Maldric

Contact

Getting hold of me

Maldric is built and run by Intrepid Developer — that is Chris Vanderplank, working from the United Kingdom. I write fiction as well as software, which is why this desk exists at all.

Email

chris@intrepid-developer.com reaches me directly.

Use it for waitlist questions, privacy requests, or anything the FAQ does not already cover. Since it is only me, expect a reply from a person and not from a ticketing system, but give me a day or two.

During the closed beta, your feedback helps me decide what to improve next. You can also send feedback from inside the writing desk.

Requesting a beta invitation

Join the beta waitlist and I will email you when a place is available. Invitations go out in small batches. Joining requests an invite; it does not create an account or start a subscription.

Who else touches your data

Hosting is Railway in an EU region (privacy), where your manuscripts are stored. Payments on the signed-in desk go through Stripe (privacy); the waitlist is free. Transactional mail (waitlist confirmation, desk activation, password reset, ARC invite, send-to-Kindle) goes through AhaSend, also in the EU (privacy) — not a mailing list. Errors and traces from the desk and API go to Sentry (EU ingest) (privacy) so I can fix crashes — not manuscripts. The optional notes and review passes use Grok, from SpaceXAI (privacy), and a suggested chapter edit is never auto-applied. Optional AI processing is separate from manuscript storage; the hosting region does not describe every processor’s handling of data. The full detail is in the privacy policy.