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Author Announcement: New Novel

Added 2025-06-16 01:30:02 +0000 UTC

Hi everyone!

Hope you’re all doing well.

Two quick things I want to share with you today:

First: I’m considering shifting Alonso’s POV back to third-person, past tense. The upcoming chapters will use this style, so let me know how it reads. I'd love to hear your thoughts — feel free to vote in the poll below!

Second (and most exciting): my new novel, No Place for Hope, is now launching here on Patreon! See below for the Cover and Summary.

I’m working on this new novel together with my friend Harry (who’s also been helping me with I Climb, keeping me from messing things up :) It’ll lean more heavily into LitRPG elements, feature a single POV, and have a tone and style I think many of you will enjoy.

As you can see from the posts above, the first five chapters are already live and available to read.

For subscribers, I’ll be posting three chapters per week (alternate days with I Climb), starting next week.

Also — a new membership tier (same as for I Climb) will open for No Place for Hope, starting next Monday. For those who want access to both novels, a combined tier will be available at $16.

But! For all current subscribers — as a thank you for supporting me from the start — you’ll be upgraded to this new combined tier at no additional cost. In other words, you’ll continue paying $10 monthly, and you’ll have full access to chapters from both novels. For anyone who hasn’t joined yet, this offer will be available until Monday 23 (12 pm, UTC + 12) — so there’s still time!

Thanks again for all your support and for reading — it truly means the world.

Cheers!

Summary of New Novel: No Place for Hope

Let’s go, lads. We got places to blast.
—Hope
In a cosmos splintered into human subspecies, forged by extreme worlds and bound by brutal caste- and race-purity hierarchies, an RPG-based System reigns supreme.
System Law No. 2: No logic-bound, self-sustaining construct—whether technological or magical—shall function without the direct, ongoing involvement of a living, magical entity. Any attempt to create automation or self-operating systems simply will not work.
Automation is dead. Magic requires will. Every spell, every machine, every tool must be guided by a living hand. No circuits. No self-fueling portals. No enchanted machinery left to run alone.
Humanity spread across the void—only to be bound in feudal chains, forged of blood and steel.
Follow the story of Hope—a street-raised orphan from a dead-rock wasteland—suddenly hurled into an Earth-like planet full of vivid colors and strange, bizarre things like grass, clouds, and even trees!
He’ll heed the constant ping of system messages, hunt and be hunted, and level up his skills in a place built to test him.
"Hope ain’t a feeling—it’s me."

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What to expect: