter, this time to Level Up in Los Angeles, CA. I taught “Creating Sensory Friendly Events” and “The Literal Servant Leader”, read my story “The Night That Clara Just Wanted to Sleep” at the Community Showcase while two incredible improv volunteers brought the house down, and was beyond honored to become the newest member of the Board of Directors of the LLC! Thank you to everyone who made this weekend so awesome. Here’s my photo diary from the conference.
This month, I was also incredibly honored to win a House Exeter 2024 Community Education/Top 5 Class Award for “Productivity for Service”. Thank you so much to all of the wonderful people involved!
Next month, I’ll be teaching “The Ups & Downs of Service in a 24/7 M/s Dynamic” virtually with Joshua Tenpenny for M/s 301 on 4/27. Join us!

We had one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In April, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the twenty-first, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Next month, I’ll be hosting two more Discord write-ins on the 2nd and sixteenth. I’m also going to start hosting a new monthly social, in person at my place on the third Friday evening of each month, starting April 18th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here.

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my other favorite photos from this month.
I read so many amazing books this month. Shoutout to Scythe by Neal Shusterman, How to Calm Your Mind by Chris Bailey, Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green, Building a Non-Anxious Life by John Delony, and Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune. My goal is to spend at least fifteen minutes learning/reading every day. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph!
In March, I also went to some awesome events and spent some great time with family and friends.

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe April!

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Newsletter 1/31/25

Happy New Year!

Writing wise, I stuck to my goal of writing for forty-five minutes per day (with a few exceptions for travel/etc). I made two posts on Service Slave Secrets and there’s lots more in the works!
Next month: I’m going to take the first week of February to put the finishing touches on, type up, edit, format, and post more works I drafted in January. Then, I’ll be upping my goal to writing for one hour per day for the rest of February (so it’ll be like I wrote forty-five minutes per day for the whole month). Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

We had one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In February, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 17th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Next month, I’ll be hosting two more Discord write-ins on the 5th and 19th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here.

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month. I also participated in a great January photo challenge on FetLife.
This month, my best read was My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph!
I enjoyed a bunch of great time with family and friends, especially for my twenty-seventh birthday and my mom’s birthday as well!

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe February!

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Newsletter 11/30/24

November: a great month!

Writing wise, I stuck to my goal of writing for forty-five minutes per day. I posted “Six Near Misses (In 24/7 High Protocol)” (which hit Kinky and Popular on FetLife)! On Archive of Our Own, I posted updates for Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent) as well as To Be a Deviser, and a new little I’ll Give You companion (as a chapter of While the Lights Were Off).
Next month: sticking to writing for forty-five minutes per day. Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

This month, I taught “Productivity for Service” for Wicked Grounds and presented at FLAIR! Thank you to everyone who attended and the teams who made these events happen!
In December, I’ll be launching my new class, “Creating a Slave Uniform” on 12/8. I’ll also be teaching “The Butler Book and Beyond” for House Exeter on 12/9. You can also catch me on the Pragmatic Kink panel “Is It Community Service or Unpaid Labor?” on 12/5 and discussing “Protocols in Practice” on Dominance Dialogues on 12/12. You can find more details here. See you there!

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In December, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 16th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended! I also made it out to one of our in-person write-ins.
Next month, I’ll be hosting two more Discord write-ins on the 11th and 26th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here.

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.
Recently, I’ve loved reading The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll, Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Julia Shaw, and The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon.
Enjoyed some great time with family and friends, including my seventh anniversary with my lovely wife, and a good Thanksgiving!

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe December!

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Newsletter 10/31/24

October: where’d it go?

Writing wise, I stuck to my goal of writing for forty-five minutes per day. I posted “Tales From the Butler Academy: How Many Months Does It Take to Pour Wine?” as well as “The Worst Weekend” and updates for Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent).
Next month: sticking to writing forty-five minutes per day. Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!

