Spear of Destiny: Ch. 3
I woke to darkness, and a low, droning song that rose and fell, rose and fell… a healer’s lullaby, sung in a pleasant smooth baritone. Something warm and wet rolled dow...
2020-08-17 17:57:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Spear of Destiny: Ch 2
[SEED#: NUMBERFETCH 00-001A-TypeNew[HeraldOfMT]: Hector Park.]
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[HeraldOfMT]: Thank you for your contribution to Learning Cycle 3944390-SZ: Anomalous Malware...
2020-08-17 17:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostSpear of Destiny: Revised Ch. 1 (Draft 4)
The self-styled Emperor of Archemi was a lot bigger than I remembered. Close to seven feet tall, dressed in silvered armor that reflected the desert sun with a radiant aura that ...
2020-08-17 17:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostBrute Force: When the Boy meets the Girl.
The girl stared at me for several moments, warring with herself. Finally, she bought her hands up and began to sign again. "My name... you can call me Whisper. What's your name?"
That was a v...
2020-08-08 12:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostSpear of Destiny Sneak Peek: Ch 1, Part 1, Rough Draft
Spear of Destiny picks up exactly where Warsinger left off. Please forgive any clunky dialogue, my lack of formatting or any errors. I'm very interested in your first impressions: whether or no...
2020-07-19 05:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostArchemi Hardbacks Are Coming
Almost there...
I've been working on these puppies for the last week. Check out that long list of layers! There's a reason these things take time :)
2020-07-14 19:12:37 +0000 UTC
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Brute Force Opening: Draft 3
I've been working on Spear of Destiny and Brute Force, a new LitRPG series, at the same time. Yes, I am insane. But I'm enjoying this story so far.
There's been drafts of this published here ...
2020-07-02 17:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon and sales tax, update on paperbacks/hardcovers
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 several countries and US states, Pat...
2020-06-12 01:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostBrute Force: Chapter 1 (Revised)
Tell me what you think!
Chapter One
I woke up in Hell with a mouthful of sand.
"Pff! Pfffpt!" I flailed upright. Spat and coughed. My body felt three...
2020-06-05 11:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter Notes: Angkor
I have a lot of characters running around in my head between all my various projects. Angkor is the first Korean character I made, with Hector being a distant second. Ang is someone I might wri...
2020-05-19 23:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostBrute Force: System Notes #2
More work on the system underpinning my next big LitRPG project, Brute Force. You're all the first to see this: not even my wife has read this yet!
==Basic Concepts==
- Post-Mo...
2020-05-18 14:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostBrute Force: System Notes #1
These are some of the system developmental notes I've been writing for my next LitRPG project (to be written simultaneously with Archemi) - Brute Force, a LitRPG trilogy set in a survival/arena...
2020-05-17 17:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Meoweons
Do you want to have your voice to be in the Kingdom Come audiobook?
Well, here's something fun: we need people who can scream like angry cats.
And by that, I mean Soundbooth need YOU to...
2020-05-15 14:21:53 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Complete!
Hello, my lovelies - after much blood, sweat and tears, Warsinger is ready!
Here is the download link: https://BookHip.com/LASWD...
2020-05-04 06:15:14 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger Updates! TL;DR: Patrons get the whole thing tomorrow
Sorry for the pause in updates - I had last-minute some editing to do in the second half of the book before it's uploaded for release :D
In good news, I will be making the entire 150,000 wor...
Warsinger: Ch 36
The stairs to the Undercity were the worst part of the trip. Suri was right - there were a couple of Fireblooded toughs waiting at the bottom for us. They asked for three silver Dinars, and Suri wa...
2020-04-30 19:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Ch 35
4 Days later: Dalim, Dakhdir
As we came in over Dalim, the City of Bridges, I finally understood what Suri had meant when she'd told me the nobility of Dalim never walked on the grou...
2020-04-30 19:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Ch 34
Karalti and I went to bed in my bathtub, nestling down into the soft sand. Neither of talked about what had happened earlier in the night. The stress of dealing with the assassin had wiped us both ...
2020-04-30 19:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33
The six of us gathered around Vash’s bed in a state of silent shock. It had been less than twenty-four hours since Rutha's testimony... the one in which she'd given incorrect information as to Ba...
2020-04-27 09:35:59 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger - Chapter 32
Fuck text numerals.
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Twenty minutes later, I was recovering in the hospital on the bed beside Vash’s. Masha was gingerly palpitating the enlarged black v...
2020-04-27 09:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-One
The plot thickens. Other things also thicken.
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Karalti was silent through the short flight, teleportation, and landing. I could sense...
2020-04-27 09:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Chapter Thirty
Who is best waifu?
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We let the carriage take us to the Night Market, but damned if we were going to stay in the cabi...
2020-04-26 06:11:38 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Chapter Twenty-Nine
Hector has a sense of humor, but at heart, he's a serious sort of person.
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There was, in fact...
2020-04-26 06:10:04 +0000 UTC View PostEditing time! Plus bonus Chapter Material.
Sorry for the delay in updates - I've been editing! I realized I omitted a vital scene from Chapter 21... ugh. All of it will be integrated with the final book. Posting resumes as normal later toda...
2020-04-25 12:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostBonus: Suri Ba'Hadir Character Sheet
This is Suri's sheet as of the beginning of Warsinger. She has a very different character balance to Hector, focusing her points on a relatively small set of special co...
2020-04-21 20:26:12 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Chapter Twenty-Seven
I gathered the crew in Kalla Sahasi’s War Room, which was really just the ballroom but with a table. The castle’s actual war-room was missing its ceiling thanks to one of the Demon’s catapult...
2020-04-21 20:18:37 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger: Chapter Twenty-Six
In the vision, she had been nothing more than a sand-veiled silhouette striding through the desert, but the silhouette was unmistakable. She – it was somehow feminine – was rendered like a mech...
2020-04-21 20:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger - Chapter 25
It took us a while to hack and blast our way through the doors. One of them lead to the ass-end of the Ful Algol. There were more dung beetle-like [Guardian Drones] here, frozen in the moment that ...
2020-04-20 22:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger - Chapter 24
Karalti let out a shriek of warning, fleeing in the other direction as the heap in the middle of the floor reared up into a vaguely humanoid shape: big chest, narrow waist, like a giant's torso cru...
2020-04-19 22:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostWarsinger - Chapter 23
I’d seen chihuahuas smaller than the fat, mangy, hissing [Stranged Rats] surging toward us. There were dozens of them, writhing over and around each other as they boiled toward...
2020-04-19 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post