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I'm wrapping up my revisions on volume three of Faerie Knight, so that I can give the manuscript to Tantor and the last audiobook of the series can be recorded.
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Guild Mage 88
Chapter 88: Rosamund Lowry
Liv fell to her knees, cradling her broken arm against her chest. Her elbow felt at once unnaturally loose, and in agonizing pain. At a glance, her arm ...
2025-01-31 20:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostFaerie Knight 148
148 - A Subtle Dance
A child who suffers cruelty will grow into an adult who inflicts it.
Pārsan proverb
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Guild Mage 87
Chapter 87: Blunted Blades
In the end, Liv only picked at her food.
A combination of nerves, and, though she didn’t want to say it out loud, the fact that the food simply wasn’t ver...
2025-01-30 20:13:16 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 86
Chapter 86: Examinations
Liv jolted awake to the ringing of a great bell, far closer at hand than she was used to from living in Whitehill. While the temple bells had been audible from ...
2025-01-29 20:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 85
Chapter 85: The Cedar Closet
As soon as she’d grabbed a few slices of bread and cheese from the servants’ mess at the back of High Hall, Wren headed out. There were just too many pe...
2025-01-28 20:15:23 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 84
Chapter 84: High Hall
“Wren,” Liv said, “put the knife down, please.”
The huntress’ gaze remained cold, and all around them students had stopped their comings and goings, thei...
2025-01-27 21:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 83
Chapter 83: Coral Bay
Liv came back to herself kneeling on a wide circle of white stone, her fingers just brushing the surface of an unfamiliar sigil. Arriving on a waystone never becam...
2025-01-26 15:17:46 +0000 UTC View Post
CritRPG Podcast Interview
You might be interested to listen to Max and I talk about all sorts of stuff, including Guild Mage, on the CritRPG podcast!
2025-01-25 23:37:02 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 82
Chapter 82: A Wedding
Liv had entirely forgotten that Triss had brought her fabric for a new dress, with blue trim to match the gown the bride would wear to the ceremony. The dressmaker...
2025-01-25 15:26:31 +0000 UTC View PostFaerie Knight 147
147 - Eayn Zarqa'
The tribes of the Provincia Iberia are a people both hardy and strange. I have encountered the raiders of the Maghreb at the southern passes, bringing their goods ...
2025-01-25 13:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 81
Chapter 81: The Turncloak
Two of the castle guards stood at attention outside the door to the rooms where Wren had been placed. “Master Grenfell hasn’t arrived yet, m’lady,” one...
2025-01-24 20:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 80
Chapter 80: Scars
By the time the culling team had returned to Whitehill, the laughter had faded, replaced with a deep exhaustion. When Liv wasn’t clutching the reins tightly to keep ...
2025-01-23 20:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 79
Chapter 79: Aluthos’o’Ea
At the beginning, Liv hadn’t even noticed the mana poisoning.
The rush of power from drawing on the chaotic energy of the rift had been enough...
2025-01-22 20:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostFaerie Knight 146
146 - The Battle of Basilea IV: The Serpent in the Snow
We have never been able to confirm to my satisfaction the veracity of certain reports that more powerful daemons might be able to a...
2025-01-22 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 78
Chapter 78: The Cascades
Wren winged out of the crevasse, struggling to keep herself aloft and moving in the right direction. Shifting between human and bat forms didn’t help her to h...
2025-01-21 20:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 77
Chapter 77: Ice Beneath the Mountain
Liv built her intent off the same mental images she’d used during her duel on the beach - except that instead of creating one rose, she made six. ...
2025-01-20 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 76
Chapter 76: Water Under Rock
Liv shaped the bottom of the chute to curve up into a bit of a bowl, so that the end of her slide down into darkness was not a wild, uncontrolled and bone-breakin...
2025-01-19 18:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 75
Chapter 75: Into the Abyss
Liv couldn’t remember the last time she’d wished for a big, muscular man or two. She’d done her best to make peace with the idea that she’d never be o...
2025-01-18 17:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostFaerie Knight 145
145 - The Battle of Basilea III: Where is a Lie
When a man knows that he’s about to die, that’s when you see who he truly is.
The Life and Times of Legionary Ti...
2025-01-18 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Guild Mage 74
Chapter 74: Bald Peak Mine
For all the years that she’d made her home in Whitehill, Liv had never actually seen the entrance to the mines up close. Apart from the miners themselves, a...
2025-01-17 20:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 73
Chapter 73: Defense in Depth
Lady Julianne had called Sophie into her sitting room to sign as a witness, and when Liv left to go prepare, the lady’s maid followed her into the hall. &n...
2025-01-16 15:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostThree Queens
I originally wrote this with the idea that it would be given to people who signed up for a mailing list, but I really haven't found the mailing list to be nearly as effective as Patreon.
As a...
2025-01-16 01:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 72
Chapter 72: The Ravages of Time
The Sign of the Terrapin hadn’t changed much in the twelve years since the night that Liv and Matthew had fought off a group of drunks there. Without M...
2025-01-15 14:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostFaerie Knight 144
144 - The Battle of Basilea II: Blood and Scales
It is either arrogance or desperation, for a mortal to face a daemon - such a battle is the province of Exarchs or Angelus alone.
... 2025-01-15 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 71
Chapter 71: Savalent
“But I don’t understand why it has to always be you,” Rika insisted. “You’ve spent twenty years running all across the north. Just once, let Sohvis ...
2025-01-14 14:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 70
If the western mountains had ever had names, Wren didn’t know them. The goddess hadn’t bothered to share, though she clearly had a destination in mind. These peaks were both more st...
2025-01-13 20:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 69
Chapter 69: Dā
“For what it’s worth, I’ve imprinted the word also,” Valtteri admitted. “But I wanted you to focus on mastering Cel before you go off to Coral Bay. No di...
2025-01-12 12:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostGuild Mage 68
Chapter 68: Kelthelis
Liv and her father paused to clothe themselves for the cold before activating the waystone. For her, that meant donning leather gloves and a heavy wool cloak, both...
2025-01-11 13:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post