I taught two classes this month: “How to Learn Protocols” for Wicked Grounds and a new class, “Creating Practical Slave Positions”. I was also on the community service/leadership at Service Oriented Conference. Thank you to everyone who attended and the teams who made these events happen!
In November, I’ll be teaching “Productivity for Service” for Wicked Grounds and presenting at FLAIR! You can find more details here. See you there!

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In November, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 18th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended! I also made it out to one of our in-person write-ins.
Next month, I’ll be hosting two more Discord write-ins on the 13th and 27th, and likely more! If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here. We have lots of exciting plans for our November Writing Challenge!

Other updates from this month:

Here are some of my favorite photos from this month.
Recently, I’ve loved reading The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen and Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas.
Went on a lovely trip with my wife and some of my in laws to Mineral King, CA!
Had a fun and spooky Halloween with friends!
Had an amazing chat with Auntie Vice on Fat Chicks On Top!

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe November!

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Newsletter 9/30/24

September: what a month!

Writing wise, I stuck to my goal of writing one hour per day. I published my eleventh book, the final book in the I’ll Give You trilogy. I also started two new projects: The Meta and the Matrix and Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent). I also posted updates for To Be a Deviser, and “What We Talk About When We Talk About CNC Stigma” on Service Slave Secrets (which hit Kinky and Popular on FetLife), for a total of adding over 22,000 words across my projects.
Next month: adjusting my goal to writing forty-five minutes per day.

I taught two classes this month:”Contract Systems” for Pragmatic Kink and “24/7 High Protocol Dynamics” for MAsT Marietta Women. Thank you to everyone who attended and the teams who made them happen!
In October, I’ll be teaching “How to Learn Protocols” for Wicked Grounds on 10/8 and a new class, “Creating Practical Slave Positions” on 10/13. I’ll also be on a panel at Service Oriented Conference. You can find all the details here. See you there!

I hosted one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
In October, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the 21st, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended! I also made it out to one of our in-person write-ins.
Next month, I’ll be hosting three more Discord write-ins on the 2nd, 16th, and 30th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here.

Other updates from this month:

Went to several awesome events—munches, classes, play parties.
Did more crafting and baking, made some improvements in the house, and have been playing (and winning at) more chess.
It was Mistress’ birthday!
Made some good progress on the butler school course.
Did some really fun play! Here’s a video.
Made some important medical strides!
Enjoyed getting out a bit more in general, especially enjoying the cooler weather at parks, as well as dessert places, libraries, and bookstores.

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe October!

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Newsletter 7/31/24

July: what a month!

Writing wise, I stuck to my general goal of at least spending the time between my winddown routine and bedtime (or the equivalent) writing whenever I don’t have an event/conflict. I posted updates for the third book in the I’ll Give You trilogy, as well as a new standalone Contrivance companion, “As Long as You Name Me Victor“, posting a total of about 25,000 words across my projects. With that, I published my tenth book: Tales From Contrivance Headquarters!
Next month: sticking to my daily goal.

I taught two classes this month: “Tarot Reading as a Service” for Wicked Grounds and “Contract Systems” for Service Chats. Thank you to everyone who attended, and to the teams who made them happen!
In August, I’ll be teaching “Service Schedules” on 8/18 and “Professional Skills for Service” on 8/25. Both of these events are virtual and free. You can find all the details here. See you there!

We had two Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: two of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped out!
In August, there will be one of our usual munches on the 26th, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.

For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended! I also got to go to a few other write-ins both virtually and in person.
Next month, I’ll be hosting two more Discord write-ins on the 7th and 21st. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here.

Other updates from this month:

I’ve been spending a lot of time outside this summer, including camping on Mt. Charleston and swimming at Cowabunga Canyon!
Did a lot of fun social stuff and have enjoyed getting out more.
Read some interesting books, including Polysecure by Jessica Fern, A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee, and All Girls by Emily Layden.

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe August!

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