Hello everyone,
The hazard of the kind of writing I do is that I need to be emotionally present and accessible to do it, otherwise the prose and narrative don't quite click. That's what happe...
2025-11-05 21:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough great was her exhaustion, rest eluded Saphienne as she lay within the cool sheets of her bed staring up at the colder, celestial hall...
2025-11-05 01:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
I'm getting ready to do a big edit pass of the existing chapters, and as I finish each one I'll be adding volume art to Royal Road. These aren't the future book covers, just a fun ...
2025-11-01 04:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Tell me again.”
Across from Saphienne in Celaena’s study, Faylar squared his shoulders. “If anyone specifically asks what I was doing w...
2025-10-31 23:48:12 +0000 UTC View PostRelations were not improved overnight. For the first few lessons after their confrontation with Almon, his three youngest students were wary, Saphienne ...
2025-10-29 21:13:33 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
Chapter 95 needs reworked. I thought the feedback I got from test readers would be easy to address and have sorted, but the deeper I went into it today, the more I realised I need ...
2025-10-29 00:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostSummer turned to autumn as so turned the leaves, and red spread through the hair of the elves who flourished in the Eastern Vale. True to her recollection f...
2025-10-25 23:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostNever before had the apprentices seen their master so elated as he was in his garden after Iolas cast his first spell. Almon laughed for joy, ...
2025-10-21 22:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Well... damn. The Patreon has hit $1k a month, which means I now owe +4 chapters to the read-ahead, for a total of +14 beyond the public release.
Rather than dr...
2025-10-19 20:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostNow all but initiated into the ancient ways, Saphienne reacted as she always did when she felt too much: she distracted herself with her intellect. She was ...
2025-10-19 20:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostMy Dearest Saphienne,
Sat under the maple tree in the upper terrace of the garden, Saphienne smiled through her blush as she read the ...
2025-10-16 17:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostAn age had passed for Saphienne since she last entered the library, and potent nostalgia made her pause on the threshold in recognition of what she had never...
2025-10-14 23:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re the one who shattered the tree…”
Having lived in anticipation of a reckoning with Almon for months, Saphienne listened fro...
2025-10-13 20:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I'm alive! High dose of doxycycline knocked me on my back for most of this week, but I'm nearly back to normal today (just tired — slept very poorly last night). I'm going t...
2025-10-10 00:21:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I'm really sorry to do this, but Chapter 89 is going to be late this week.
I've been increasingly unwell since Saturday, consequently working at a snail's pace. I'm phon...
2025-10-07 06:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Thou art mistaken child.” Celaena tried to pull away; the spirit possessing Taerelle tightened her grip. “Wormwood hath come.”
... 2025-10-03 19:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostCrying out attracted the attention of the patrons in the teahouse, and Alinar was quick to hurry over to Saphienne with a towel at the ready, utterly perplexed as he s...
2025-09-30 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
This is just a brief update to explain what I'm doing at the minute.
You'll have noticed that we unexpectedly blew past the $500 target for the Patreon, and we're ra...
2025-09-28 23:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Laelansa had set off for the Vale of the White River, Saphienne used the remainder of the day to study her sigil and attempt to deconstruct its meaning. Sh...
2025-09-26 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostPeriodically, I get suggestions from readers that the price of subscribing to the Patreon is too high, and that it ought to be lowered, or the Patreon should have another, cheaper tier added.
With her plan confirmed, there was nothing for Saphienne to do but wait for the right moment to make her move. That meant giving her adversaries time to re...
2025-09-23 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSitting with Laelansa in the expansive kitchen, still cradling Hyacinth within herself, Saphienne contemplated the next step in her plan, aware that there were sev...
2025-09-19 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThere was much to do before Saphienne began. Were she to succeed in what she intended, she first had to ready her arsenal — including her mind....
2025-09-18 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostA small mountain of gifts awaited Saphienne when she returned to the guest room, as did Laelansa, who perched barefoot and cross-legged on the b...
2025-09-17 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAllow me to paint for you a backdrop, before I stage the drama.
The summer solstice festival was a time of joyful unity for wood elves and s...
2025-09-16 12:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostOf course — it had to be Laewyn who found them on the floor.
When Saphienne sat up with Laelansa – her fury at herself...
2025-09-11 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostGathered in the long dining room for interrogation by Taerelle, Saphienne’s friends were unprepared for the intruder alarm to ring, and the instant she...
2025-09-09 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostA member of the Patreon comments:
The casual use of the word "fuck" by the elves is kind of off-putting. Does the word have the same multifaceted meaning for them as for modern En...
2025-09-08 07:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post
See Saphienne as she was becoming, the forthright young girl, fourteen years old. Her hair was once more brown as the earth, and she was still pale — though even these features had begun to lose ...
2025-09-05 08:57:52 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Saphienne could cast her first spell, she would have to fully comprehend what was required. Through having listened diligently and by reasoning through the ...
2025-09-04 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post