Daniel Schinhofen

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Chapter Eighteen

Things quickly settled into a routine again. Rudit and Makkar would be taking time off in a few days, with the rule about no visitors known by the entire family. The men hadn’t approached Makkar about buying the slaves yet, and Gregory resisted the urge to try seeing that future. He wanted to have as little knowledge about it as possible in case he was ever questioned. His brief chat with his wives the morning after speaking with Rafiq had Yukiko agre...

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Chapter Seventeen

“Good morning, Rudit.”

“Is it? Your family returned after dinner, and while it wasn’t required for you to check in, one of you should have.”

Gregory bowed in his seat. “Apologies, Ambassador. I will endeavor to not make that mistake again.”

“For someone born on the fringe, it can be overlooked,” Rudit said. “But I’m disappointed in Yukiko for not considering it.”

Gregory felt the watchers on them and knew...

Aether's Revial 10: Buldoun's Blunder

The preorder is up...

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No chapter on the 31st

With the book dropping on the 1st, there will be no chapter of AR10 on the 31st.
Also with the book dropping basically that day or the day after, I want to hold off on preview chapters of HC3 until Thursday April 3rd.
This way no one is surprised by this happening.

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Chapter Sixteen

The evening was full of laughter and good memories. Clover, Ling, and Mindie each sparred with Verka. Since they all used the staff as weapons, all of the fights were competitive. Jenn and Ragnar also got a match in after them, which shocked Ivar and Moha at how well the much smaller woman did. Ragnar still won in the end, but it took him wearing Jenn completely down to do it. They both took small wounds, though nothing life-threatening. With Ragnar havi...

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Chapter Fifteen

When Gregory came back to awareness, his wives were gathered around him. Verka and Mindie were on either side of him, checking him for injuries. “I’m fine,” Gregory said as the memory faded.

“What happened?” Mindie asked.

“It was another memory, wasn’t it?” Verka asked.

“One of me placing Darkness’ core in the Krogheim temple,” Gregory said after double-checking they were still unwatched.

“Goodness…” Cl...

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Chapter Fourteen

Gregory grinned as he stopped meditating. It was known to the family that their watchers never showed up until breakfast. Since they were with Verka and Ragnar, they’d opted to meditate instead of truly sleep, but they’d made it look like they were going to sleep. That was why, at midnight, Ragnar and Verka came out of their shared room in the family home. The women had managed to convey the plan when hugging Verka good night.

As the siblings ...

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Chapter Thirteen

Ragnar’s body blazed with aether flame as he rushed Gregory. He was amused and upset at the same time. If he delayed dinner, his mother might refuse to let him eat until everyone else was done. His sister would do her best to ensure there was only a scant bit left, too— she’d done it before. Gregory was going to do his best to keep the spar going as long as he could, just to get back at him for suggesting it. It’s like it was before…&...

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Chapter Twelve

The walk down the road was pleasant… for the most part. Shock, surprise, and some hard looks from the Kroggians going into the city accounted for nearly every expression they saw. None of the family were upset about it. After all, seeing seven magi walking down the road was unusual in the extreme. Seven magi shortly after a war that had seen the empire lose was even odder. If not for Ragnar and Verka chatting with them whil...

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Chapter Eleven

“Good morning, Rudit.”

“Good morning, Gregory. Looking forward to meeting your potential in-laws?”

“We all are.”

“You have a present of welcoming for them?”

“Of course. We wouldn’t want to lessen our family or clan in their eyes.”

“Very well. What do I need to know about your time away?”

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Chapter Ten

“Ragnar will be at the duels this morning,” Gregory said. “Nothing to be alarmed about. He just wants another spar with me.”

Rudit sat back, staying silent for a moment before she nodded. “I see. Everything else is fine?”

“Roshana’s trip to the harbor has her competing with a priest who gets a little too loud about magi. Roshana wins the respect of the water priests by outper...

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Chapter Nine

The day of lockdown wasn’t awful for the embassy. Some drunkards did accost the guards as Gregory had foreseen, but it didn’t escalate, as the men were well-disciplined and had been warned about the incident. Gregory spent a couple of hours each with his wives since everyone was stuck inside the walls. Everyone was looking forward to the day afterward, as Gregory was able to glean that Verka would be at the duels then. When...

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Chapter Eight

The crowd was cheering loudly as the last honor fight of the day had a Kroggian winning. Mindie rushed over to heal the magi guard, leaving Gregory with Stenson. It was time to ask for their duel.

“High Priest,” Gregory said, turning to face Stenson, “I request an honor duel, one that is closer to my range. If you would, my request is that you would limit yourself to under grandmaster in aether and ski...

