The Tyrant Riot [PDF/EPUB]
Added 2023-04-04 05:24:42 +0000 UTCIt's nearly that time again - once book two is live on Kindle Unlimited, I'll be taking down all of the chapters covered on Royal Road, SpaceBattles, QuestionableQuesting, and Patreon. For those of you seeing this before the launch, help yourselves to one of the press copies attached below.
If you're reading this after April 6th 2023 and there are no press copies attached, swing by the discord (https://discord.gg/virtuoussons) and we'll get you sorted out.
Two days to go. See ya boys then.
Comments
Hey Striker, was just rereading this and for the orphic Zagreus sequence the 2nd and 3rd iterations are exactly the same word for word. With the king of earliest dawn and the kingdom reduced to ash each time. Shouldn't they be different? Don't know if this is just an issue with the pdf or not.
Daniel Fuller
2023-04-19 12:53:52 +0000 UTCStuff happens, and whilst I was expecting it to end with the pep talk with Scythas (This world was iron, but it didn't have to be), This was honestly the other place I saw as a good ending point. It probably will help the earlier olympia arc in Kings curse where things build up before they all go to hell flow better though. We'd get to see how the Decision to ally with Aleuas slowly expands, and begin the process of further destabilising things.
Red Kite
2023-04-08 13:37:58 +0000 UTCHey Striker! This might be mentioned elseware but will book 2 have an audiobook? Edit: NVM searched discord
Rayyyn
2023-04-06 08:48:30 +0000 UTCIn retrospect that would have been the better place to end things, yeah. At the time, we were worried there wouldn't be enough content remaining in the Olympia Arc to fill out an entire third book if we included more than we did. Now that the arc's finale is here and it's taken me five times more words to get through everything than I thought it would, I see that that wouldn't have been an issue. But it's a bit too late now.
Striker
2023-04-05 04:50:24 +0000 UTCAwesome! I wish you great success and for the story to keep flourishing more and more. My only slight complaint is that The Tyrant Riot ends an abrupt cliffhanger, when a heavily burnt Socrates slams against their ship and tells them to go back. I don't think that's the best place to end the book since that's not the end of that arc. If it's at all possible to edit, I would recommend ending the book in chapter 1.104, right after the Aleuas Pyrrhos's interlude, because chapter 1.104 actually gives closure for the arc and sets up the stage for what comes after, which is Solus's training in the cave and forming his alliance with four Tyrants while Griffon trains in the Olympic Stadium. Plus that chapter ends with a positive note from Griffon's POV: This world is iron, but it doesn't have to remain that way. Besides, ending Book 2 after the interlude from a Tyrant's POV resonates with the ending of Book 1, which ends in Polyzalus's interlude. And it would also make it so Book 3 would start with Chilon's interlude as the prologue, just like Book 2 starts with Myron's interlude as the prologue.
Caoimhín
2023-04-05 02:33:53 +0000 UTCThe majority of books are printed without first building a reader base like the webnovels do, so achieving popularity and success through only the sales of the printed copies has been proven to be possible already. It continues to be the way most best-sellers come to be, in fact. The story has built a fanbase, there are readers willing to spread the word, people who support the author through patreon, and there is the first book which has received high acclaim and reviews, paving the way for the second book. So long as the author keeps going, subscriptions will keep going. Reader volume on RR and other pages will also continue to increase. By 2027 the story would have already published many volumes, and likely be even more popular than it is today, so it would not be a problem to not have the first chapters available for free. Maybe the story would have finished and we would be reading Ya Boy's next story by then, who knows? Now the story is entering its next phase, and there's nothing wrong with that, it's the natural course of things to have it published and sold, it is an extension of the market and opens more avenues for income to flow for the author, which is always good. I mean, look at it this way: if someone that hasn't read the Harry Potter books wants to read them, they have a hundred ways to do that, the fact that it's not on RoyalRoad to read for free won't stop anyone from reading it, or from buying the books.
Caoimhín
2023-04-05 02:17:17 +0000 UTCWell, I hope it works out. And it won't be a problem this year, and most likely not next year either. But I predict that Patreon subscriptions and reader volume on RR are both going to stop growing soon (let's say by August) and slowly shrink for the next several years. Which I expect *will* start being a problem, by 2027 or earlier.
Jacob Kopczynski
2023-04-04 21:26:16 +0000 UTCThis is where the money's at, boss. One thing I always encourage is that if you have someone you'd like to recommend the story to, slide them a copy of the pdf/epub.
Striker
2023-04-04 19:16:38 +0000 UTCAhem. I'll get it fixed.
Striker
2023-04-04 19:14:13 +0000 UTChycftducygiuwefcuytgiwev
Striker
2023-04-04 19:13:58 +0000 UTCIt's how Kindle Unlimited works, unfortunately. You can't have the published work available in any form except on Amazon/Kindle while its in the KU program.
Haydn Nitzsche
2023-04-04 16:49:00 +0000 UTCYou might have trouble convincing new people on Royal Road who are used to endless free content, but this shift isn't any different than recommending something like Cradle on Kindle.
Alex M
2023-04-04 16:47:01 +0000 UTCI recognize the need to get money out of this, but taking down the early chapters already makes it pretty much impossible to get anyone new into it. With all of book two also hidden, I don't think I can realistically convince anyone to try it out. I think you're eating your seed corn here.
Jacob Kopczynski
2023-04-04 15:21:46 +0000 UTCI hate to be that dude but does the dedication on the third page have a typo? "For my ravings ones" instead of "For my raving ones"? lmao
Albatross
2023-04-04 14:13:16 +0000 UTCCongratz on your second book!
Luciaron
2023-04-04 13:13:11 +0000 UTCAh got it. In that case I wish you all the success so that more awesome webcomics can be afforded!
Joseph
2023-04-04 06:29:59 +0000 UTCIt's something I'd like to explore further in the future - just a matter of paying the artist's commission fees. Even just one adapted chapter is an obscene amount of art.
Striker
2023-04-04 06:07:18 +0000 UTCHey I was just wondering, will the webcomic ever continue?
Joseph
2023-04-04 05:54:43 +0000 UTCMaybe i just spend too much time online but reading books like this physically is always a nice change of pace. Really excited for the physical release Also can't wait for that hardcover to drop, really loved book 1s hardcover design compared to the paperback.
Glamb.
2023-04-04 05:31:33 +0000 UTCHells yeah!!
Sam Baker
2023-04-04 05:29:30 +0000 UTCHells yeah!!
Sam Baker
2023-04-04 05:29:22 +0000 UTC
