THE CRYPTID CATALOGER IS LIVE (And This Time I Wrote Twelve Chapters Before Telling Anyone)

It’s live. A few days ago I told you I was doing the objectively unwise thing and starting another serial, twelve years after my last one quietly died in a ditch. Today the bus is actually running. The Cryptid Cataloger is up on Patreon, and Chapter 1 is sitting there right now, waiting for you. Here’s the part I am most smug about, and I want it on the record before I jinx it: I wrote twelve chapters before launching. Twelve. Banked. Which means the schedule holds even when my brain decides, sometime in August, that it would simply rather be doing anything else. So — what is it. The Cryptid Cataloger follows Sutton Cove Attwater, a folklore PhD who lives in a 1972 VW bus named the Jackalope and drives from sighting to sighting, cataloging the legendary creatures of North America. She has a Sphinx cat named the Duchess who comes on every case and, as Sutton puts it, does not vote. Right now she’s in Charlotte, Vermont, working a deep cold lake that the local park service will not…