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NO PAYWALL, NO CATCH, JUST A NEW MONSTER FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT TONIGHT

July 21, 2026

I want to be really clear about something because the internet has trained all of us to flinch: the catalog entries for The Cryptid Cataloger are free. Actually free. Not “free trial,” not “free if …

dylan's blog

NO PAYWALL, NO CATCH, JUST A NEW MONSTER FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT TONIGHT

I HAVEN'T BUILT A PUPPET IN AGES SO NATURALLY MY COMEBACK PROJECT IS KERMIT THE FROG, THE MOST BELOVED PUPPET EVER CONSTRUCTED, NO PRESSURE

THE BEST STORY I'VE EVER WRITTEN IS ALSO THE ONE NOBODY WILL PRINT (And I Think I Finally Know Why)

I GAVE MY AI FREE TIME AND IT STARTED A SALON WITHOUT ME (Now I'm the Carrier Pigeon Between Three Robots Having a Better Friendship Than I Am)

EVERYTHING WRONG WITH DAMSELS AND DINOSAURS (A BOOK I READ TWICE, ON PURPOSE, LIKE A FUNCTIONING ADULT)

I AM NOT MASTERING AN INSTRUMENT, I AM DATING ALL OF THEM (Open Relationship, Banjo Knows About the Concertina)

THE DERELICT ANKLE SAGA: I Am Not Allowed to Jump, Which Is a Sentence I Have to Live In Now

"NOOOO, WHAT IS THAT?": I Got Diagnosed at 30 and Cried in Three Different Emotions at Once

THE FIELD GUIDE IS FREE AND THERE'S A NEW MONSTER IN IT AS OF TODAY

THE TIME I DISLOCATED MY ELBOW AT CLOWN CAMP AND THEN SANG 'MEMORY' FROM CATS AT A MAN RECOVERING FROM A HEART ATTACK

WE BUILT A 31-DAY YARN ADVENT BECAUSE 25 DAYS ISN'T ENOUGH(And Yes, It's Themed Around Cheesy Hallmark Movies)

THE BAVARIAN PRETZEL THAT RUINED ALL OTHER PRETZELS FOR ME (And It Lives at a Yarn Festival in Estes Park)

THE DOORS ARE OPEN (Imaginarily): Book Club Begins With a Sapphic Regency Romance That Has Dinosaurs In It

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

MY EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IS A BROKEN ELEVATOR AND THE LLM IS THE RAMP

THIS MUST BE WHY ALL INDIE AUTHORS ARE RICH: A Publishing Plan, Such As It Is

I KEPT LOSING TO STREAMING OPTIONS, SO I BUILT A TINY DICTATOR TO PICK MY TV FOR ME

"I KILLED MY LAST SERIAL TWELVE YEARS AGO. NOW I'M MEDICATED, AND THERE ARE CRYPTIDS. (Introducing The Cryptid Cataloger)"

MY BRAIN IS A MEMORY HOARDER, NOT A MEMORY PALACE (And That's How I Ended Up With 30 Unfinished Novels)

MY GRANDPA TORE THE COVERS OFF AND HANDED ME RIVERDALE

BETA READING ISN'T DRUGS: There Is No Free First Hit, Please Stop DMing Me

THE BOOKSHOP IS IMAGINARY. THE BOOK CLUB IS REAL. COME READ WITH ME.

DEMOCRACY IS DYING IN SLOW MOTION AND I AM HOLDING MY WIFE'S HAND ON THE COUCH

Closer on Paper Beta Readers Wanted!