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Old Opening of Kingdom Come

When I quizzed fans on what kind of content they'd like to see between books, one of the most popular responses were cut chapters that didn't make it to the final books for whatever reason.

T...

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Untitled Sci-Fantasy Thriller Opening Chapter

I've been sick as a dog, and mostly cooped up in bed for the last month. I managed to get covid AND flu in Vegas. It has been a real bad time.

Anyway, I've had this sci-fi demon ...

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Recovering from Covid, and What's Next

I kind of fell off the face of the planet due to getting covid while in Las Vegas. I'm tripled-vacced, so it was like a bad cold with a lot of fatigue and brainfog rather than anything dangerous. S...

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Crowned in Black is live!

Thank you guys so much for both bearing with me through a very difficult few years, and for reading along with Crowned in Black as it developed. I greatly appreciate you all <3

Patrons of...

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Crowned in Black: Epilogue

“Grrhhn... hnnnn...”

Lucien groaned as his awareness swum back in. There was nothing but solid darkness, and a crushing pressure pinning him to the ground like the hand of God himself. Ev...

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Chapter 55

Two Days Later.

I had a weird sense of deja vu as I woke to the bluish dawn light streaming in through the curtains across from my bed. We were back in the guest suite normally given...

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Chapter 54

The cold wreckage of Istvan's old home was gone. In its place was a compass-shaped garden with four broad paths and four narrow ones, all of them leading to a pair of trees: one larger, one smaller...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 53


7 Days later

Crowds of people turned out onto the streets, awed and anxious, as the shadows of airships and dragons darkened the streets of Taltos. We let the warhorns b...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 52


For the first time in a thousand years, Litvy fell under the shadow of dragon’ wings. The newly freed Solonkratsu flew in dizzying patterns above the city, exulting in their newfound...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 51

We appeared right over the entry to Vastil Pass, barely a quarter of a mile behind the might of Janos' fleet. A hundred and fifty dragons - white, silver, green and blue - with Karalti in the lead ...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 48

Chapter 48

"Got you!" Lucien shrieked with laughter as he twisted the sword, leaning on it. "Got you, got you, got you! Both of you, dead! Now who's the king now, 'Ororgael'? Me! IT’S ME!...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 50

None of the dragons stopped us as we flew for the Eyrie.

Karalti was near the end of her endurance, but flew with a grim determination I had only seen a few times before. The two hundred-or-s...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 49

Solnetsi's body charged with electricity, and lightning snapped across the ground around her, coiling like whips. Even if Lucien hadn't been a coward, he wasn't getting near her - but he was, in f...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 47

Oh boy, have I been waiting to write this chapter for a LONG time.

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“Nice to see you here, at last. Knew you’d come o...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 46

Chapter 46

The queen’s petrified body formed a crescent around an activation plinth: the one that would normally open the door to the reactor core of Solnetsi’s Dragon Gate. From the wa...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 45

I vanished backwards, anticipating a hit—but it didn’t come. Karalti squawked as the whatever-it-was flew overhead and around, then hit the ground with a rumble that shook dust from the roof of...

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Name Cutthroat's Chicks!

Now the higher tier folks have had a chance to name Cutthroat's chicks, it's open to all Patreon Patrons!

Names can be Archemi-esque (and therefore reasonably lore compliant) or meme-hilario...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 44

The first time I'd approached Fort Palewing was by land. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, with no clue as to the sheer amount of shit I was about to get myself into, I’d ridden Cutthroat all the way...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 43

Double post today!

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Flying straight into Fort Palewing - or even teleporting to Cham Garai directly - would pretty much be s...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 42

It was only me and Istvan in the War Room today. I sat down while Istvan paced.

“Another hundred ships are joining Janos’s fleet. They’re building a fortress out on the plains. None of ...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 41

We were all exhausted by the time we reached Kalla Sahasi. I was having to readjust to remembering to breathe more than once every five minutes or so, and felt light-headed as I climbed the stairs ...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 40

The Spear sunk in and twisted easily, causing the center part of the activation plinth to drop down as the rest of it unfolded into... a control panel. An arcane control panel, with buttons made ou...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 39

Matir turned and glided towards the sealed door, reaching a hand out toward it. His hologram seemed to merged into it as the whole thing hummed, and then broke into segments that withdrew down into...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 38

“Okay. So… that didn’t go as well as we might have hoped for. But at least we all made it out.”

The group of us were back outside of the maze, recovering at our respawn point. None of...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 37

"Eternally...?" I was seriously hoping Matir meant 'because of the Drachan' and not because of 'big bad boss capable of PKing Starborn', but before I had a chance to figure that out, the ceiling cr...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 36

The first things I heard were the clanging of metal and screams, but it was the pain that brought me back to awareness. My head throbbed with pain so intense that it woke me. My eyes flickered open...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 35

I led the way through the portal, Spear at the ready. The lack of mobs thus far surprised me. Most dungeons in Archemi had a few, at least. It was also bothering me, because we needed a fuckton of ...

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Crowned in Black: Chapter 34

The hallway, big enough to admit a full-sized queen dragon on foot, seemed to stretch into oblivion. There were bizarre black fire torches lining the walls, shimmering and barely visible in the dar...

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Crowned in Black: Ch 33

I went to see Ignas just after sunset, alone, while the others were getting ready for our trip to the Dragon Gate. I arrived to find Masha sitting by his bedside, quietly reading to him from a smal...

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Crowned in Black: Ch 32

For the first time since I'd moved into the place, Kalla Sahasi was alive with music, laughter, color and food. We'd had victories before, but not even a single day between crises to properly celeb...

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