Sande Baulch

UPDATE: 🐺🕵🏻‍♀️Jacqui Winter (A Brisbane After Dark Story)🕵🏻‍♀️🐺
📖 Chapters 16-19 are now available here to for you all to read!
Delve deeper into the case with Jacqui and say hello to a new character...🧔🏻‍♂️
➡️ https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1892893

For those of you enjoying what's here so far, just a reminder that advance chapters are available for my EAGER BEAVERS on Patreon!
➡️ https://www.patreon.com/collection/2113261
(Chapters are set out a little differently there (Inkitt Ch 1-19 = Patreon Ch 1-5). Hopefully it won't confuse you too much.)

✍🏻I'm sharing my WIP part by part as I polish drafts too, so members don't have to wait too long between servings. FYI here is what's NOT on Inkitt:
🕵🏻‍♀️ Jacqui Winter: Chapter 6 + 7 [Part 1]
🐦 The Bachderyn: Herbert's Guest (Reanimator) [Parts 2-3]
🔥 Freya's Howl: 2x Chapters - "Worship" + "Fight"
🚀 Salvage: Up to date - currently polishing draft of next chapter for release on Patreon this week
🫦 Tethered: Chapter 5 (Miriam POV)
🧟‍♀️Brisbane After Dark - Queen of the VANE (I have lots of raw material waiting in the wings, I just need to find the time for them)
🌩️ The Tempest Cycle: Finally, it would be remiss of me to forget the whole other story on there that got this whole ball rolling in early 2025. It's more leaning to YA High Fantasy than the rest of my stuff.
🐇Plus, there's a whole bunch of exclusive content in the Rabbit Holes for the worldbuilding junkies.

I seriously can't help myself. 😮‍💨

I know I should be resting, but I had to get the next chapter of The Bachderyn story "Herbert's Guest (Reanimator)" posted on Patreon today or I was going to go cray-cray. 🫨

For those of you who want to check it out before everybody else, it's NOW AVAILABLE to all of my 🦫 EAGER BEAVERS and 🐇 RABBIT HOLE Members.

👉🏻 https://www.patreon.com/SandeBaulch/posts/herberts-guest-2-170285814?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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Hey everyone and happy spooky season. 🎃

I just wanted to pop on here real quick and let you know that after the last few insane weeks of sorting out profiles and uploads across multiple platforms, writing and polishing chapters across five stories, cultivating my online presence within communities and creating my discord server, I may have inadvertently run myself into the ground.


Since maybe Tuesday, I've started to feel really sluggish, with back pain and headaches making it difficult to continue doing long stretches of writing and editing even though my brain is firing at a billion RPM, demanding to get it all done.
I've also been uncharacteristically snappy at Yìn who is probably just telling me to slow down and take a break (which I've ignored - also, I don't understand cat).

So I am going to give myself a couple of days to recalibrate.
But I feel guilty. It's so stupid, but I do. I know many of you are waiting for more, and I promise: new chapters are drafted and await a final re-read and polish for public consumption before they go up.

It just won't be this week as I had planned.

Should things change between now and next week, you'll be the first to know. But right now, I'm going to step away from the computer, rest my eyes and try to remind myself that this isn't life or death: it's absolutely necessary and totally OK to take a few days to clear my head and look after my meat suit as a priority. And I hope the rest of my author friends are doing the same.

In the meantime, since it's October now, head on over to Instagram and check out Geo Rutherford's Spooky Lakes and Haunted Hydrology Series:
👉🏼 https://www.instagram.com/geodesaurus?stkn=OHkzOW9wMXdzNXRr
I think this year will be her 7th Season so if you're new to her content, there's plenty there for you to catch up on. Despite the title, her shorts are seriously educational while gently poking fun at superstition, wildly addictive and Geo's dulcet tones of "ummm hello" paired with the perfect music and animations makes for a seriously addictive experience. People all over the world eagerly anticipate October just for her "out-of-ten spookies", and I personally can't recommend it enough.

Anyway I think I've said enough. I need to follow Yìn's example and have a nap.

Love you all.
🖤 Sande

Just wanted to quickly let everyone know I'm still here, working tirelessly on new chapters, and invite you to join my discord server!
https://discord.gg/5VVeeaKbC

This is where you can chat with other readers, ask me questions, check out what I'm listening to, share your theories, fan art, and obligatory pet pictures.

I've also got an authors-only channel for my fellow scribes and I to palaver, share feedback and boost each other up.

🔞 Please note it IS an adults-only server, as sensitive topics are discussed. Visitor discretion is advised

🖤

For readers of "Tethered", here's a pic I drew of Lady Miriam Jarvis of Lindley.
I'm not 100% happy that this is what she ACTUALLY looks like, but it's a start.
As a bit of a visual person, I really enjoy trying to capture what I imagine my characters looking like, so others can pick up what I'm putting down.

Oi! I need to tell you all what I'm currently reading AND LOVING!

“A Bond Woven by DNA” by Cass Newman - https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1763722
Isekai meets the Wars of the Roses in this historical romantasy. An intriguing guilty pleasure for fans of Outlander or the Kingsbridge books.

“Pickup Time” by Jad Dittmar - https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1404820
Set in a future where the internet has crashed but people refuse to give up their social media habits. Come for the unique plot, stay for RUFUS.

Great Job! I’m enjoying your isekai novel! Try and follow Jad Ditmar. I’m sure he will like your story. And Glenn_Vale he is also a voracious reader. I will be back in a few days and continue the story. I will give you a shoutout soon❤️

I just unlocked the Story Critic badge! 🚀

Find all 13 chapters in my stories or at: https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1888210

Just so you know, I don't just spend ALL of my days writing. I draw too. Here's my vision of Lucy dashing through the forest she's stumbled into on her way home from work at the beginning of "Freya's Howl".
If I was being chased my what sounded like a pack of velociraptors, I'd be shitting bricks too.