I'm not super consistent with these posts, as many of you know. But here it is, a 2023 Year in Review Post.
Let's do a quick update on what I actually wrote this year and what it looks like c...
2024-01-03 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLate at night, and the hunting parties had returned. They had never managed to even come close to the settlement, still multiple li away even at their furthest point of search. To some extent, the ...
2024-01-02 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting did not begin immediately. To Wu Ying's private amusement, after the deep posturing of bringing multiple large and expensive flying vehicles to the negotiation, by unspoken agreement ea...
2023-12-29 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt took them just over two days to arrive at their destination, slowing on the second day to deal when the cultivators of the State of Wei had arrived, having gone ahead on spirit horses and flying...
2023-12-26 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe pair of spirit instruments broke away from the Third Grand Palace of the Wei the next morning. Not without another half-day of pomp and ceremony, one filled with musical instruments playe...
2023-12-22 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe cultivators and politicans of the Kingdom of Shen gathered. Elders of the Verdant Green Waters sect and Yang Mu, the princes and generals all in the inner sanctum of the kingdom's flying pagoda...
2023-12-19 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post**Author Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!*<...
2023-12-15 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring the cover reveal for Fool's Bond, book 2 of System Apocalypse: Kismet series co-authored with David R. Packer.
Blurb for 2023-12-14 18:00:47 +0000 UTC
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Last week, I pulled some information on backlist sales and the like. And realised, while I was doing that, there was a bunch of information that people might like. Of course, there was also a ton o...
2023-12-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe duelling grounds were expansive, warded and protected against even the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator if necessary. Yet, only the more basic of protections were activated, glowing format...
2023-12-12 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is going to be a short update since I've already done one a few weeks ago and then there'll be a larger update for the end of the year where I'll go into a bunch of thoughts. So this is just a...
2023-12-08 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt took three days for the fallout of the attack to sort itself out. It only took three days because the entire mission was under significant time pressure, and so matters like precedence, security...
2023-12-08 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostRecently did a post about what I've written or published, just because I have wanted this data for a bit and hadn't a chance to grab it all. Finally did, and this was what I came up with.
But...
2023-12-06 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was nearly as good as a successful assassination? A failed one. At least, when it came to disrupting the careful protocols and procedures that had been developed over the course of months for ...
2023-12-05 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn the third day of flight, the pair of spiritual instruments finally arrived at the meeting point arranged by the officials. The pair of flying contraptions had slowed their passage through the se...
2023-12-01 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFigured I'd talk about something I've noticed, which is the creation of new apps and websites, the first mover advantage and the difficulty in making people change habits and actions, due to the in...
2023-11-29 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOnce could not have a diplomatic envoy without the actual government. Though their presence was uneeded and superflous in some ways, with the cultivators bearing the greatest degree of martial stre...
2023-11-28 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPassage on the floating pagoda was more convenient, though after the first few hours, significantly more boring and slower. At least, for the wind cultivator. Then again, Wu Ying knew that not all ...
2023-11-24 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, so some tasks about building up a publishing business. This is mostly useful as you grow larger - or just find that you can't handle some tasks and are earning enough, or could earn enough...
2023-11-22 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFor all the urgency of the initial request, final preparations for their trip to the State of Wei took longer than Wu Ying had expected. Negotiations had to be conducted for the safe passage of the...
2023-11-21 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this gripping continuation of the saga, we reunite with Wu Ying, who returns to the Verdant Green Waters sect after a decade of exile. Faced with jealous rivals, ancient wounds, and the pursuit ...
2023-11-17 15:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post**Author Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!**...
2023-11-17 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that's a wrap. I went to the last 20booksto50k last week, and while the conference will go on, it has been renamed as Authors Nation and has a different group running it. It won't be Craig Ma...
2023-11-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWow, times flies. It's nearly the middle of the month and I'd meant to do this update at the start. Tells you how busy things are, even though it doesn't feel like it at times. Then again, I've bee...
2023-11-14 18:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostWu Ying trained, pulling at the extremes of his wind body, testing the bounds of his new immortal body and existence. He spun through the air and around the empty cavern, flitting between massive s...
2023-11-14 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostLessons, the personal lessons that Wu Ying conducted, for his most advanced of students were no longer conducted in the classroom. His personal students had long ago passed such hand holding, the D...
2023-11-10 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBeen thinking about the various stages that an indie author goes through, and figured I'd try listing the ones that I'm seeing here. Also, the various business and marketing / promotional things th...
2023-11-08 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“A half-step Immortal,” Sect Head Yan Shu Ren said, the older man – barely, it seemed, at least by appearance. Early forty’s at best, if he had been a plain mortal. Of course, Wu Ying knew ...
2023-11-07 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostLater that evening, when other pleasantries were over, the pair lounged in Wu Ying’s bedroom with trays of purloined dishes, transferred through the simple application of wind and dao inspiration...
2023-11-03 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostRecently had to go over a number of contracts for others and realised, well, I should probably create a post and/or document to make use of as a checklist for things to watch for.
Firstly, an...
2023-11-01 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post