Elliott Kay Wiki:News archive

Archive of the news collected on the wiki front page.

2025

• The draft chapter 3 for Poor Man’s Fight 7 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (November 4, 2025)
• Never Too Many, Chapter Two has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (October 15, 2025)
• The draft chapter 2 for Poor Man’s Fight 7 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (October 1, 2025)
• Devil in the Details, a.k.a. Good Intentions 5, was released three months agao! What happens in Vegas does not necessarily stay in Vegas, and from now on, the entire book will begin to be covered on the wiki. Spoiler notices for the book will remain on affected pages. (September 24, 2025)
• Bonus story: Never Too Many, Chapter One has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (September 9, 2025)
• The draft prologue for Poor Man’s Fight 7 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (September 2, 2025)
• Interested in more audio editions of Elliott Kay’s books? There are polls for Small Victories, Great Power and No Responsibilities, and Single-Series Audiobook. (August 5, 2025)
• Writing of Poor Man’s Fight 7 has started, and “Off the Books”—a very early short story/draft of chapter 1—has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (August 1, 2025)
• Interested in more audio editions of Elliott Kay’s books? There is a poll for that. (July 16, 2025)
• Elliott Kay will be in the programme at the 2025 Worldcon! Topics include “Building Writing Skills Through Fan Fiction”, “Writing to Trend or Writing the Book of Your Heart”, and “Where’s the Money in Indie Publishing?” (July 10, 2025)
• The new novelette “Vocational Shift” has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (July 4, 2025)
• Devil in the Details, a.k.a. Good Intentions 5, has been released! What happens in Vegas does not necessarily stay in Vegas. But due to logistical concerns, the updates on the wiki may be scarce the coming week. (June 24, 2025)
• Grand Theft Sorcery is now released as an audiobook, narrated by Tess Irondale! (June 17, 2025)
• Want signed copies of Elliott Kay’s books? There are plans for buying and delivering signed paperbacks in a public post on Patreon. (June 5, 2025)
• The draft chapter 8—“Alone In the Crowd”—of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon, and so has the warning! (June 3, 2025)
• The draft chapter 7—“Family Resemblance”—of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (May 3, 2025)
• Elliott Kay will be at Norwescon 47, April 17–20, 2025. Check the schedule for exact items. Worldbuilding: Military will be streamed on Twitch. (April 11, 2025)
• The draft chapter 6—“Welcome to Vegas”—of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon: Story Post: GI V, Chapter Six! In other book news, the draft stands at 150k+ words and is nearly finished. Work on the book cover has begun: Updates and Sneaky Bits! (April 2, 2025)
• The draft chapter 5—“Trust”—of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (March 2, 2025)
• The draft chapter 4—“Detours”—of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (February 1, 2025)
• Good Intentions 5 has moved past 100K words. (January 30, 2025)
• Roughly three months since the release of Grand Theft Sorcery, and now the pages involving the book will start to cover its entirety. Ledes and infoboxes will remain spoiler-free. (January 15, 2025)
• The draft chapter 3 of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (January 1, 2025)

2024

• Major ongoing work on the wiki. Almost all of the entries receive a rewrite to clear out present tense, and pages involving Grand Theft Sorcery will cover more of the story (i.e. there will be more spoilers). (December 15, 2024)
• The draft chapter 2 of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (December 3, 2024)
• The draft chapter 1 of Good Intentions 5 has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (November 1, 2024)
• Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 1, “God on the Run”, has been posted on Elliott Kay’s blog! (October 21, 2024)
• Grand Theft Sorcery is available as an ebook on Amazon! (October 16, 2024)
• Cover art, blurb, and the warning for Grand Theft Sorcery has been unveiled! (October 9, 2024)
• Grand Theft Sorcery is in the long slow final phase of production. More importantly, writing on Good Intentions 5 has started and the draft prologue is posted on Patreon. (October 1, 2024)
• A sneak peek of Grand Theft Sorcery has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! The book is with the editor and the cover is in production. (September 16, 2024)
• “Altered Plans” has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (September 6, 2024)
• A rather large typographical update, focusing on body text width and lists. (September 1, 2024)
• The administrator (and main maintainer) is busy at Worldcon in Glasgow. (August 10, 2024)
• “So Many Crimes”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 12, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (August 2, 2024)
• The initial draft of Grand Theft Sorcery has been finished. (August 1, 2024) Now waits rounds of editing and all the other steps to turn a manuscript into a book.
• “Gravity”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 11, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (July 1, 2024)
• Great Power and No Responsibilities is available as an ebook on Amazon! (June 28, 2024)
• Great Power and No Responsibilities is up for pre-order on Amazon.com, and will be on sale from June 28! (June 19, 2024)
• The wiki participates in the structured quotes test on our hosting service. This is unlikely to impact regular readers, but let the admin know of any issues. (June 17, 2024)
• “Penumbra”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 10, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (June 4, 2024)
• New on the wiki: Tropes in Good Intentions! (June 4, 2024)
• A sample chapter of Great Power and No Responsibilities, a forthcoming novel by Elliott Kay, was posted to his Patreon! (June 4, 2024)
• “Stellar Drift”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 9, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (May 2, 2024)
• Hot Restart is now available as an audiobook from Audible and other vendors! (April 30, 2024)
• An audio narration of “Wants and Needs” has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon, narrated by Tess Irondale! (April 11, 2024)
• “Upshift”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 8, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (April 2, 2024)
• Elliott Kay will be at Norwescon 46, March 28–31. Note: None of the panels where he participates will be streamed. (March 28, 2024)
• No Man’s Land is now available as an audiobook from Audible! The audiobook of Hot Restart will likely be released in April. (March 19, 2024)
• “Pathfinding”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 7, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (March 2, 2024)
• Tess Irondale has finished production of the Hot Restart audiobook. Now there is only sound editing, re-takes, mastering, and likely some other arcane stuff remaining… (Tess Irondale’s Discord server, February 5, 2024)
• Audiobook news! Tess Irondale is nearing the end of production for Hot Restart and Tim Pabon has begun preparation for narrating No Man’s Land. (February 1, 2024)
• “Perihelion”, a.k.a. Grand Theft Sorcery chapter 6, has been posted to Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (February 1, 2024)
• The flash-fic “Wants and Needs” has been posted on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (February 1, 2024)
• “God on the Run” and sequels now have a working title: Grand Theft Sorcery (January 15, 2024)
• The short story “Charting Stars” has been published on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (January 1, 2024)

