Carlos Santiago: Blog

Wonderful Readers,
I want to thank everyone for reading The Time of Zeus Book 5: the Coup. In case you missed it, there is a connection between Heir to Wolcott Manor and Tale of Olympus.
I try to be subtle, but since this is a blog, and not every reader peruses this thing, I might as well give a hint hint and a wink wink here to nudge readers to notice.
With that, I am done posting for the rest of 2025, I want to thank every reader who gave my stories a chance when so many other talented authors are writing and posting on here. It means more than you can know that you all browse my stories.
I plan to take a few weeks off for the holidays, and I should be back at it in January. There is some real life stuff I need to take care of, but I am looking forward to getting to my Fallout story as well as the first story in The Era of Man, which is tentatively named The Gift of Fire. I should warn you though that my first story of 2026 might be another Miscellaneous Myth, but I cannot be sure.
As of right now, I am fried, and I plan to enjoy a few weeks off.
Happy Holidays for everyone who celebrates, and to those who do not, I wish you a great year ahead in 2026.
As Always,
C.S.

Hey Everyone,
As this week is Thanksgiving in the States, I know people will be busy for this holiday. While I know some find this to be touchy, I will be respectful of the day and push Chapter 24: When Thunder Hesitates for The Coup to the Friday morning of the 28th.
I hope everyone has a great week and Happy Holidays for those who celebrate in the next month or so.
Also, after The Coup ends, I will be taking a break until the New Year, so I can have a good holiday and plan ahead for 2026.
Thank you (as always) for your support and ratings. Here's to a good 2025 and an amazing 2026.
As always,
C.S.

I did a quick update for Heir of Wolcott. If you enjoyed the story, the edit and expansion might be something you enjoy. Thank you everyone.
C.S.

P.S. My editor will give it a once over before next year. Have no fear

Endings are a bitch and a half for me. I want to keep going when the story is over, or I end up just stopping, so getting this to a nice end point was difficult to say the least.

I think I got there in the end. However, as you can see the story is not over, not by a long shot. We still have to deal with what is coming. We have the Horror under the house, very similar to the monsters under the bed that most children fear. There were the beings in the Prologue… and now, we have the infinite monster that was one of H.P. Lovercraft’s largest monsters: Yog Sothoth.

Who knows how all of this will turn out?

A lot of the facts in this story are true. A Wolcott and a Huntington signed the U.S.’s Declaration of Independence but obviously their families did not unleash hell in New England. Princess Sophia was a princess of Great Britain and did not have children as I understood her life. Obviously, the White House did burn down, and President Madison thought it was a great blow to our country, so I put on my conspiratorial cap and made up a fun reason for how funding was appropriated.

Beyond that, I thought why not take some of these real life facts and mess with them a little bit to make a compelling narrative.

From the scores, it says you guys liked it. IF you enjoyed this story, please give a rating and leave a comment. I should have a personally edited version of the story up by the end of the month, but I will be editing (with an editor friend of mine and one more rewrite by me) this story a lot before next year and will re-upload it before the sequel.

After which, I plan to have written and released the sequel: The Tragedy of Dreibruch (this is a working title and may change; sorry for that).

I think of some stories as just a book or serial. This one is closer to seasons of television, so this was more about establishing our heroes in Thomas and Silas. From the scores, it is clear that most of you guys like Thomas Wilson, which I am glad. He was a hard character to craft. My intention was to make someone with integrity without becoming a caricature. Silas was an interesting character as getting people to root for an aimless millionaire can be difficult.

Regardless of how things panned out, I am glad for all that enjoyed it, and I am sorry for those that did not.

Oh! And the Verbena is Vervaine, which I decided to co-opt from The Vampire Diaries. I could not help but pay homage to a franchise that did understand how to blend the magical with the vampiric.

As always, I genuinely want to thank you all for your support.

For more of my stories, give Tales of Olympus a chance if you enjoy mythological tellings.

If nothing else, here’s hoping to see you guys for the The Coup continuing next month or The Tragedy of Dreibuch or the Fallout FanFiction I said I might be posting sometime next year.

Thank you again; rate accordingly, and I look forward to the comments and to seeing everyone on the next story.

C.S.

Heir of Wolcott Manor has an end in sight. It is my greatest hope that you all have enjoyed the story. It has been a good time for me to write and read your guys' comments. Here's hoping I can land the ending that satisfies everyone.
The Coup should pick up in the first week of next month. The Era of Man begins early next year. I am also working on a fun Fallout fan fiction for some time of next year, but we will see. These suckers take a long time to write, edit, tweak, and feel good about. And truth be told, a dear confidante and friend left my life, and they helped make these stories much easier to write, so please bear with me if I take a while to write these.
Thank you all again.
As Always,
C.S.