Announcement: 3rd Story, Time Skip, and Stuff

Hello my amazing and beautiful Patrons! This announcement is a bit earlier than the regularly scheduled chapters since, there are many announcements and updates. The first piece of big news, is that my 3rd Story, Calculating Cultivation is now going up. You are getting the first 10 chapters today and 2 chapters a week after this Monday and Wednesday. They are beefy chapters are 5k each.

Blurb: Reincarnated into a land of cultivation, Yuan Zhou uses his Earth knowledge and assumptions to become a genius under the heavens for both business and cultivation. However, he walks the path of defiance, exceeding all rational cultivation bounds. His business ideas struggle against the stagnant culture that pervades the land, but the things he doesn't lack are his drive for immortality and power.

I normally don't like to ask more of you Patrons since you are already supporting me. But it helps a lot if you hit the favorite on Calculating Cultivation and give it a rating along with Tom Cat and Murder Mittens on Royal Road. This helps it climb up the Rising Stars list and get more attention. I am doing additional stories since art, editing, and getting books on Amazon is not cheap. Even with all your support, I am actually losing money as weird as that sounds. Favoriting and giving a rating is a tremendous help to push my stories up the Rising Stars list to get more visibility and more Patrons. That minute or two of clicking buttons and stars makes a huge difference.

The Systemic Lands will be hitting a time skip at the end of Volume 10, which will be around chapter 500. That will be in about a week. Once I reach that point there will be a break in chapters for one week. I am using this break to do the map, the Power Guide, math for the time skip, stat sheets, and figuring out the plot in more detail after said time skip. I will be taking a week off from posting chapters of the Systemic Lands at that time but am still working on the story. So a break in posting, but not in getting things ready for Arc 2. I wish it was a vacation lol, but it will be much busier than normal and trying to write chapters while doing all that is just asking for mistakes to happen and a lot of unnecessary stress. This is a great time to check out my other two stories and hit buttons.

Systemic Lands will also be going up on Amazon and KU on June 1st, with the first volume and then one volume a month after that, hopefully. Editing and covers are complex issues I am dealing with. The audio book will be coming out for the first volume, but later audio books are pending and will take longer to finish. Amazon.com: The Systemic Lands Volume 1: A Harsh Welcome 

Pre-orders can't be set up for paperback, hard cover, or audiobook, just the e-book. It will also be on KU. This means it will be going to a stub on May 13th on RR. While this won't affect any of you, I am letting you know.

In addition, the Systemic Lands will most likely reach the ending and answers in about 1 year+a few months from now or 700-1,000 chapters. Consider this a heads up if you want to do a year subscription. After this point, I make no promises. At least 1 years of content from now is my promise for Systemic Lands.

Fun fact, initially I was aiming for 20,000 chapters and 400 volumes. Countless chapters of interpersonal drama and very heavy filler volumes. Yes, I was a bit optimistic. Thankfully I have refused to use insane amounts of filler. Realistically, probably 25-30 total volumes total. Things will be picking up speed in some places going forward, but I don't plan on rushing. There is a lot of story left to tell. The Antagonists and ending are worked out as I have mentioned before, but a lot of details are still up in the air.

A good example is the Astrologer. I thought about doing more backstory for him, but I realized it wasn't necessary or really added anything. The UCS is gone, and he wasn't going to escape. No need to drag it out pointlessly.

I am trying various strategies to help Mittens get more traction. This means bonus content, both of the spicey variety for the first bit of bonus content. The next bit of bonus Patron only content after some creature spice will be the Power Guide, or the religious text that Michael will make up in story. One of the things I need to work on over my week break from posting chapters. Things that are fun/NSFW to read, but not crucial to the stories. Beyond that, they will come up as I think of them to generate more traction from RR to Patreon. This is another way I can show my appreciation and thank all of you for your continued support.

There is no plan on any Patreon cost or tier changes at this time. It will remain 10 USD and you will just get more value. Surprising right? :) In terms of posting schedule, there will be a vote end of May, early June to let me know, which of my stories you support the most and there will be an adjustment in posting rate based on that. Either a slight increase or decrease depending on what gets the most votes. This will likely happen after my other two stories drop off Rising Stars on RR.

As always, thank you again for your support. Without you amazing people it would not be possible for me to write this much.