Steph and Jeff Writes
@stephandjeffwrites.bsky.social
We are the fantasy and horror writing duo of Jeff Durkin and Steph Nelson. Our latest novel is The Curia Chronicles. We also created a Curia podcast series and host Script Slayers where we do movie reviews and rewrites. https://www.curiachronicles.com/
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Demons hide among us…only the Curia can stop them.
Need an escape from reality? Check out our novel, The Curia Chronicles, a contemporary fantasy thriller. a.co/d/8hfGoGE
Need an escape from reality? Check out our novel, The Curia Chronicles, a contemporary fantasy thriller. a.co/d/8hfGoGE
Jeff - So, in a few days I'm shutting down this Bluesky account in order to stop duplicating efforts. If you are interested in what I'm up to - and what Steph and I are doing - check out my main account at @drgonzo2022.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Jeff - So, in a few days I'm shutting down this Bluesky account in order to stop duplicating efforts. If you are interested in what I'm up to - and what Steph and I are doing - check out my main account at @drgonzo2022.bsky.social.
A new #Vaesen module is out. Up, Up, And Away! provides rules for balloons. The 8 page module includes history, new rules for flying (and falling), and a few balloons from the 19th century. Check it out... and take to the skies :-)
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Up, Up, And Away! - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG
Up, Up, And Away! brings balloons into Vaesen. This module consists of a brief histroy of ballooning in the 19th century, rules for balloon operation, equipment options, rules for altitude, falling, f...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A new #Vaesen module is out. Up, Up, And Away! provides rules for balloons. The 8 page module includes history, new rules for flying (and falling), and a few balloons from the 19th century. Check it out... and take to the skies :-)
#TTRPG
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#TTRPG
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I hope to get my American archetype book down for Christmas, but I'll be pretty happy if I can get these three items done.
#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign
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September 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I hope to get my American archetype book down for Christmas, but I'll be pretty happy if I can get these three items done.
#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign
#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign
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3. Cross Foundation sourcebook - about 20 pages of background for the Cross Foundation, the main Vaesen hunting society in the US. Should be out by the end of November.
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
3. Cross Foundation sourcebook - about 20 pages of background for the Cross Foundation, the main Vaesen hunting society in the US. Should be out by the end of November.
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2. Salem - My Halloween module. What if some of the victims of the Salem Witch trials had actual powers and used them to take over the town, while waiting for a new age of magic. About 15 pages with history of the town, the trials, a description of the town in the 1890s, rules for witches. By Oct 31
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
2. Salem - My Halloween module. What if some of the victims of the Salem Witch trials had actual powers and used them to take over the town, while waiting for a new age of magic. About 15 pages with history of the town, the trials, a description of the town in the 1890s, rules for witches. By Oct 31
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Next three #Vaesen books (with loose availability):
1. Up, Up and away: Balloons in Vaesen. This will be short (2-3 pgs) and will be PWYW title. Useful with the newly released Airship module. Hope to have it out next week.
1. Up, Up and away: Balloons in Vaesen. This will be short (2-3 pgs) and will be PWYW title. Useful with the newly released Airship module. Hope to have it out next week.
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Next three #Vaesen books (with loose availability):
1. Up, Up and away: Balloons in Vaesen. This will be short (2-3 pgs) and will be PWYW title. Useful with the newly released Airship module. Hope to have it out next week.
1. Up, Up and away: Balloons in Vaesen. This will be short (2-3 pgs) and will be PWYW title. Useful with the newly released Airship module. Hope to have it out next week.
My latest module for #Vaesen is (finally) available. What are the mysterious airships in the skies of Mythic America? Find out with Watch The Skies!, a 13 page module containing history, lore, adventures seeds and new Vaesen. Available on #Drive-thruRPG.
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Watch The Skies! - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG
Watch The Skies! brings the airship phenomenon of the 1890s into the Mythic 19th century. Why are there strange, technologically advanced craft in the skies of America? Who are the mysterious visitors...
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September 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My latest module for #Vaesen is (finally) available. What are the mysterious airships in the skies of Mythic America? Find out with Watch The Skies!, a 13 page module containing history, lore, adventures seeds and new Vaesen. Available on #Drive-thruRPG.
#TTRPG
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#TTRPG
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Oh, I'll be at the Fright Reads book festival on September 13 and 14 in West Friendship, MD. I'll be at the Curia Chronicles booth, hawking my wears. I'll be the one looking super uncomfortable talking to strangers...
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Oh, I'll be at the Fright Reads book festival on September 13 and 14 in West Friendship, MD. I'll be at the Curia Chronicles booth, hawking my wears. I'll be the one looking super uncomfortable talking to strangers...
Jeff here - today is game development day... for a game module I should have had done last week... but that I got side tracked by shiny things (Call of Duty Mobile and War Thunder... shiny and explody) for a couple of days. As a wise skunk once said, "Le sigh."
#TTRPG #Writing
#TTRPG #Writing
August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Jeff here - Travel day. Begjnning of my 3-ish day train trip. Hopefully I'll get a lot of writing done. Will Amtrak deliver another pleasant experience? Or will I wish I'd flown... naw. Avoiding the concentrated annoyances of flying is a solid positive. #travelsky (is that a thing? Now it is.)