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Chapter Seven

A month of routine settled in, with the only difference being that Clover’s time was split between alchemy and going into the city to just talk to people. Gregory always checked Clover’s days when she did to make sure she was safe. There were a few things that could cause her trouble, but nothing that she couldn’t talk her way out of. That did let her hear that a celebration was being put together for the raiders’ retu...

AR10 Ch6

Chapter Six

“Good morning, Rudit,” Gregory said, taking his seat across from her.

“Good morning, Gregory,” Rudit replied. “I have some questions about the ambassadors coming to speak with Yukiko during my days off.”

“Yes, ma’am,” Gregory said.

“Some might find it odd that two ambassadors visited while I was away.”

“As our reports stated, ma�...

AR10 Ch5

Chapter Five

“There’ll be just as many spies today,” Gregory said as he sat between Mindie and Roshana. “Clearwind doesn’t have anything nearly as sensitive to talk about, so it’s not going to bother us. He is surprised at how many different people are involved in keeping tabs on us.”

“It is surprising,” Yukiko said. “They have had eyes on the office all day. I was tempted a couple of times to use my r...

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Chapter Four

“We’re under heavy scrutiny today,” Gregory said, taking his seat between Clover and Ling. “As much as we’d like to use the enchantments, it draws even more attention to us if we do.”

“Aww…” Clover said in disappointment.

“A pity, but if we’re being watched that much, it might be better if we don’t tempt even more attention,” Yukiko said.

“Is i...

AR10 Ch1

Previously…

Pulled into the solstice tournament at the invitation of High Priest Stenson, Gregory and Jenn did their best to prove their strength to Krogga. They didn’t just try to crush their enemies, instead building goodwill even as they won time and again. In the end, both of them still lost to the youngest High Champion of Krogga, Ragnar Ivarson.

The bigger surprise was that Ragnar was far more than he appeared, ...

Luck's Voice 9: Blessed Nations

Here is the cover art and the preorder link.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTT99JWX

HC2 audio is up on preorder

Podium had the audio for HC2 up on preorder, here is the link.

LV9 Ch1

Here we go folks, the preview for Luck's Voice. It's been a wild ride for Doc, and now we're at the last book in the series.
We've mostly stayed to Emerita for the entire series as my plan was the story would focus on it. However for the last book we'll see a touch more of the world as Doc had to build something greater to hope to prevail.
I hope you enjoy the preview truncated as it will be as we'll hopefully be on track for starting the new publishing schedule on February 1st.
Any...

AL4 Cover

Preorder is up, book goes live on the 23rd of December.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPY4JHGY

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A heads up about previews

Okay folks a bit of an early warning.
Preview chapters will suspend for the month after AL4 publishes.
I was looking at January 1st for publication, but looks like I'll bump that up some. At the moment it might be just before Christmas. That'll help when you have to deal with family, and you don't want to. It'd also be a great way to spend gift cards.
Because of that the last week or so of December won't have chapters.
We'll pick up preview chapters in January for LV9: Blessed Nat...

AR9 Audio is out

Here you go audio for Aether's Revival 9: Empire's Orders.

AL4 Ch1

Previously…

Zander led his crew through the first-ever mecha tournament, sweeping the top spot in every event. That catapulted Zander, his crew, and Fractured Dreams into becoming household names on MX Hub, but it also generated some bad blood with people who didn’t like the way Zander did things.

It also saw the bookie, Trenton, refusing to pay them; he wasn’t about to let them bankrupt him. However, Trenton made a f...

Heavenly Chaos 2: Fighting Past Pain

Preorder is up, links below.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK2KY5Y9

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https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0D...

8 years published

My 8th year published is coming this October 3rd.

To celebrate this anniversary, I have contest running on Facebook and Discord.

If you'd like to enter, go to the right places and give it a shot.

For those wondering why I'm not also running it here, because I don't want to dance around Patreon's rules on giveaways.

HC2 Ch1

Previously…

Benedict Aaron Rodney had a terrible life for eighteen years. His parents were dead, leaving him with his uncle, Skippy Rodney. Skippy was a bust-out drunk who could barely take care of himself. Given a child he didn’t want, he took out the anger he had against the Heavens on the child.

If that wasn’t enough, things got worse for Benedict. His one-time friends got tired of him and made him a target of th...

Aether's Revival 9: Empire's Orders

Here is the cover and it's up for preorder, because I'll be at DragonCon then possibly too sick to launch the book normally.
Amazon.com: Empire's Orders (Aether's Revival Book 9) eBook : Schinhofen, Daniel: Kindle Store

Preorder of AL3 audio.

We have a preorder for AL3 with a release on 9-10.