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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current

@authormikedc.bsky.social
7.3K followers 4.2K following 15K posts

#Author of "Three Cheers for NPC Revenge" Bard of Aztaeron book 1 📚 WIP Book 2, "From Under the Cursed Tree" Long live the car crash hearts. 🖤 Just an autistic geek who loves guitars, music, and videogames. Married, no DM unless it's a book deal.

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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What's behind this chained door at the Boston Public Library?
Door locked with a chain
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I see you, Boston Public Library
Bookcase game in point
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Inside you there are 2 wolves" my 2 wolves:
A saint? A goth. Some dude in a t shirt looking mad mad. A monk. A Smurf. A princess.
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My ppl r here
"Leave me alone I'm emo"
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Still riding high on seeing The Black Parade in Detroit Friday 🖤 And rumors all over the place the concert was being recorded for either a documentary or concert film 🤩
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Always sunny in Philadelphia
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Seriously one of the best concerts I've ever been to 🖤 🤘
MCR Detroit
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Someone here has an "elder emo" t shirt and they can't be more than 30, I'm officially offended
MCR concert
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Spent last night getting ready for The Black Parade 8.21.2026 🖤
Me in a hair dying cap
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mine is a trucker hat or a trapper hat, but this tracks
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last night, I fought the Foo
FF concert 
Dave Grohl
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THREE CHEERS FOR NPC REVENGE When a cynical punk barista is dragged into a cursed video‑game kingdom, he and his accidental adventuring party must save the world from a Dragon King—if he can survive the final boss battle inside his own chest. #Q #SFF #R #NA #QuestPit
Title, 108k wordsTarget audience millennial nostalgia, former scene kids, fans of video games

CompsPitchTropes: found family, wise female mentor, friends to lovers, neurodiversity, nerdy culture references
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good morning from Tatooine
The sun behind 276 AQU haze
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
July 4 is tomorrow. I will continue to celebrate my founding fathers 🖤
Fall Out Boy
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Innit?!?
Pimms
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🎶 The truth Is you could slit my throat And with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize For bleeding on your shirt 🎶
Julie Andrew's singing to children in The Sound of Music
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There is no wrong way to read a book except for this.
Person saying they skip everything but dialogue
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New article series: how did 9/11 kill swing music? How did we get from punk to ska to swing to emo?
How Gen X and older millennials vibe shifted from punk to ska
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
PSA, Google Ads trying to force some new auto-opt-in bull 💩 opt out if you don't want MORE of your data shared
Google ad bs
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Found this graffiti downtown yesterday 🔥
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Little interview about my book that I'm currently querying
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🦖 🦕
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Share a blatant bit of product placement in a movie or TV show 🖤
TMNT 1990 Dominos Pizza
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Stop and smell the 🌹 🖤
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Checked out All Shook Up in Vegas last night. 5/5!
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Death Valley! 🏜️ 🤩 🤯
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Meteors in muh city. 🤷‍♂️
Cleveland weather: Sunday 75 and sunny, Monday 30 and snowy, Tuesday, high of 15 and meteor showers...
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pi day, I did a thing
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Do something impulsive this weekend why don't ya? Starting with subscribing to my channel of authorly shorts on YouTube! @author_mikedc
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Them: what's your book about? Me: guhhhhhh... youtube.com/@author_mike...
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Happy Thursday, folks
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Now #querying
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Cooking again Dunno why, but this crazy cold winter made me a baker!
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Book 2 is in the books! 📚 What am I up to next? 🤔 #BookSky 📚 #authorlife #writingcommunity
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
After THREE CHEERS FOR NPC REVENGE comes FROM UNDER A CURSED TREE They fell in love last Harvest. It seems like nothing can stand in Josh and Zelda's way... ...except Death. Death is standing in their way. #WIP #SFF #Querying #R #NA #Hopepunk
Promo poster
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An #AgentsGuide to THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE, the commercial, upmarket, adaptation-ready intro to the Bard of Aztaeron cycle. #QuestPit #Q #SFF #R #NA
Three Cheers for NPC Revenge 108k wordsPitch - Freshly kicked out of his band, punk barista Josh Keller crash‑lands in a cursed video game world ruled by an authoritarian Dragon King. Armed with two misfit coworkers, a long-lost princess, and a heart he swears he doesn’t have, he’s only got one shot to save a doomed realm. 
Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is the real boss fight.
Comparisons
  Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Princess Bride by William Goldman
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher
Tropes - Found family
Dysfunctional relationships
Friends to Lovers
Neurodiversity
Love at first sight
Wise female mentor
More 90s and 2000s music references than an MTV documentary
Nerdy culture references
Fantasy taverns
Subverted/refuted chosen one
Heroic last stand
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A punk barista and a long-lost princess have 30 days to save a video game world that's been cursed by an authoritarian Dragon King, and sugar, they're going down swinging. 🤘🎸🖤 SWORD ART ONLINE x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL x @VansWarpedTour x PRINCESS BRIDE #QuestPit #Q #SFF #R
Mood board: guitar, graffiti, cobbled stones, mountains, tall trees, a sign saying you are worthy of loveTitle: Three Cheers for NPC Revenge
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What's your sign?
X Ray of my brain

ADHD Pinkie
Autism The Brain
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ok, true; but I am on the CUSP of finishing book 2! Finished the action climax yesterday. Now only emotional climax and denouement 🥰 🖤
A list of books I've finished writing, person squinting
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Created a new pitch specifically for #smallpit but I think it's kinda fire 🔥 Gonna use this one going forward
Three Cheers for NPC Revenge
 Fresh off being kicked out of his band, punk barista Josh Keller crash‑lands in a cursed video‑game world ruled by an authoritarian Dragon King. Armed with three misfit coworkers, a poetic prophecy, and a heart he swears he doesn’t have, he’s only got one shot to save a doomed realm. Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is the real boss fight.
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Ministry of Time 60s review by @authormikedc
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
👋 I'm new at this so be kind 🖤 #BookLovers #booktok #WriterCommunity
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
Marvel fans think they've cracked the code to hidden messages in Avengers trailer
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Perhaps this will be a collector's item one day? A single printing of my debut novel before I changed the title to THREE CHEERS FOR NPC REVENGE. Hoping I made the right call? Titles are so weird lol.
Previous title: NPC: The Bard of Aztaeron
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Most kids aren't reading books today Maybe they just need a good incentive 🍕 📚
Pizza Hut Book It
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Board game night! Dead Reckoning 🏴‍☠️
Board game and whiskey
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
First colonoscopy in the books, my people Two small polyps that look benign. Just a friendly reminder to hit that shiz as soon as you hit my fragile age 🖤 As eldest millennial, it is my duty.
Moi
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Mushroom coffee has been a delight. Not replacing my 4-5 cups a day, but it's a nice mid-morning treat Next up: Mushroom cocoa
Mushroom cocoa
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Thanks everyone 🙏 Tyson is home again, got fluids and some daily medicine to stimulate his appetite
My fav cat ever
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Author Mike "ElectricDC" Current @authormikedc.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
AI can't even tell when to properly use "its" over "it's"
Headline "AI can now predict crime before it happens"
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