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Crimsoncrest: Chapters 36-37

Oh wow, Patreon took away the scroll bar. This is lovely for long posts. -_- They wanted to get everything on one page, but they accomplished this by hiding various features in sub-menus, including...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 34-35

I don't talk about it very often, but I have some news regarding my Discord server. We've recently added a new channel, splitti...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 32-33

Sorry that this week's chapters are shorter than average, but you'll see why. If anyone doesn't like this idea as much as I do, know that the chapter after this is the longest in the entire series,...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 30-31

Politics time! One of my big things in progression fantasy (I even wrote an essay about it years ago) is that I think it's most satisfying when advancement doesn't mean fighting enemies with higher...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 28-29

Time for some unexpected twists this week, and I don't mean anyone suddenly being revealed to be a Fleshmasker. Though it's quite evident that my sense for what makes characters interesting over a ...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 26-27

I was worried I'd foreshadowed the direction of this book too strongly, but I've seen a lot of discussion expecting very different directions. As I've said in past books, one of my goals with the s...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 24-25

Chapter 24

Sometimes Nauda struggled to believe that so much had happened while she was oblivious. Part of it might be that Siata had been untouched, the city around her as p...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 22-23

Back into the thick of things this chapter, further entangling the plot threads of this book.

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Chapter 22

Fiyu was immensely impressed with Relative Guchiro, dur...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 20-21

I've been chuckling over some of the discussions this book, waiting for this chapter. Anyway, some stuff happens. ^-^

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Chapter 20

When the battle started, Theo h...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 18-19

Writing an intentionally expansive setting is a tricky balancing act. Focus too much and entire worlds will go unexplored, but move across too many and each one will feel shallow. I've tried to do ...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 16-17

Hello, everyone! I have been traveling a bit, but I am back now. I'm glad that people have been enjoying Crimsoncrest. ^-^

One popular way to construct stories is to have archetypical charact...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 14-15

Chapter 14

Nauda honestly wasn't sure what to think about everything Theo had done between the convocation of souls and the current day. At the last moment on Deuxan, she had...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 12-13

Chapter 12

Another day, another Asplundat city. The endless boxes had become wearying to Fiyu and she had the sense they were even more discomforting to Friend Nauda, who lon...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 10-11

Chapter 10

After so long fighting against the Asplundat Movement, Fiyu had almost begun to think of them as enemies, so it was very strange to be traveling within their terri...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 8-9

Chapter 8

For the first time in her life, Fiyu discussed the path of their journey with a relative, and it wasn't the achievement of adulthood that she had hoped. She helped ...

Crimsoncrest: Chapters 6-7

It's April, so we're returning to the normal schedule. FYI, I will be doing some traveling. I have prescheduled all the upcoming chapters, so you should receive them as normal, but if anything goes...

Crimsoncrest: Chapter 5

As a reminder, this is the last of my break month chapters. Starting next week, I'll return to the normal posting schedule, which I hope to maintain through the whole of Crimsoncrest.

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Crimsoncrest: Chapter 4

Across the Nine Worlds, relatively few creatures could stand up to an Authority-tier soulcrafter. They were extraordinary sublime beasts, truly rare entities that were desired more than feared, not...

Crimsoncrest: Chapter 3

Okay, here's the plan: I will take it easy posting chapters in March, but only March. As soon as we hit April, back to the normal chapter schedule. I don't know if I'll always do this between books...

Crimsoncrest: Chapter 2

Everyone was very kind last week. ^-^ Often between books I've taken a break, or if I had time/energy, put out a series of informational posts like the soulcrafting tutorials or Nine Worlds anatomy...

Crimsoncrest: Chapter 1

Hey, everyone. We just did the book launch last week and I am tapped, both in terms of energy and emotion. But I don't see any particular reason to delay, so let's start with at least one chapter o...

Skyvenom Release Day!

The new book is out, everyone! Please check it out on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWXXLW2X

If...

Skyvenom Cover Reveal

There was some uncertainty over the timeline and various details, but it didn't amount to any problems in the end: we are moving toward a Skyvenom release next weekend!

Likewise, I don't anti...

Nauda's Blueprints Post-Skyvenom

And so we come to the last blueprints - Nauda had the biggest change this book, finally merging her two leg columns. It has been many books since the collapse of her soulhome, but her rebuilding pl...

Fiyu's Blueprints Post-Skyvenom

Next up we have Fiyu's blueprints! It's tricky trying to do qualitative improvements throughout a long series, so I understand why many series either use incremental powerups or give characters nev...

Theo's Blueprints Post-Skyvenom

Thanks again to Lamsey for keeping the blueprints updated! I also threw in the overall design for Theo's new cube in case you forgot from last book.

These will be tiding you guys over during ...

Skyvenom: Epilogue

And with this chapter, we conclude Skyvenom! More notes after.

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"-and we had hoped that the new initiative would increase Ruler recruitment for the House, but Blacksilver continues to ...

Skyvenom: Chapter 52

I'm glad people generally enjoyed the climax last week. ^-^ This time we have the full conversation between Theo and Dave... while obviously it won't answer every single question, I didn't want it ...

Skyvenom: Chapters 50-51

Here are your chapters for this week.

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Chapter 50

Theo walked down the long corridor one last time to face the Deuxan council. The walls surrounding the central ...

2024 in Review

It's strange to try to describe how 2024 was a year of both highs and lows. The highs are obvious: I hit my new all time record for peak ranking with the Deathseed release and The Weirkey Chronicle...