My Cozy Sci-Fi Comedy series: Intergalactizen’s Guide to Taming Earthlings
(Season 1 is complete. 🎉 Season 2: Now live!)
List of episodes for I.G.T.T.E.
(or as others call it "Planetary Domination Made Easy")
(Updated on an ongoing basis, new episodes on 2 Fridays per month)
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Season 1
Episode 1: Meet Jerry, who will likely never sleep again. 😂
Episode 2: Meet the pursuer whose home was wrecked, Ever-Ready Freddie.
Episode 3: Meet the “book” that Declan thinks can help un-fuck his marriage.
Episode 4: Welcome to the “shortcut” quest for the stick that “makes your spouse believe everything you say.”
Episode 5: When the Quest just made everything worse…
Episode 6: Meet Shanta, wife of Declan with some powerful spy 🪄
Episode 7: Shanta returns & faces off with the murderous Ever-Ready Freddie
Episode 8: Meet Jerry’s stalker who’s been watching from the roof: Ferdinand.
(Season 1 FINALE) Episode 9: Jerry finally starts losing his mind & finds a hole in his reality.
Season 2
Episode 1: The world behind the A.T.T.I.C. door opens…
Episode 2: Lost under the wrong bed
Episode 3: Say hello to the dragon with the craziest backstory
Episode 4: When the closet's not actually empty...
Episode 5: Attack of fur
Episode 6: When Jerry taps into his inner “Super freak”
Episode 7: Jerry learns about the 3 levels of the W.I.T.C.H. society
Episode 8: Introducing the W.I.T.C.H. hat interface
Episode 9: First spell of a new W.I.T.C.H. to create a little dragon slayer
This new Substack section is my short story series, which will likely become an anthology in book form (further plans on which format in will be in and how it will be made available are to be released sometime by the second half of 2025).
What is it?
I like to think of it as what would happen if I took notes while Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett decided to write a story together during their time locked up together in something like a space station with only their cats for company.
I’ve been writing short comedy stories on the side in addition to my novels for several years now. I recently realized in the last month that all of them are set in the same alternate universe. After I already spent some time getting great feedback on these tales and revising them for publication separately, I’ve now decided that I’d rather have them all published consistently on the same platform. In this series of episodes, you will discover worlds within worlds.
**Note: This is an entirely human-generated story, written by me, myself, and possibly by the influence of the cats in my life.
When and how often is it coming out?
Episode 1 launched on Friday, July 12.
The first post is completely free to read for everyone, and you’re all welcome to please share it!
After that, new episodes will come out for paid subscribers on three Fridays of each month, with one Friday monthly as my brainstorming time and reflection post time in the Novelist Uncensored section of this Substack.
Paid subscribers get all of the new installments of this Sci-Fi Comedy series, plus full access to all of my insider tips on novel revisions, plus the monthly 3-book battles in which I review books (according to what you vote for.)
Free subscribers to my Substack will get the occasional “first episode” posts of this story whenever it moves into a new part, “season,” or major subplot, plus all the fun of my monthly 3-book battles in which I review books (according to what you vote for.)
Why am I launching on July 12th?
July 12th is in fact, an incredibly important day because that was the day of ultimate victory for Douglas Adams, the day when his biggest dream came true at age 25.
In the book titled “42” that has much of Douglas Adams’ old diary entries, he wrote:
July 12, 1977:
“They loved The Pirate Planet…and suggested the…should be a film. Loved H.H.G. One of the best days of my life. I shall be released… Phone John Cleese.” – a touching reference to wanting to let his comic hero, who he had met, know of his good fortune.
Quote from this article in The Mirror:
Kevin recalls how his friend was living in a London flatshare at the time, saying: “That was the day they were reading the Doctor Who script he’d written and they loved it. At the same time he heard that the programme review board at the BBC Radio had also approved Hitchhiker’s. Douglas had almost given up on everything and nearly took a job for P&O in Hong Kong as a shipping clerk to get a proper job. So I guess it was the beginning of everything.”
Douglas Adams wrote the funniest books I have ever read, and I’m thrilled that his work was recognized before he gave up on his dream. He has inspired me so much that it’s only fitting that I should dedicate my launch as a tribute to him as well.
(In case by some small chance you aren’t familiar with his work, then please go read this review I wrote on “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” to get a taste of it.)
For all of you who are Douglas Adams’ fans, there are some Easter eggs you’ll recognize in my series that are nods to his work in HHGTTG, so stay tuned. 😉
I’ve also tucked some Easter eggs in here that are slight nods to Good Omens.
**For anyone unfamiliar with Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, I urgently suggest you go and read “Good Omens,” the best comic fantasy novel of all time (which I wrote about here on GoodReads).
Disclaimer: I will always be a fan of Good Omens. That book and TV series on Amazon Prime are the product of the combined work of hundreds of people at this point, plus a huge international fandom. “Good Omens” is a piece of art that represents something far greater than any one person who helped write it.