Hi Folks,
I want to toss out a general update, especially for anyone who's swinging by after finishing Aster Fall on Kindle.
Feel free to respond here with any questions, comme...
2021-12-11 17:13:39 +0000 UTC View PostPDF version for those who want that.
2021-12-07 02:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostMOBI version for those who want that.
2021-12-07 02:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostIf you missed the epub and were here for Dec, shoot me a message here and I'll send it to you.
The Amazon KU release is live for Book 2. Let your friends know!
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2021-12-06 23:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe only thing left at the center of the battlefield was the sealed Grand Flaw, gleaming like a pinprick of dark flame in the ice. The shaman, the walls of ice, and nearly all of the Outsiders were...
2021-12-06 20:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe shaman hadn’t delayed after attacking Elsanar. He had already turned around to grasp at the flaw again and was slowly drawing out another mass of spatial energy. This time, as Sam kept a care...
2021-12-06 04:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith the force of the relic’s energy driving the enchantment, the Pure Water Elemental Crystal began to resonate. Despite its rarity, it only had one purpose, which was to create water, and that ...
2021-12-06 04:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostA sense of overwhelming danger crashed down on Sam as he saw his father standing there. The Grand Flaw was much bigger than he’d expected, and with his dad’s position at the front, whatever hap...
2021-12-04 07:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as he was back to where Siwasir and the other Ice Sylphs were waiting, Sam held a brief planning session and checked on his father’s location. Then he sat down with the Pure Water Element...
2021-12-02 22:04:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grand Flaw was on the seventh layer, a layer below and a little to the south. Sam’s feet skimmed across the top of the snow, throwing up a light powder as he ran. Behind him, the Ice Sylphs f...
2021-11-30 18:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostDecember will be a free month on Patreon for subscription renewals. So, if you’re here, stick around and set it for auto-renewal in December.
The last chapters of Book 2 will come out this ...
2021-11-29 20:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Why would people work for Outsiders?” Sam growled to himself again as he flexed his talons, his attention turning to the three traitors that were still alive. After they were tied up, they had...
2021-11-28 23:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostSam sprinted across the tenth layer, his steps fluid. Behind him, the Ice Sylphs spread out in a wedge, their lean forms and white cloaks blending into the snow so well that they seemed to disappea...
2021-11-24 22:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe elements roared in fury, spinning into a shield that shattered a moment later as the monster’s jaws snapped down. Shards of hardened wind and ice flew around Sam, ringing off the tiny scales ...
2021-11-22 00:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostCrystal flame flared around him as he jumped, buffering his fall toward the third layer twenty feet below. Snow flew up in a welcoming billow around his shoulders as he landed.
He’d taken t...
2021-11-19 23:41:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe plaza was silent as snowflakes drifted down, covering the corpses that were scattered across it. Many of them landed on Sam, layering him in white. As the snow gathered, it flowed around his bo...
2021-11-17 23:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This piece is one of the oldest I commissioned. It was just finished.
Here are Sam and Jeric fighting the Basalt Gnome Warlord back in Book 1, under the Abyssinian Plains.
Sam's Charism...
2021-11-16 15:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe talismans struck the mangled corpses across the plaza, sizzling as the pale blood on them gleamed with an eerie, blue light. There had been twenty three monsters, but there were five times that...
2021-11-16 05:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostMoonlight streamed down the walls of the buildings as Sam ghosted away from the plaza and the trap enchantment. In his hand, there was a chunk of glowing, green crystal with a moon rune en...
2021-11-13 03:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostHe had an hour to prepare and the Outsiders shouldn’t know he was aware of them. His thoughts burned like wildfire as he considered the best approach. He wanted something that would destroy them....
2021-11-10 20:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe storeroom closed behind him with a resonant hum as the earth flowed back in, sealing over the entrance and restoring the unblemished appearance of the keystone. The three moons settled back int...
2021-11-07 19:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun rose slowly, turning the sky to a pale rose gold as Sam made his way to the location the Guardian Star had marked. Caelus hadn’t risen on the eastern horizon, but there was a soft blue gl...
2021-11-05 22:29:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe plateau was a circle roughly a mile across. Its edges ended in steep cliffs with no visible trail to the layer below, which was half a mile down in a nearly straight line. The only way Sam coul...
2021-11-03 19:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe land spread out beneath Sam’s view in dark, soaring mountains and snow-filled valleys. The Western Reaches stretched far off into the distance to the north and south, a line of white, night-e...
2021-11-01 21:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe currents of multicolored energy in the void spun around Sam as he turned in place. It barely felt like he was moving and it was hard to get a grasp of up or down. The only markers here were the...
2021-10-31 01:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe adventurers were not in good shape. Cesten was standing on his own and it looked like he would recover shortly, but Selis, Arena, and Obel were a wreck. Many areas of their skin were ash grey, ...
2021-10-27 22:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s the finished version of this piece.
I actually like his face in the half-finished version better. (The one with less definition to the flames).
2021-10-27 03:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostHis essence was nearly depleted, so Sam grabbed four auras from his storage and combusted them, taking himself back up to 92. He’d have grabbed more, but he wasn’t sure how much his meridians c...
2021-10-25 18:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostHis father raced through the scattered Coldfangs, following the path that the starflame arrows had cleared. A moment later, he sprang into the air, leaping twenty feet as he aimed for the top of th...
2021-10-21 18:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post