To bear a soul is to live life intensely, profoundly. Your every choice is felt one-hundredfold - your minor successes are celebrations, your errors become calamitous. It is this that p...
2021-05-22 16:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It is seductively pleasant to deride Saf as a nation of fools, rife with raving demagogues and mad priests - but remember that they had been winning their war on the continent until we int...
2021-05-19 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, we're getting to the point where things are piling up, I'm introducing a lot of bad Latin and we're growing beyond a small core of introductory characters. I'm going to be maintaining a d...
2021-05-12 16:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Men of a certain age have a particular set of behaviors in common - a reaction to sudden lights and noises, an anxiety that manifests in quiet moments, bouts of anger and passion wholly unsuited fo...
2021-05-12 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Modern animetry has given us the notion of the Eight as if there is some fundamental division that defines them, but that is not the case. Certain souls have been tracked throughout history, ...
2021-05-05 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It is tempting to frame history as a narrative about the clashes between souls, but this is almost never the case - one may as well contend that swords were the salient factor rather than their wie...
2021-04-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Many model the law as a set of rules, learning it by asking what the law is. Still others frame it by jurisdiction and pose the question of where, or as an item of executive authority while p...
2021-04-21 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It is theorized that there is a rough limit on the number of people one can hold a relationship with, be it friend, neighbor, lover or enemy. It is perhaps one-hundred-fifty on average, two-h...
2021-04-14 19:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Stellar shines through winter’s cloak, 2021-04-07 18:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, intro post before the chapter! I did end up revising a few things, mostly descriptions and parts of the carriage ride over. The scene at the institute is more or less as it was in t...
2021-04-07 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeems like the month flew right on by. Hopefully all the books sent domestically have made their way to their new owners by now, and if you haven't yet provided your address please feel free ...
2021-03-31 22:41:18 +0000 UTC View PostI have packages stuffed and ready to go for everyone who has provided me their addresses so far! Later than I had hoped, but things kinda stacked up over the last few days (I got vaccinated, ...
2021-03-24 18:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi, lots of stuff going on today! I got the books a day before I expected, which is great - but my package of mailers didn't arrive early so I'll still be getting those tomorrow while I gaze ...
2021-03-17 19:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostHello, happy Wednesday! I've been writing and fiddling around with story stuff for Peculiar Soul, those of you who hang out in the Discord might have seen me toss a few things up. In pa...
2021-03-10 15:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The print manuscript is ready, finally! I got the proof copy on Monday and I now have a slightly tweaked version live on Amazon:
Hello, everyone! Short post today, as I've only got a few updates to share. First, the manuscript is nearly done - I got all of the formatting issues worked out and am giving i...
2021-02-25 02:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Short update today, it's been a busy week and I've been plugging away at the manuscript as best I can in the gaps. It's looking like my estimates of having it all bundled off to Amazon by tod...
2021-02-18 03:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I had this slated as a week to focus on my (actual, more boring) work, but that doesn't mean I've been able to leave the Inheritors manuscript entirely alone! I've begun the long, pa...
2021-02-10 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In the end this is only one of many books o
2021-02-03 17:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
(TL;DR - Chapter delayed due to being really long and my work ramping up. Schedule notes and patron benefits described in the second half of the post.)
Hi folks! I hate to do this...
2021-01-27 15:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The proficient guard against the foe’s blade, masters against the stray pebble underfoot.
- Aesvain saying.
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Fire was apparently going to be a theme today. ...
2021-01-20 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Fire and knives are for food, if there’s food.
- Sjocelym saying.
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The elevator slid to a halt at the bottom of its shaft, and the doors hissed open to reve...
2021-01-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“And then there are those who attach some broad meaning to the phenomenon of asaarimyn. Yes, they are tools of the vinesavaim, but they do not speak for them. There is nothing env...
2021-01-06 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
hope you and the children are well - I’m sure they’re large now, and by the time the caravan reaches you with this letter they’ll be larger still. Here things are not so good - the ...
2020-12-30 17:14:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a conversation with a young man today - Vumo Ras, one of the court’s scholars of ruudun. We had the opportunity to talk at length, and though he is young and overly deferential I ...
2020-12-23 17:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“I suppose if I have any advice for writers of history it would be to emphasize the uncertainty. In a book like this it all hopefully appears very clear and organized, but in the moment...
2020-12-16 17:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post
By the time a Sjocelym finishes saying hello he’ll have told you three times how much he loves their scriptsmiths - part because he’s glad the toys they make don’t explode, and part becau...
2020-12-09 16:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
“In many ways it could be said that Tinem Sjocel did not exist until Goresje dragged it forth. The country of my birth was a nation of insular savages, snarling over scraps and preoccup...
2020-12-02 17:04:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I took the old defenses down from around the outpost this morning. Grandfather was against it, as we knew he would be, but even he had to admit that we hadn’t had visitors - friendly or...
2020-11-25 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A man leaves his house but does not take his knife. His wife chides him, saying that it is late and he should be cautious, but the man dismisses her concerns and proceeds unarmed. S...
2020-11-18 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post