S. E. Robertson Fiction – hand-crafted artisanal rambling

The cover of The Ballad of the Bardbarian, centered on a background of a stone wall.

October 17, 2024December 11, 2024Therapist in Another World Series

Newest Release

The Ballad of the Bardbarian (How I Became a Therapist in Another World book 8) Reborn through the power of music Henry Rocksmasher, […]

The book cover for How I Became a Therapist in Another World book 1.

October 17, 2024October 19, 2024Therapist in Another World Series

How I Became a Therapist in Another World Series: Novella 1 of 8

Genre/keywords: fantasy isekai but make it tired, millennial, and gay; let’s throw all the tropes in a blender with a giant pile […]

The cover of The Healers' Road, centered on a background of a wildflower meadow.

September 7, 2023December 17, 2024The Healers' Road (Book 1)

The Healers book 1 of 3: The Healers’ Road

Genre/keywords: slice-of-life fantasy, queernorm, shouting-distance-from-cozy fantasy but check the content warnings first please, character-driven, road trip from hell, unlikely friendship, please note: […]

An illustration of a wall with a rose design painted on it. (Though not identifiable as such out of context, this is a screenshot from the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena.)

January 9, 2025website news

“Why” is a completely separate question

I am nominally now on Bluesky at @feelingsandmagic.bsky.social, because I couldn’t come up with a snappy amalgam of my pen names, cageandaquarium […]

Promotional graphic for Cozy the Day Away Sale, featuring a cartoon axolotl reading a book.

December 28, 2024Sales

It’s back! Dec. 29, 2024 only

Okay, last sale of the year! Dec. 29, 2024 only (based on Central US time, so UTC -6), over one hundred books […]

December 22, 2024December 28, 2024The Process

New adventures with silly machines

Okay, ProWritingAid has been useful for some things. It helped me fix my inconsistent spelling of “catalog”/”catalogue” and use of the Oxford […]

December 18, 2024December 31, 2024Checking In

2024 Retrospective: Numbers, Year 10

Year end check-in time! I’m going to keep this here instead of the newsletter, because I believe in promoting more transparency around […]

December 18, 2024December 18, 2024Checking In

End of Year Media Consumption Extravaganza

I find these amusing, and posting them outside social media is not what the apps who make them want anyway, so I’m both […]

November 28, 2024The Process

$200 and one soul

This isn’t meant to be a justification or an excuse, but I thought it was important to disclose. I decided to get […]

A path leading straight ahead through some woods. The trees are still green, but fallen leaves line the edges of the path.

November 20, 2024November 20, 2024anime nerd corner, as a reader, games nerd corner, Recs, The Process

No-longer-loose ends

Just a few short updates.

A meme mashing together a Pokemon game, some variety of Final Fantasy I can't identify because I'm apparently a fake fan, and I believe some made-up dialogue. Top frame, three Pokemon and a dialogue box: (I have to believe in myself more.) Bottom frame, an animated human looking exasperated with a dialogue box: "Believe in myself??" The same person who got me into this mess?

November 16, 2024November 18, 2024The Healers' Home (Book 2), The Healers' Purpose (Book 3), The Healers' Road (Book 1)

Healers new edition updates

OK, things are slightly cattywhompus, but I’m working on it! The second edition of the Healers trilogy is up in ebook form […]

November 15, 2024November 15, 2024website news

Whoops.

I still had the old mailing list form in the footer. Apologies to anyone who found that first. I’ll email the old […]

November 6, 2024The Healers' Road (Book 1), Therapist in Another World Series, website news

Free stuff in a new venue

The new newsletter is now active here! It all came together, phew! Join us for free short stories from each series, and […]