I soared toward the nearest tree and smashed into it with all the elegance of a deer carcass blowing off the back of a truck into a telephone pole. I didn’t know what to do, but my new body did. ...
2024-02-09 02:11:12 +0000 UTC View PostSo, yeah. I still wasn’t sure if I’d been Isekai’d or not, but I was definitely, one-hundred percent dead.
Tail lashing, I opened my menu and searched for some hint, some clue as to why...
2024-02-07 15:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostGood lord this has been a long time coming! I hope you enjoy the chapters. The first three are Free for all readers; everything after that is for paid patrons only. 2024-02-06 21:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post
There is a huge amount of worldbuilding that goes into Archemi and the other series I'm working on. For example, here's some of the worldbuilding for Voidhunter:
The flu is finally backing off. Thank goodness.
I'm 21k words into Archemi 7, and about 30k into The Black Garden. The 50% for that book is 37.5K, so nearly halfway there.
For compariso...
2024-01-19 21:59:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been a productive month so far: the rewrite of Those Who Breathe Under the End is finished, my first complete short story in the Voidhunter: Lightbringer setting. I've pa...
2023-12-24 05:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The state of my projects. I'm very close to finishing Brute Force 1, which I'm finally getting done. I had a weird phobia of this project after some bad reviews on Royal Road, but I've finally gott...
2023-12-11 04:39:04 +0000 UTC View PostFirst time posting Rin's character sheet, as some of her abilities had mild spoilers about Archemi's magic and artificing system (ie. the significance of ley lines) that I wanted to leave until lat...
2023-11-17 20:40:56 +0000 UTC View PostKaralti, the Black Opal Queen
Level 21 Young Adult Queen Dragon
==Stats==
Strength: 205
Dexterity...
2023-11-17 09:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostOur boy is starting to look pretty stronk.
Dragozin Hector - Dauntan (Tuun)
Level 43 Paragon of the Nine
Strength: 109 (+12)
Dexterity: 1...
2023-11-16 05:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the long time between updates. I'm working my tushie off on Archemi #7 and The Black Garden, as well as getting ready for the 20Books Vegas conference coming up soon. Now that my life has...
2023-11-02 00:20:04 +0000 UTC View PostI'm currently in the process of refining the blurb for Dragon Seed, and I'm curious: what do you all think about the rewrite compared to the current blurb?
New Blurb:
The plan to retake Lovi wasn’t rocket science, though like all strategies, luck was a factor. Me and my crew had met up with the Vlachian 2nd Fleet at the border of Revala, bringing with us the d...
2023-07-13 17:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostFive thousand feet below my position, the city of Lovi burned.
Pillars of flame boiled unchecked into the sky from the once-white towers of the Revalan royal palace. Muzzle flash from artille...
2023-07-11 18:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostI touched the Wardbreaker to my lips, holstered it, and drew my second gun: a Ruger 22/45. There was no magic on this short-barreled, small-caliber suppressed pistol. It was a tool for killing. I s...
2023-06-26 04:19:45 +0000 UTC View PostI breathed in deeply, scanning the greasy walls, and focused my will into a sharp point of intent. The faint dizziness from the climb helped me dissociate my vision, splitting it between the Materi...
2023-06-24 04:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn my dream, I smell the ocean.
I'm on a balcony, looking over a different sea. Not the Atlantic. Not Brighton Beach. It's a flashing, brilliant blue, the color of a kingfisher's wings. Behin...
2023-06-18 19:51:12 +0000 UTC View PostInterrogation rooms were almost always interchangeable across all versions of Earth. White walls, white lights, one mirrored wall with dimly seen biosignatures on the other side. Only the locality,...
2023-04-29 17:21:12 +0000 UTC View PostI closed the comms link with a thought, and turned back to the agitated, desperate people with my heart in my mouth. But Digger was on the ball, as usual. Before I even had a chance to call on them...
2023-04-04 18:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Voidhunter Mythos is a fantasy/sci-fi setting I've been working on steadily for the last several years. There will eventually be multiple books written from the perspective of this characte...
2023-04-01 21:40:27 +0000 UTC View PostFive thousand feet below my position, the city of Lovi burned.
Pillars of flame boiled unchecked into the sky from the once-white towers of the palace. Muzzle flash from artillery lit up the ...
2023-03-23 17:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostPOG stands for 'people other than grunts', if you were wondering. The usually-humorous derisive term infantrymen use for everyone else. Treadheads are tank operators - or in Baldr's case, power...
2023-03-04 04:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostHector finally reveals a brief history of his world, and the wars that formed a major backdrop to his life, and the development of Archemi itself...
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2023-03-03 03:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe quest had been listed as a 'normal' difficulty, but I was starting to think that was exaggerated as I watched the group of bandits from overhead. Perched in a mangrove-like tree, Karalti peerin...
2023-03-01 00:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostBy morning, I had a rough plan sketched out. That plan was to head east into Ilia and disappear into the wilderness for a month. We could wait and level up until Karalti was big enough to fly, and ...
2023-02-26 04:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostEver wondered where the Tidbit nickname came from?
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Ilian Barking Deer might have experienced any number of hazards ...
And now, we go back in time to the end of Dragon Seed. What DID happen when Hector and Karalti first fled Fort Palewing?
A Patreon exclusive! Part 1 of 6.
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2023-02-22 21:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis contains character spoilers for Crowned in Black, so don't read it if you haven't read that book yet. One of several forthcoming parts of Those We Love, which shows some of the private mom...
2023-01-10 18:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post