Plum Parrot
aka
MC Gallup
Fantastic Worlds, Living Characters, Timeless Stories
A Note About AI in Writing:
AI is becoming hard to avoid; it’s being added to all of our apps and websites. It’s in our phones, it summarizes our searches, and it even interprets reviews on Amazon. Maybe it’s unavoidable, and maybe there will come a time when everyone uses it to some degree, but…
While I love to write about AI, I don’t write with AI. None of my books use generative AI; all of my books are written by me, with a keyboard. I type every chapter with ideas fresh out of my own human brain.
If you think I write quickly, well, I do. I post web serials, and I complete a chapter almost every single day of the year. Even on my “days off.” My web serials become my books. If you’d like to follow along as those stories take shape and witness the mistakes and rewrites I go through, I’d love to invite you to join my Patreon! :)
PS: This goes for the art on my books, too. If I’m making money from a story, then I’m paying a human artist for the cover art.
Early Neon Dust art by a very talented human, Hugo Abeis Ruiz Toranzo https://www.instagram.com/hartcomic/
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Victor of Tucson
LitRPG/Progression Fantasy
Victor can’t wait to get the hell out of high school, go to the local community college on a sports scholarship, and start his own life. But that’s all put on hold when he enters his abuela’s house and somehow ends up stepping into a world unlike anything he’s ever known, filled with fantastical meta-humans; walking, talking devils; and other creatures one usually needs some serious pharmaceuticals to see.
Fanwath is no dream, though. In fact, it’s a nightmare. Sold into slavery as a pit fighter, Victor quickly learns his new home is controlled by the “System” and the only way to get ahead is to fight, kill, and collect the precious “Energy” that means the difference between a long life and an early grave. And according to his stats, Victor’s starting out at a solid zero.
Lucky for him, no one in this world has ever met his kind before—which means they have no idea what he’s really capable of. But they’re about to find out . . .
10 Books Out!
Next Release - October 6
Andy in the Apocalypse
A LitRPG Adventure
Andy wanted a quiet life—just his trailer, the Sonoran desert, and a job that didn’t ask much of him. Instead, he got a front-row seat to Tucson’s collapse. Magic rewrote the rules. Monsters stalked the streets. People mutated—or died.
He didn’t plan to be a hero. But when the screaming started, Andy grabbed a broken broomstick and did what he does best: survive.
Now he’s got more than his own skin to worry about—kids looking to him for protection, neighbors turning to him for leadership, and a trailer park slowly transforming into a fortress. The System’s leveling him up—but not fast enough.
Because the countdown’s ticking, the invasions are coming, and if Andy fails, everyone he’s begun to care about will be slaughtered.
2 Books Out! Next Release - Nov 3
Cyber Dreams
Cyberpunk Dystopia LitRPG-lite
Enter a frighteningly familiar dystopian world with the first book of a new series from the author of Falling with Folded Wings and Victor of Tucson.
In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going.
Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn’t have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she’s going to need it . . .
When Juliet stumbles upon what looks like a botched kidnapping, the victim dispatches his abductors and lives just long enough to give her a stolen AI chip. This gift soon transforms Juliet from a worker bee into a killer queen. Armed with far more power and skill than she can comprehend—let alone control—she finds herself drawn into a shadowy world where survival itself counts as victory.
Juliet has never been one to push people around. But when it comes to fighting the corrupt corporate overlords, she’s more than happy to push back.
6 Book Series - Complete!
Falling With Folded Wings
LitRPG/Progression Fantasy
Stranded on a hostile planet, one man finds himself thrust into a fight for survival that could decide the fate of an entire world . . .
As an engineer on the arkship Pilgrim-9, bound for the Tau Ceti solar system, Morgan Hall thought his life would revolve around maintaining and repairing the ship and supporting the needs of the five thousand colonists aboard. But when he’s roused early from a 240-year stasis, he’s confronted with chaos.
