Thank you everyone for your feedback and voting on my poll. It's clear that most of you are happy to support me through fallow periods as well as fertile ones, but enough voices made a compelling c...
2025-12-05 22:14:13 +0000 UTC
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I'm not sure what's the appropriate Patreon etiquette here.
But if I want to take December to plot out the Throne Hunter books and bank chapters, is it considered 'polite' for me to pause th...
2025-12-03 16:17:35 +0000 UTC
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Quick note to keep everyone up to speed:
With Gods of the Game #3's first draft finished, I'm going to do a read through/polish this week, then send it over to my copy editor...
2025-12-01 16:04:41 +0000 UTC
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5 Years Later
The view from the top of the orbital tether was mesmerizing. Cloud cover far below expanded into a vast curvature that hid the bleak landscape of Patagonia from...
2025-11-25 20:15:03 +0000 UTC
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Jessie flew at Charn Chai, her form blurring as she tapped Ramming, her blades incandescing as she engaged Conductive. Shadows wreathed her frame as if night were coalescing about...
2025-11-25 00:35:09 +0000 UTC
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Game day.
The Finals.
The atmosphere in their flutterline was brittle. Tense. Fatalistic. Twice they’d played Nullpoint, and twice they’d been decisively beaten. And today they’d ...
2025-11-24 20:09:23 +0000 UTC
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Introspection.
Lance forgoed training sessions to instead walk, hands linked behind his back, and think.
Sindre’s advice came to him: You want to jump up a whole tier? Then you ne...
2025-11-23 21:12:01 +0000 UTC
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Meaning derived from purpose.
Existence boiled down to one goal: victory.
Humanity stripped to its rawest core.
This basic, crude ideology challenged, however, at every turn. Each...
2025-11-23 01:16:05 +0000 UTC
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Lance scrambled up against the wall, eyes wide, recoiling from the apparition. Who refused to dissipate, and instead leaned back to sip on his mug of something hot.
It was Virgil.
Alive...
2025-11-21 21:46:13 +0000 UTC
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There was nobody in the training center. The echoing space felt sacred. A cathedral of blue flooring and fluorescent lighting. That familiar smell of rock, rubber, and oil.
Maybe it was becau...
2025-11-19 16:57:17 +0000 UTC
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It turned out the Echo Charoen had something unexpected in common with the dead Charoen: pride.
Having been pinned and forced to watch their team lose stirred a deep and primal force within h...
2025-11-18 17:28:21 +0000 UTC
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I've run into a bit of a conundrum with my approach to the end of Gods of the Game #3, and am going to take a day or two to get the next chapter just right. Doesn't help that I'm traveling tomorrow...
2025-11-12 20:30:03 +0000 UTC
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The medical drones worked their magic. Charoen slept for most of the flight home. There were after-game celebrations, but he was only dimly aware of them. Buenos Aires was apparently a wonderful ci...
2025-11-11 20:14:25 +0000 UTC
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The game against the Platinum Suns was held in Buenos Aires. They rode a massive flutterline ship across the globe, everybody strapped in and absorbed with their own thoughts or Neural Link enterta...
2025-11-10 17:21:38 +0000 UTC
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Time spent alone.
Hours in his bunk. The walls bland and beige. The lighting overhead adjusted to a dull glow, a faint but constant ember. The bedding perfectly suited to his frame and weight...
2025-11-06 19:04:28 +0000 UTC
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Sindre
“Well, that was a merry shitshow,” said Virgil, pouring himself a glass of white wine.
Sindre moved uneasily in the office chair. “I thought you weren’t ...
2025-11-05 20:39:36 +0000 UTC
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His isolation couldn’t last.
Virgil ended his silent stint with a team channel message that had special override privileges so that even Charoen saw it despite his mute.
Everyone,...
2025-11-04 19:38:10 +0000 UTC
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Charoen could sense the tension boiling in the training camp. It was there in the whispered conversations other players had amongst themselves when he walked by. It was in the strain in Sindre’s ...
2025-11-03 20:01:57 +0000 UTC
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Available Apex Zone Armor abilities.
■ Shadowed: Generates a low-spectrum distortion field that bends light and muffles sound, making...
2025-10-31 18:51:29 +0000 UTC
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The sound of Virgil’s lazy applause died away as the three men walked—well, Virgil limped badly, his limbs barely carrying him in a straight line—over to where Charoen sat.
“Incredibl...
2025-10-28 17:17:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Apologies, but I wasn't able to finish the latest chapter today. One of those unexpected complications blew up my schedule, and as I've yet to build up a backlog I don't have an...
2025-10-27 21:12:32 +0000 UTC
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It took Charoen six days to integrate the socket, stimpack, and the baseline rewiring of his body’s code.
Six days of alternating deep sleep and fevered nightmares. His body sought to rejec...
2025-10-24 17:25:47 +0000 UTC
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Jessie burst into the community center just as an ashen-faced Mandeep was serving plates of butter chicken over saffron rice.
The atmosphere between him and Clovinn had grown brittle, her dis...
2025-10-22 17:53:09 +0000 UTC
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The Vyperion ascended to an altitude of 10 miles. The sky deepened to indigo while above it darkened to a violet-black dome. The sun grew ever brighter, the shadows in the cabin knife-edged, till i...
2025-10-20 16:41:51 +0000 UTC
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“…the sea of thought is calm tonight. Let your breath follow the waves in… and out. The body remembers the tide even when the mind resists.”
The voice was soothing, with slow, rolling...
2025-10-17 17:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Darkness.
Turbulent currents. The swish and curl of unmoored thoughts. Impressions that failed to leave a mark.
Intimate darkness, swirled by emotions. Emotions like the flicksilver fla...
2025-10-15 14:09:21 +0000 UTC
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[Here we go, starting a new book and returning to our M/W/F schedule. I'm hoping this will be a much easier book to write, and that we'll be all wrapped up with both this novel and this series ...
2025-10-13 16:31:25 +0000 UTC
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It's here at last! I hope the general readership enjoys the tale as much as you all seem to have done, but I can't deny being nervous about its reception. One way to find out, I suppose.
If y...
2025-10-13 16:26:48 +0000 UTC
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THE LOST CUBE is finished, copy edited, and in Podium's hands. It's done! For better or worse, Book 4 of The Immortal Great Souls is complete, and ready to be published on Amazon.
Thanks to y...
2025-10-06 17:12:02 +0000 UTC
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If you're close to Oklahoma City at the end of next month (Oct 26th), come by the HEMA tournament being hosted by the Cymbrogi...
2025-10-02 16:57:59 +0000 UTC
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