July 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jeff here - Travel day. Begjnning of my 3-ish day train trip. Hopefully I'll get a lot of writing done. Will Amtrak deliver another pleasant experience? Or will I wish I'd flown... naw. Avoiding the concentrated annoyances of flying is a solid positive. #travelsky (is that a thing? Now it is.)
Jeff here - Took a few days off after getting the last game module out. Next up - scripts for the YouTube series i'm working on (which starts filming in August) and the first twelve chapters of the next novel - the first in a series about witches in 1940s Hollywood - by the end of the month.
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Jeff here - Took a few days off after getting the last game module out. Next up - scripts for the YouTube series i'm working on (which starts filming in August) and the first twelve chapters of the next novel - the first in a series about witches in 1940s Hollywood - by the end of the month.
Jeff here - this is my latest #Vaesen module, American Legends.
Celebrate the Fourth and buy my latest #Vaesen module, American Legends. John Henry, Paul Bunyan and a 4 other unique Vaesen for adventures in the Mythic United States. #ttrpg
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American Legends - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG
American Legends is the latest module in my American Vaesen series. In it, you will find statistics, background, and adventure ideas for six unique figures from American mythic history, Vaesen who hav...
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July 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Jeff here - this is my latest #Vaesen module, American Legends.
Jeff here - started the day on my other feed with George Owell... works here as well.
"Julia was twenty-six years old... and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor...She could describe the whole process of composing a novel...
June 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Jeff here - started the day on my other feed with George Owell... works here as well.
Jeff here - a Federal judge in San Fran said it was fine for the AI slop-factory Anthropic to use copy-written material without permission or compensation to feed our computer overlords. The judge bought the fair use argument, even though... 1/2
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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Jeff here - a Federal judge in San Fran said it was fine for the AI slop-factory Anthropic to use copy-written material without permission or compensation to feed our computer overlords. The judge bought the fair use argument, even though... 1/2
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Jeff here - Been radio silent for the last few days, mostly because I've been trying not to doom-spiral over Trump taking us to war with Iran. However, deadlines & the creative urge can only be put off for so long. Still on track for next week's American Legends Vaesen module release. #Vaesen #TTRGP
June 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Jeff here - Been radio silent for the last few days, mostly because I've been trying not to doom-spiral over Trump taking us to war with Iran. However, deadlines & the creative urge can only be put off for so long. Still on track for next week's American Legends Vaesen module release. #Vaesen #TTRGP
Writing update - progress is being made on the YouTube front. Should be able to start releasing regular videos in a few weeks. On the game module front, hit a minor snag (self-doubt, the writer's worst enemy... that and semi-colons), but am back on track for American Legends to be out on July 4.
June 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Writing update - progress is being made on the YouTube front. Should be able to start releasing regular videos in a few weeks. On the game module front, hit a minor snag (self-doubt, the writer's worst enemy... that and semi-colons), but am back on track for American Legends to be out on July 4.
Jeff here - So, in writing and creative news, I'm making good progress on the next episodes of Script Slayers. The format will be a bit different. Due to some scheduling issues, you'll just get to hear my soothing voice. Steph will still be involved in the writing.
June 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Jeff here - So, in writing and creative news, I'm making good progress on the next episodes of Script Slayers. The format will be a bit different. Due to some scheduling issues, you'll just get to hear my soothing voice. Steph will still be involved in the writing.
Jeff here - not a writing thing, but I am interested in AI and what it means to various aspects of our lives. And yes, that includes writing and art, things near and dear to me. But, this BBC piece is about the use of AI in therapy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9A-...
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I tried an AI therapist. Does it actually work? | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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June 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Jeff here - not a writing thing, but I am interested in AI and what it means to various aspects of our lives. And yes, that includes writing and art, things near and dear to me. But, this BBC piece is about the use of AI in therapy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9A-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9A-...
I love a good board game to play with friends and get away from all the screens. Recently played Settlers of Catan and crushed it!
June 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I love a good board game to play with friends and get away from all the screens. Recently played Settlers of Catan and crushed it!
Jeff here - got my new writing table set up on the balcony. I am happier about this than I have been about any table in the past 😄
My new tiny pop up writing table. While I don’t mind squatting, sometimes it’s pleasant to sit at a table like an actual adult. #writing
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jeff here - got my new writing table set up on the balcony. I am happier about this than I have been about any table in the past 😄
We’ve been rewriting some mediocre films in preparation for more Script Slayers YouTube videos. Just rewrote Uglies last night. It felt like this movie would have landed better if it came out in earlier 2000. Its themes of a society obsessed with looks and screens came about a decade too late.
June 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We’ve been rewriting some mediocre films in preparation for more Script Slayers YouTube videos. Just rewrote Uglies last night. It felt like this movie would have landed better if it came out in earlier 2000. Its themes of a society obsessed with looks and screens came about a decade too late.
Jeff here - Finally wrapped up the outline for my next novel. Should have been done about a month ago... but better late than never. Now, a little more research, a few mods to character arcs and a few decisions to make with world-building (I have some decisions to make about how magic works)... 1/2
June 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Jeff here - Finally wrapped up the outline for my next novel. Should have been done about a month ago... but better late than never. Now, a little more research, a few mods to character arcs and a few decisions to make with world-building (I have some decisions to make about how magic works)... 1/2