Along with his shipmates, Morgan is brought down to a planet teeming with peril. Forced to fight for their survival without any of their tech to hand, they must adapt quickly to overcome countless threats in a world where magic is as real as science. Eventually, they begin to create a new existence for themselves.
But just as they’re beginning to feel at home, Morgan and his fellow humans discover the planet is already inhabited by intelligent life-forms—and this native species is cunning, powerful, and all too lethal . . .
Trilogy Complete!
Vainglory
Progression Fantasy
Dive into an adventure where the line between hero and villain blurs, and the cost of survival may be more than you bargain for.
In the rain-soaked streets of Seattle, Ward Dyer, a seasoned Port Authority detective, finds himself entangled in a case that defies reality. His latest stakeout on a suspected kidnapper leads him to the eerie, forgotten tunnels of the Seattle underground—a place where shadows whisper and danger lurks.
In a heart-stopping encounter, Ward disrupts a human sacrifice, but the victory leaves him gravely wounded and teetering on the brink of death. He’s approached by a mysterious young woman with an offer he can’t refuse. In exchange for a cryptic price, she saves him—sending him to Vainglory, a system of worlds where magic intertwines with the unknown and mysteries unravel in the darkest corners.
Now, with a devilish presence haunting his thoughts, Ward embarks on the Vainglory Challenges—a perilous quest for power, riches, and the elusive secrets that may hold the key to his salvation—or his undoing.
Trilogy Complete!
Neon Dust
Progression Cyberpunk
In 22nd-century New York, survival is a hustle, and secrets refuse to stay buried.
Tony, once a corporate operative, knows betrayal firsthand—abandoned by the elites who molded him, he’s been exiled to the Blast, a low-income, no-exit wasteland in the heart of New Brooklyn. Now, he scrapes by in a world of gang-controlled streets and Dust-fueled powers, finding reluctant allies among the outcasts he once scorned. Amid the despair, Tony starts to uncover a surprising strength—and a chance to feel something more than just survival.
Addie, a fiercely independent journo, is determined to expose the district’s corruption and the ruthless toll it takes on its people. But as she digs deeper, her quest for justice drags her into the city’s darkest shadows—and into the grip of Dust. What starts as a mission to expose the underworld soon spirals into a harrowing journey of self-discovery, where even truth itself becomes suspect.
Together, Tony and Addie are an unlikely team in a world where loyalty is rare, and survival comes at a price. But if they can trust each other, they might just be able to challenge the forces that keep the Blast under heel—and maybe find redemption in the ruins.
2 Books Out! Next Release - Jan 12
Aura Overload
LitRPG/Progression Sci-fi
In a crumbling empire ruled by cybernetic immortals, royal bodyguard Hector Finalis was betrayed, branded a traitor, and left for dead. Two centuries later, his lost neurodeck resurfaces in a scavenger haul, and he awakens in a fragile new body, a relic haunted by fractured memories and a blood oath most in this decayed age have forgotten.
To survive, Hector must rebuild his aura system from nothing, forcing potentia through a process that can forge flesh, sharpen the mind… or shatter the unworthy. One overload could rip his unenhanced "skin" apart.
Bound to criminals and unexpected allies, Hector must claw his way back to power as he uncovers the truth behind his fall, all while struggling to master a rage that could destroy him unless he finds something worth living for.
The empire erased his name and rewrote his legacy.
Hector will carve it back in blood.
How far will he go to unearth the truth—and bury the guilty?
Book 1 Coming June, 2027
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About the author:
Plum Parrot is the pen name of author MC Gallup, who grew up in Southern Arizona and spent much of his youth wandering around the Sonoran Desert, hunting imaginary monsters and building forts. He studied creative writing at the University of Arizona and, for a number of years, attempted to teach middle schoolers to love literature and write their own stories. If he's not out walking his Airedale Terrier, you can find Gallup writing, reading his favorite authors, or playing D&D with friends and family.