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Surgery Fun Time and Project Status

Archemi 7: about 30% complete.

Brute Force 2: 15% ish, working on a big boss scene

Faith Healer: Comic in process; nearly finished the art for the first episode, but see below.

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Archemi 7 preview...

[SEED#: NUMBERFETCH 00-001A-TypeNew[HeraldOfMT]_PARAGON: Hector Park.]

[Agent Incident Log]: PARAGON security agent present during novel breach attempt by [FETCHERROR: NULL] versus ATHENA Cel...

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Updates and News

Dungeon Crawler Carl: Season 3 is finished! If you listen to the DCC audio immersion tunnel, Seasons 2 & 3 have tons of bonus content added by me and Ben Wolf. I'm thrilled to have been able to...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 30

Not really happy with this chapter, but I'll have to rewrite/edit once the book has rested for a while.

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For some reason, every personal interac...

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Dungeon Crawler Carl is eating my life

Sorry I haven't updated in a while! The DCC AIT Season 3 script is in its final stages, and it is basically overriding every other production currently underway. It will be over a couple days, and ...

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As Archemi #7 gets underway...

So, here's one of the more consequential polls I've ever run.

Which of the remaining Dragon Gates and the Nine are you most interested in seeing Hector, Karalti, Suri and the others engage w...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 29

As the world looped and spun, I hunkered down into my composite tin can and ran through the plan. We had orbital data from the scans we now knew worked on the bunkers. We had the map Lilia had ripp...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 28

Once Teams 1 and 2 were gone, it was just me and Hura. The Earthship had been sterilized of our presence, left clean but abandoned. I ran over my final loadout while Hura waited for some confirmato...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 27

I'm at the point with this novel where I'm having to remind myself that this is part of a very large project that I'm still feeling out in prose, and once it's done, I can make it better. I may...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 26

We're back! C2E2 and Kansas City Comicon wiped me out. But now we're on the home stretch for this novel as I write Archemi 7. Hope you enjoy the chapter: it's a long one.

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Surprise! A new Archemi Audiobook

You may recall that I wrote Fugitive Status, a novella that bridged Dragon Seed and Trial by Fire, back in 2023.

Well, Soundbooth Theater have recorded Fugitive Status in their customary qual...

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Brief pause for editing, and some art

I need to pause The Black Garden for a week or two while I finish writing and editing the final chapters. The first three-quarters of the manuscript has been edited into its final form (you guys ha...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 25

Neither of us said a word, sprinting back toward the entry bulkhead. Ratty slammed the big door closed behind us. If reinforcements were coming, they would have to run an angry Abyssa...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 24

Once a lithium fire got going, it stayed going for as long as it felt like burning. Even the Khememmu kept a safe distance from the straight pillar of flame and black smoke towering into the sky fr...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 23

The combined force of Hellions and Nu-suht drones were dug in like ticks. There were only two visible Nu-suht on patrol, easily recognizable by their towering height and elegant, horse-like heads. ...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 22

I passed out on the trip back, hanging onto Gaius and the flank of one of the big Khem, and woke up in a bed I didn’t recognize. An actual bed, not a stretcher or a sleeping pad in the back of a ...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 21

The Blind Mice had left the big grey sedan almost hanging off the edge of the road, one tire sunk down into the mud. Surprisingly, there was no enemy activity around the vehicle – and with a jolt...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 20

Tsariel could sense it, and led me unerringly in the right direction. As we grew closer, I could feel it: raw waves of malevolent terror. There was no sensation like it—pure malevolence radiating...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 19

Ironically, it was their Gaussian Silencer Field that gave them away. Five lean, deadly figures, sliding through the thick under-canopy like a pack of wolves in a bubble of unnaturally perfect sile...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 18

I gunned the throttle, blasting between frightened pedestrians at a crossing, running a red light. I swung the bike around at a corner and shot off at a ninety-degree turn faster than the lumbering...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 17

BRRT BRRT.

I stirred groggily as my morning alarm and several message alerts purred against my inner ear. My lower back was cramped, and I grimaced as I shifted around and my hips cl...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 16

Dopamine, the primary reward hormone in humans and many other species, didn't last very long - a few minutes at most - while the cocktail of endorphins I'd been drip-feeding Mert would linger for a...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 15

Spicy! 

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The New Warder Hoffman Memorial Hospital was in one of the poorer areas of the city, close to the road that led to the zoned warehouses that serv...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 14

Jak left me to my own devices in the demon-haunted house, where I turned my attention to my little hellspawn friends. I had big plans for them - and no intention of staying in the Confluence reside...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 13

The parasites were like nothing I’d seen before. Despite my need for energy, I almost forgot to eat while I studied the three surviving tadpoles in their now-separate jars. These little champions...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 12

Jak took us up into the misty green hills, along a narrow rammed-earth driveway and into a small parking lot in front of the Confluence residence: a stunning, organic building that disrupted very l...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 12

Jak took us up into the misty green hills, along a narrow rammed-earth driveway and into a small parking lot in front of the Confluence residence: a stunning, organic building that disrupted very l...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 11

Beside me, Jak zoned in on the road with the intensity of a hunting eagle, flying past the other traffic, putting it between us and our pursuers as we tore up the chargeglass beneath our wheels. My...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 10

My mind worked quickly as I smiled at Peggy. "Ohhh, I see. That's just a pre-screen tick from the Medical Corps.”

"Really? Whatever does it mean?" Peggy asked, with a measure of real innoce...

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The Black Garden: Chapter 9

New Warder was a long way from Jump Base Tiamat.

My first leg was to get back on the Fetch Quest: one of CEIDR's two branchships and among the newest, built specifically for stealth ...

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