2023

• Elliott Kay will talk about Hot Restart and audiobooks over on Tess Irondale’s Discord (event link), on Saturday January 30, at 18:00 UTC! (December 28, 2023)
• ’Tis the season of giving great pleasure over on Elliott Kay’s Patreon. (December 25, 2023)
• There are now tentative plans to publish Hot Restart as an audiobook, narrated by Tess Irondale, as well as for No Man’s Land! No estimated time of publication yet for either. (December 11, 2023)
• Evan Murphy’s adventures continue. “Dead Reckoning” has been published on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (December 1, 2023)
• Shady dealings on the Patreon are shady. (November 1, 2023)
• No Man’s Land is available on Kindle on Amazon! Read the first chapter. (October 10, 2023)
• The first chapter of No Man’s Land is available! E-book pre-orders are up on Amazon, and it will be published on October 10. (October 3, 2023)
• The novelette “Constellations” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (October 1, 2023)
• Added experiment with polls on the main page. Note that it requires an account for participating. (September 30, 2023)
• The cover for No Man’s Land has been revealed, and the book will hopefully be published during October! (September 21, 2023)
• No Man’s Land, the next book in the Poor Man’s Fight series, will be “out soon!” (September 15, 2023)
• What happens on the Patreon stays on the Patreon. (September 1, 2023)
• No Man’s Land, the next book in the Poor Man’s Fight series, is in the stage of editorial drudge work in preparation for publication where no news is good news. (September 1, 2023)
• The short story “Celestial Navigation” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (August 4, 2023)
• The draft of the next book in the Poor Man’s Fight series has been finished. The tentative title is No Man’s Land. (July 16, 2023)
• The short story “Red Flags” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (July 4, 2023)
• Posted Sex and magic to the site’s blogroll! (June 26, 2023)
• The short story “The Morning After” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (June 6, 2023)
• Posted Queer and poly themes in Good Intentions to the site’s blogroll! (June 2, 2023)
• The short story “Conduct Unbecoming” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (May 2, 2023)
• The “flash fiction” “Tempted and Tested” has been posted on Patreon! (May 1, 2023)
• The mobile version of this site has received a thorough design overhaul, though some things remains to be worked on. (April 29, 2023)
• The streamed Norwescon panels have disappeared from their Twitch account. (April 15, 2023)
• Two panels with Elliott Kay from Norwescon can be viewed on Twitch: Writing space battles and Writing when it’s a grind (note: video has the wrong title). (April 11, 2023)
• The “flash fiction” “Seduction” has been posted on Patreon! (April 4, 2023)
• The short story “More Than Friends” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (April 3, 2023)
• Elliott Kay will be at Norwescon April 6–9 at SeaTac, participating in several panels. (March 28, 2023)
• Elliott Kay has started to write and publish flash fiction on the Patreon. First out is “Janeka Finds Out”! (March 15, 2023)
• The novelette ”God on the Run” has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (March 3, 2023)
• Added Poor Man’s Fight reading order to the wiki! (March 3, 2023)
• Low-Key Calamities has been released! (February 21, 2023)
• The next book in the Poor Man’s Fight series is currently being written. No estimation of publishing date yet. (February 5, 2023)
• “A Most Noble Quest”, a Good Intentions short story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (January 30, 2023)
• “Mostly Hype”, a Poor Man’s Fight novelette, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (January 8, 2023)
• The next collection of short stories will be titled Low-Key Calamities, per a Patreon update. (January 4, 2023)

2022

• Font change on the wiki! Please let me know what you think! (December 14, 2022)
• Run Like Hell is FREE on Kindle between December 8 and December 12 2022! (December 8, 2022)
• “Losses”, a Poor Man’s Fight story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (December 1, 2022)
• “Insiders”, a Wandering Monsters story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (November 3, 2022)
• “Trust”, a Good Intentions story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (October 7 2022)
• The sixth book in the Poor Man’s Fight series is currently being written. No estimate of publication yet. (September 19, 2022)
• “Accomplished”, a Good Intentions story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (September 2 2022)
• Hot Restart has been published! (August 23 2022)
• “Vigilance”, a Poor Man’s Fight story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (July 29 2022)
• Chapter One: HOT RESTART (Coming soon! Sooo soon!) on Elliott Kay’s blog. Includes intro, blurb, and the first chapter. (July 27 2022)
• Hot Restart will be out “Sooooon”. (Elliott Kay on Twitter, July 22 2022)
• Implementation of a crude tagging system, based on the warnings given for most publications. It’s not complete yet! (July 19 2022)
• “Amends”, a Good Intentions story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (July 7 2022)
• Hot Restart is with the editor and cover art is in the works. (Patreon June 15 2022)
• “The Mediator”, a Wandering Monsters story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (June 3 2022)
• Hot Restart has been finished as draft. The cover is in the works, and the book is in revisions. (Patreon May 3 2022)
• “Friends”, a Tanner Malone story, has been released on Elliott Kay’s Patreon! (May 3 2022)

2021

• Habitual Heroes is available as an ebook! (December 28, 2021)