The Lich Days of Summer
The Lich Days of Summer is set a century before the events of Mage Errant.
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The last weeks of summer hang heavy in most lands, but ...
2021-09-21 08:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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September 2021 Short Story Vote
Time for the first official short story selection vote! Pick the story you like, and I'll write whichever one gets the most votes! (If, for plot/character/continuity reasons, I can't make the first...
2021-09-01 06:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tier
I went ahead and created a voting tier, Arbiter of Destiny, at $3, as per the winning vote in the poll! (Well, second to "cool with it, but wouldn't subscribe to it".) Anyone at that tier or above ...
2021-08-30 12:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostNew Tier Idea
I've had a few people inquire about adding additional tiers to Patreon lately. Up until now, I've been reluctant, because all of my various ideas have been, well, too much work for me right now. I ...
2021-08-27 12:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostMudflower Nights
This story is set during the events of Jewel of the Endless Erg.
Krita’s job was nine-tenths boredom.
She was absolutely fine with that. Boredom was good, when you...
2021-08-25 15:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostSiege of Skyhold Audio Release!
Mage Errant Book 5, The Siege of Skyhold, is now available on Audible!
Oh, and in ...
2021-08-04 05:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostOld Setah and the River
Since Old Setah and The River was the clear winner in the poll, here we go! This story is set on the continent of Gelid, two centuries before the events of Mage Errant. We'll ...
2021-07-19 09:09:11 +0000 UTC View PostChoose the next story:
I'm going to let you pick which story you get this month! All I'll tell you about them is that both are set on the continent of Gelid, and that they're wildly different .
2021-07-17 16:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostDead Alchemists
Dead Alchemists is set fifty years before Mage Errant.
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A bold alchemist is a dead alchemist.
Alchemy is a dang...
2021-06-03 03:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostTo Secure a Vault Part 2
Quick note- I changed the date of To Secure a Vault from a century before Mage Errant to forty years before. And sorry this one took so long, and had to be split into a two-pa...
2021-05-11 18:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostTo Secure a Vault Part 1
To Secure A Vault occurs almost exactly a century before Mage Errant. Part 2 should be out pretty quick next month, it's already half-done now! (I really wanted to release the whole thing this ...
2021-04-29 22:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostMage Errant 5 out now!
The Siege of Skyhold is out now!
Siege of Skyhold US link
2021-04-14 05:06:21 +0000 UTC
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Siege of Skyhold Preview Chapters 2&3
Really meant to get this month's short story done today, but it's kicking my butt. Partially due to the difficulty of the story itself- it's in first person, which isn't my usual territory, and...
2021-03-29 08:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostMage Errant 5 Preview
Attached is the first chapter of Mage Errant 5, the Siege of Skyhold. Extra-long short story next month!
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Hugh Stormward, once known as Hugh of Em...
Luthe of Clan Castis
This story takes place during the late spring, during the events of A Traitor in Skyhold, following Luthe of Clan Castis, Talia's eldest brother.
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2021-01-15 12:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Gorgon Incident
The following files are the sum of the intelligence Havath has been able to gather regarding the Gorgon Incident a few years back. Much of it is unverified, and a good portion is likely Skyhold...
2020-12-23 06:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostLost Qokeen
Lost Qokeen is set around a quarter century before the events of Mage Errant. It is, in great part, inspired by Wolf Hilbertz’s Autopia Ampere, one of the most brilliant, gorgeous utopian cit...
2020-11-01 18:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostBoots
Talia- as I promised, here’s the file on the boots stored in the Vault. While it is one of the most heavily secured items in the vault, it’s not a particular secret, unlike some of the othe...
2020-10-10 04:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostMirror Mage
Quick note: Murder In Ras Andis has been taken down from Patreon, since it's now at the end of book 4. Whenever I publish a volume of my short stories, I'll be taking down those stor...
2020-09-28 06:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wrong Librarian Part 2
Again, so so sorry this one is late. I'll do my best to make sure that doesn't happen again, 2020 is just... terrible and overwhelming. Also, making part 2 work necessitated making a couple min...
2020-09-06 21:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostPoll and Announcement
I should have last month's story up soon (again, so so sorry to be late on that, it's hugely embarrassing), but I wanted to give you all a couple options for what the next story will be, and let yo...
2020-09-05 20:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostPost delay
I meant to have this month's short story (The Wrong Librarian pt. 2) up yesterday, but it's run into some plot issues. Pretty sure I can fix it easily enough, so it should be up in the next day or ...
2020-08-31 22:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostMage Errant 4 out now!
I had planned the release of Mage Errant 4 for August 15th, but I came to four very important realizations today:
#1: I’ve just been sitting on the comp...
2020-08-13 22:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wrong Librarian (Part 1)
This story takes place just over a century and a half before the events of Into the Labyrinth. It was written using the I Ching, like Phillip K. Dick used the I Ching to write The...
2020-07-31 12:37:42 +0000 UTC View PostSales Tax Update
Hi everyone,
I wanted to give you an update on some changes that we’ll be seeing which may affect some of your pledges. Due to new laws passing in severa...
2020-06-26 02:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wanderer
This story starts a dozen years after the fall of Imperial Ithos at the hands of Kanderon Crux and the twelve other founders of Skyhold. The basic idea for the story came to me in a dream, and ...
2020-06-22 02:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostMage Errant 4 Preview
I meant to have a full short story done for you this month, but the current short story- The Wrong Librarian- is proving rather difficult, and I didn't want to give you another split s...
2020-05-31 15:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wrack Release
Just a quick note- my new standalone epidemiological fantasy novel, The Wrack, is out now!
2020-04-23 09:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostTsarnassan Silk, Part 2
The name of the woman he’d rescued was, to Keinan’s amusement, Ash.
Of course, when he had to explain that he’d killed her pursuers from atop an ash tree, she only gave him a brie...
2020-04-06 12:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostTsarnassan Silk, Part 1
Sorry this one comes so late in the month, folks. I've been pretty overwhelmed in March- I spent the first part of March finishing The Wrack and getting it off to my editor, then I too...
2020-03-31 13:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post